Barrow Gurney bounced back after last week with 2 good wins on Saturday. At Hobbs Lane the First XI were in action against the Bristol Lions. Batting first on a beautiful day, Barrow lost an early wicket but then began to build good partnerships. Bernie Forge (40) and Mark Brown (23) put on 55 for
Barrow Gurney’s spring golf day which was delayed due to the Covid lockdown finally took place last week at Thornbury Golf Club. 16 Barrow players past and present gathered for 18 holes on the Par 3 course followed by an after lunch 18 holes on the full course. Sam Turner took the honours on the
Bernie Forge, Barrow’s First team opener and wicket keeper, hit another century (101) for Bridgwater Ladies in the Vitality ECB Club T20 championship on Sunday to take them through to the regional finals. This was her 2nd century for Bridgwater having helped them to the Vitality ECB Plate in 2018. Bernie was the first woman
Barrow Gurney had a disappointing weekend with losses for all its 3 teams. The First XI endured a frustrating encounter with Abbots Leigh, where the home side made 145 all out in the face of some good bowling from Kieran Owen (3/41), Frank Forge (2/20) and Ed Holdaway (2/22). Barrow’s batters found it hard going
Barrow 2s tasted a first success of the season at Patchway where a slow pitch made batting tricky. Opener Mark Gracey (48) led the way with good judgement of what to defend or attack, and after some early scares at the other end, he eventually found good support in Peter Rooney (27) and David Smith
Barrow Gurney First XI enjoyed a double success last week after winning their opening round of the Batman T20 cup before completing a league win over Hanham 2s on Saturday. In the cup, Barrow travelled to near neighbours Abbots Leigh and put the home team in on a slow surface after the recent rain. Accurate
Barrow Gurney’s season, like that of so many other clubs, has stalled due to the unseasonal weather, with all games rained off for the last two weekends without a ball being bowled. However the club’s friendly T20 season was able to get off to an exciting start last week during a brief dry spell. Barrow
Barrow Gurney defied the weather on Saturday to play and win their game against Claverham 2nd XI at Hobbs Lane. Batting first in gloomy but dry conditions Bernie Forge and Phil Milton put on a solid 50 opening partnership, before a couple of quick wickets set the home team back. Phil though, having enjoyed a
Rain intervened to spoil Barrow Gurney’s 1st XI game this Saturday, preventing the team chasing down a small total away at Chilcompton. Meanwhile although the weather was brighter at Hobbs Lane, the 2ndXI suffered a sizeable defeat, leaving it to the Sunday XI to chalk up the club’s first league victory of the season with
Barrow Gurney completed their pre-season preparations with two enjoyable games this weekend. Saturday’s game against Blagdon ended in tie after the visitors scored only 2 of the 3 runs they needed off the last ball, whilst Sunday’s game against Axbridge was a little less tense after some fine early batting by Barrow’s opponents, was more
