Aston Manor’s under 11s brushed aside Walmley to win the West Midlands Cup and bring home Manors’ first trophy for the season.  The young squirrels, having finished runners up in the league, outshone the home side courtesy of disciplined bowling, excellent fielding/wicket-keeping and batting of the highest calibre the supporters have ever seen.

Walmley laboured to [...]

Manors inconsistent season came to an end with another narrow defeat against already promoted Wombourne in a low scoring game on a difficult Church Road wicket.
After the loss of two very early wickets Peter Evans (26), Chris Whittock (22) and Andrew Forman (19) batted sensibly to try and get the hosts a foothold in the [...]

On a cold blustery day, skipper Evans won the toss and ask the hosts to bat, in a game they needed to win. Manor started well with the impressive Haider (3-30) picking up 3 top order wickets. The middle order rallied, and started accumulating runs. Manor handed a debut to youngster Shaun Carroll (0-28), and [...]

With a heavily depleted team Manor won the toss again and opted to bat first, and the decision appeared to be justified following a splendid opening partnership between Imran Jamiel (53) and Chris Whittock (35). Peter Evans (51no) and Shozab Haider (22no) gave the latter part of the innings some good impetus with an exciting [...]

On a warm day at Church Road, skipper Evans won the toss and decided to have a bowl on what looked another cracking track. And thats what it proved to be as the batsmen progressed, albeit it slowly, with relative ease. The spinners Evans (17-3-57-1) and 15 year old Nabeel Asghar (17-1-78-4) bowled the lions [...]