.... Bodicote VIII perform heroics but narrowly fail to take Beaujolais Golf trophy, see report in News section .... Indoor Fixtures added to Indoor/Midweek section ....

Bodicote Cricket Club is based in the village of Bodicote, just South of Banbury in North Oxfordshire.

We run two Saturday teams that play in the South Northants Cricket League, a very well run league which has attracted teams from Milton Keynes to South Warwickshire. After a highly successful 2007 season that saw both 1st & 2nd XIs champions of their respective divisions, the teams played in the Premier Division and Division Three in 2008. Both teams found the going a lot tougher and were at the wrong end of the table all season but avoided relegation thanks to some gritty performances at the death. In addition we run a Wednesday evening side that play in the Brackley & District Midweek League. Midweek practice is held on Tuesday evenings, 6.15 pm at Bodicote's "other" club, Banbury CC which can be found just over the hedge. After a couple of years' sabbatical we have returned to our spiritual home, The Plough for post match entertainment and earlier in the day splendid teas we are promised to live up to the standard provided by previous tenants Pete and Michelle.

Our home ground is Kingsfield in White Post Road where cricket has been played since before the Second World War. The field was bequeathed to the village in the early 1960s and is managed, along with the village hall, by the Bodicote Welfare Fund.

As well as regular fixtures the club also organises a number of social events during the year including a long running Beaujolais Golf Challenge against Grendon Underwood CC each November. We also tour annually and through this have ensured the club appears in cricket's bible Wisden - see page 911 of the 1994 edition which notes we lost to Elizabeth College Guernsey in June 1993.

If you would like to join our club please contact info@bodicote.com

OFFICERS 2009

President - Jim Blencowe,
Vice Presidents - David Barlow, Jim Blencowe Jnr, Geoff Ellacott, Derek McCulloch, Cyril Parfitt, Brian Riley, Reg Tipping, George Walker, Eric Woodruff
Chairman - Stephen Barlow
General Secretary - Steve Harris
Treasurer - Mark Smith
100 Club Organiser - Dave Cronin
1st XI Captain - Chris Buckingham
2nd XI Captain – Jay Watts
Midweek Captain – Paul Boulton