Author: Barry Aitken

A Huge Win at Millfield

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The team travelled to Street in Somerset today to play Millfield School 1st XI. What we met was a sort of hybrid XI with some Meyers XI, some of their 1sts, some 2nds and 4 1st XI girl players. It’s a marvellous ground with a good wicket and having been put

A Draw at Marlborough College.

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“The Queries returned on Thursday for their popular fixture against Marlborough College. The setting was even more spectacular, given the beautiful weather - and the College XI were already in full prep as we trickled in… Well, 10 of the team did - which, after a few frantic and ultimately

Loss number 2

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In the third T20 of the opening matches of tis seaosn, we came second again: this time by 5 runs in a low-scoring match with Devizes CC. Simon Campbell writes: We had a good game at Devizes this evening, - a game of two halves. Devizes

The First Win of 2025

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In the second T20 of the season, Queries played South Wilts CC in Salisbury and won by 31 runs. Posting 166 for 7, with Jack Bramwell scoring 51 (retired out) and Ben Sutthery 43, they confined South Wilts to 135 for 4 with Cooper Websetr taking 2 for 32

Queries lose their opening encounter of 2025

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First game of the season this evening and Wiltshire Queries went down by 6 wickets and 1.4 overs to Erlestoke CC at the Walled Garden. We made 143 for 5 off 20, and Erlestoke chased it down at a canter. James Illingworth (37) and Thomas Whiting (19) had a good

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

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We send Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas followed by a Happy and Healthy New Year to all our members, candidates and friends, with the hope that your cricket in 2025 will be enjoyable, skilled , full of boundaries and wickets and fun.

Back in the Day

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Now that umpiring tasks for the 2024 season have come to an end, Barry A was looking for something for his idle hands to do, in addition to hitting golf balls. Whilst all of the Queries 'modern' results and score cards can be seen on the play-cricket.com website, all the

All in All, a Good Season

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2024 was noted for the amount of bad weather experienced across the cricket season, however contrary to preconceptions, the Queries only had 2fixtures cancelled. You can see the detail of all the results on the Fixtures and Results table on this website or you can check them out on

The Final Result is a Win

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While we are waiting for the match report to materialise, here are a few photos from the Frogs match which we won by 66 runs, thanks mainly to a fine 70 runs scored by George Elliott and a super 86 runs scored by Edd Sutthery. We declared on 247 for