Author: Barry Aitken

Now it is two wins in two matches!

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Queries enjoyed a second win of the season on Friday evening with an 8 wkt win over Erlestoke and Coulston CC. It was a 20 over thrash, ECCC ran up a total of 161 for 4, with Humphrey Hughes and Paul Sullivan taking 2 wickets apiece thanks to excellent catching

2023 Kicks Off with a WIN

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The first fixture of 2023 is a good result for the Queries. We played Monkton Combe School on 11th May and against all the odds, the weather was fine and sunny all day. 35 over game, Queries bowling first and the School, ably led by Matt Garrod, set off well although

Fixtures 2023

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The fixtures card is constantly evolving and being updated by Freddie Coupe and what is shown here is as at 28th April 2023. We still need a couple of match managers. Are you willing to manage one of these matches? Please let us know: we need more folk

The 2022 Season’s Statistics

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In case you have not been to the Queries play-cricket.com website ( https://wiltshirequeries.play-cricket.com/home) where all the detailed stats are, here is a summary of the season's achievements. Played 16, won 8, lost 5, drew 2 and abandoned 1. Three further fixtures were cancelled by the oppositions, and the Yorkshire Tour

Queries Win by the Skin of their Teeth

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There’s cricket, and then there’s Cricket, and then there’s the Queries versus The Frogs! This fixture goes back a long way: we love it: we meet our friends year on year: we have good games. Today was no exception. Not that it felt like that at the start. Queries won the toss

Disappointing Cancellations

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We have been very disappointed to learn that the Marshfield fixture and the South Wilts CC fixture have both been cancelled by the opposition. That leaves us with only one fixture left to play, The Frogs on the 29th August at Tidworth. The records for the 2022 season look like

A Drawn Match at Hinton

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We managed a draw at Hinton Charterhouse today. Gloriously hot day, too hot for some, a lightening outfield, short leg side boundary and a declaration game in prospect. We batted first and reached 110 before the first wicket fell. It was Peter Mountstephen for 41. Then Jack Grant retired when

An Historic Match against the Wiltshire u19s XI

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Today we played an historic match against the Wiltshire u19s XI, at Marlborough College. Both XIs included a lot of talent, there was a Breast Cancer fund raising event riding on the back of it, there was a goodish crowd there to watch, and it was a hot day. Queries

The Incogniti beat us comfortably

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We batted first, and the star of our innings was Dan Pirie who scored a magnificent 120. He reached 50 in 71 balls/75 mins, his century in 116 balls and 128 mins, and hit 20 boundaries in the process. Sadly no-one could stay with him. Only 4 other batters reached

WASHED AWAY AT FARLEY

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Tonight (22nd July) was scheduled to be T20 night vs Farley but the weather had other ideas. We all got there, Queries won the toss and would bat first and Jack Bramwell and Theo Bossom opened. The bowling was lively and the bounce unpredictable, rain was looming, but we got