Category: news
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2014 Tour Balances & Nosh
Our esteemed Tour Secretary writes: Gentlemen, As Mr Blue Sky is living here today I thought I’d send out the first request for tour balances. Those of you staying for three nights need to pay £115, two nights £80 and one night £45. The more astute of you will have noticed that I’m asking for…
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Hare’s on the up…
From our man in the field (well on the edge of it): “Ashorne 129 for 9, Barford 130 for 8 A simply gorgeous summer’s day at Ashorne ended in a tight victory for The Hares by two wickets, with two Barfordians – Sandy and Simon Morgan (who managed to get lost on the 3 mile…
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Morgan gets Barford’s 2014 season well and truly under way…
..with two barnstorming Sunday losses against Marton and Kineton! But never mind, we got to see Barford’s newest opener, Simon Morgan, refusing to leave anything in the locker in getting his 9 runs against a youthful Kineton. But no-one picked his total in the sweepstake, so it’s a rollover… Watch as his magnificent strokes almost…
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2014 Pre-season Party
Well, doesn’t time fly? We’ve only just recovered from the winter deluge and polished off the last of the Christmas cake and it’s time to start playing cricket again. Personally I think you’d be wise to take the lead of some our elder statesmen who wouldn’t dream of being seen in whites, let alone playing…
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Bragging Rights
It’s not often we get the chance to “blow our own trumpet” as it were, especially given the usual levels of performance on the cricket field, but this weekend’s “Sunday Times top 100 places to live in the UK” has afforded just such an opportunity. Barford has crashed through into the top 100 for the…
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Quiz Night Update
A potentially chaotic evening, thanks to the mysterious disappearance of the Social Secretary and the apparently unrelated double-booking of the Secretary, was thankfully avoided as a roomful of quizzers had their grey cells exercised by urbane Quiz Master Martin Lusby. In the end it was “alright on the night”, as the “Moonies” resumed their winning…
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Quiz Night – Saturday 8th March
After a break of 17 months to allow the social calendar to be optimally rearranged, the Annual Quiz Night returns to Barford village hall on Saturday 8th of March at 7pm. Your genial quiz-master for the evening will be super sub captain and legendary ex-Treasurer Martin Lusby. Please ensure you inscribe the date in your…
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Nets and coaching 2014
It’s the new year and therefore time to begin the annual process of transforming from a shower of hapless fatties into an elite cricketing machine. In the hope of keeping numbers up, we’ve changed the format a little this year so that we don’t have both nets and coaching running at the same time. We…
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Christmas Drinks – Thursday 19th December
The plaintive cry for Christmas drinks has gone out from the Fixtures Secretary eager to share his views on everyone and everything (he’s probably suffering from sledging withdrawal symptoms after missing the recent Curry Night). This might conceivably incorporate the “Sandy Peirson Memorial Cyclo-Cross Drunken Bike Ride Event”, although other forms of transport are also…