Ali Hood reports on a day of sunshine and good golf: It was pretty much perfect conditions at Thornbury with soft, receptive greens, no wind & the sun shining which was reflected in some very good scoring generally – although the recent course maintenance on the par 3 made the greens something of a lottery We had
Barrow Gurney’s season ended last Sunday in traditional style at the Double Wicket Competition. A beautiful sunny autumn day saw 9 teams of two battle it out in 6 over segments with teams earning points for runs scored, wickets, catches and stumpings taken but with points being lost for wickets lost and catches dropped or
Barrow Gurney CC has published its final First Team Batting averages. Mark Brown tops the batting averages for the First Team after an outstanding season. First Team Batting Averages Rank Player GAMES INNS NOT OUTS RUNS HIGH SCORE AVG 50s 100s STRIKE RATE 1 Mark Brown 10 10 3 453 105 64.71 3 1 100.24
There was an end of term feeling surrounding the final league weekend as Barrow Gurney ended in style with both teams recording good wins. The first team were away at Timsbury and decided to take part in a football shirt challenge to celebrate the end of season, and also the final match of Frank Forge’s
Barrow Gurney’s promotion hopes ended after yet another game settled by the barest of margins. Barrow and Frenchay 2s were in a direct fight for the second promotion place in Division 5 and Frenchay were the visitors at Hobbs Lane on Saturday. Put into bat, Frenchay’s Isaac Stell started positively, and despite an early strike
Barrow Gurney came out on the wrong side of another close game at Abbots Leigh last Saturday. Batting first Barrow lost 3 early wickets before opening bat Kieran Owen found some good support from Ed Holdaway (28) in a fifty partnership. Owen batted almost throughout the innings being run out in an effort to
Barrow Gurney First XI returned to form with a convincing 8 wicket win over Brislington 3rd XI at Hobbs Lane to put them in equal second place in B&D Division 5. Asked to field in searing heat, and missing a couple of regular bowlers, Barrow’s attack stepped up to put the visitors under pressure immediately
A disappointing performance by Barrow Gurney 1st XI saw them lose to Pucklechurch Firsts and drop out of the automatic promotion places in Division 5 of the Bristol & District League. Pucklechurch, batting first, set out at a blistering pace with their openers putting on 48 in no time, but Mark Fisher pegged them back
Barrow Gurney First XI lost their encounter with Bristol Sri Lankans in their top of the table clash in Division 5 of the Bristol & District League. Barrow put the Sri Lankans into bat and had some early success reducing the visitors to 57-3. But then Amarajeewa Krupa Mudiyanselagae set about using the short boundaries
Barrow Gurney Firsts were involved in another thrilling match last Saturday as they ventured to Hanham to play their 2nd XI. Acting captain Ed Holdaway was pleased to win the toss on finding a damp pitch so he inserted the hosts. The pitch and the large boundaries made scoring difficult, and the home team had
