by Steve Hill | Jun 20, 2023 | General
LIAM Ward will make his cricketing debut for the England and Wales Transplant XI at Rockhampton on Sunday … just over a year after receiving a new kidney. The 30-year-old, from Kingsway in Gloucester, has made a strong recovery from life-changing surgery at...
by Steve Hill | Jun 20, 2023 | General
FROCESTER’S John Evans has been named as captain of the England Over 70 squad for three one-day internationals in August against Australia with Gloucestershire team-mate Nigel Belletty also selected as wicketkeeper. Evans, aged 71, pictured left, already has three...
by Steve Hill | Jun 19, 2023 | General
OLDLANDS ended a run of five successive defeats and moved off the bottom of Division Five of the AMS Gloucestershire County League with a tremendous nine-wicket victory away to fellow strugglers Birdlip & Brimpsfield. The home side reached 157 all out after losing...
by Steve Hill | Jun 19, 2023 | League & Cup
GORDON Leeks compiled his second century of the summer for leaders Stoke Bishop who trumped Backwell Flax Bourton 2nds by 60 runs in Division Ten of the Martin Berrill Sports Bristol & District League. The opener cracked 127 off 103 (16 fours, five sixes) to help...
by Steve Hill | Jun 19, 2023 | League & Cup
WILL Faulkner finished with fine figures of 6-45 from ten as Bourton Vale inflicted a first defeat of the summer on leaders Tewkesbury, closing out a tense three-run home triumph in WEPL’s Gloucestershire division. Bourton Vale battled their way to 126 all out after...