Yorkshire Tour Scorecard: Queries vs Yorkshire Gents CC

Wiltshire Queries CC v Yorkshire Gents CC Played on:   26th July 2021 At:   Escrick Toss won by Queries who elected to bat first Result:  Queries won by34 runs 1st Innings:  Queries  2nd Innings:   YGs 1 Tom Shaw * b Elliott C 0 1 D O’Kelly ct Bromley+, b Fry 1 2 George Elliott + Retired out 101 2 JA Dale ct Bromley, b Grant 25 3 Simon Campbell b Elliott C 5 3 G Barker ct Grant,

Yorkshire Tour at a Glance

The Yorkshire Tour party has returned. They played and won 2 matches: lost a T20 match: and sadly had one of the matches abandoned as a draw after the heavens opened. Match 1 (declaration) vs Yorkshire Gents CC.  This is an "old favourite fixture" of a Yorkshire tour.  We won the toss,

Sadly a Fixture Cancellation

Disappointingly today's fixture against an Army Masters XI arranged by Edd Sutthery has had to be cancelled because yesterday 5 of the opposition proved positive when Covid tested, and it has not been possible in the time available to replace these players. Thanks to all those Queries who volunteered to play

An Emphatic Win Today

Despite all sorts of Covid and other challenges, James Williams still managed to assemble a strong XI at Dauntsey's School to play the Headley Old Freemen's XI. HOF inserted the Queries on a track that was not going to be easy to master. It was a 50 over match.  Our first

Back to our Winning Ways at Larkhill

The Queries won the toss and opted to bat first. Ollie Illingworth and Josh Kelly set off slowly against some decent bowling however after Ollie was bowled for 18, guest player Usman Akram and Josh accelerated fast putting on 120 for the second wicket when Josh was caught for an

The first defeat of the Season, at Marlborough College

On paper, David Bromley had assembled a strong XI and so it seemed when the College who won the toss and elected to bat first, was 5 down for 113 at lunch. After lunch however, Queries perhaps took their foot off the pedal and allowed their tail to wag, and

Queries win again, at Dauntsey’s School

Queries notched up another win at Dauntsey's. It was a reasonably comfortable win! The match was played as the annual John Sayer Memorial Match and a MotM award was made after the game. The school won the toss and batted first, were very quickly in trouble, finding it hard to score

A 3rd Win this time at Chilmark CC

Ask any Query who has played Chilmark CC and he will mention the tea: the cricket might have been excellent to so-so, but the teas have stood out in the memories of so many of us and today was no exception: it was absolutely fantastic. See the photos below -