Both Manors Saturday and Sunday 1st XI teams suffered frustration with the wonderful British weather over the weekend.
The Saturday 1st XI match away at Eastnor was called off without a ball being bowled, and with other sides in the relegation battle gaining positive results, Manors plight at the foot of the table was increased.
The Sunday [...]

When the large Sunday gathering of social members at Aston Manor spend their evening predominantly discussing the Cricket match they have just seen, then you know you have been privileged to have watched something very special. The best game I have ever seen was a comment heard on more than one occasion.
So what actually [...]

The glorious weather, and free Samosas (thanks to Johnny Paige), ensured a massive crowd enjoyed a great game of cricket at Church Road on Sunday as Woodys Wanderers kept up their hopes of gaining a first ever Lichfield League Premier title with an exciting win against an impressive young Tamworth side.
The visitors opted to bat [...]

1st XI Birmingham League Division Two
Aston Manor 124 all out
Halesowen 125-1
Halesowen won by 9 wickets
Manor suffered a disappointing and frustrating Bank Holiday weekend losing away at Halesowen on Saturday, and after travelling to Stratford on Monday, returned to Birmingham without a ball being bowled in an abandoned game.
After being asked to bat first Manor got [...]

Aston Manor started their outdoor preparations for the 2011 season with a 6 wicket defeat against Marston Green at Church Road on Saturday.
A young and inexperienced home side were dismissed for a disappointing 157 although Darren Baker (34), Andrew Forman (30), Peter Evans (27) and Shozab Haider (25) all showed some early season promise with [...]

1st XI Birmingham League Division Two
Aston Manor 144 all out
Evesham 145-0
EVESHAM WON BY 10 WICKETS
A heavy defeat away at table topping Evesham has left Aston Manor in serious relegation trouble with only four games remaining.
In a rain restricted match, Manor was asked to bat first and was soon in trouble at 31-3 despite some encouraging [...]

1st XI Birmingham League Division Two
Tamworth 227-6
Aston Manor 190-8
MATCH DRAWN
Aston Manor missed the opportunity to move away from the relegation battle as Tamworth had the better of a drawn away match on Saturday.
A fine innings from Neil Orton (96) was the mainstay of Tamworths total, but he and his colleagues were assisted by several dropped [...]

Manor recorded a welcome 6 wicket victory in their Lichfield League Division One match at Church Road against Tamworth on Sunday.
Manors young bowlers performed admirably against a strong batting line up to contain the visitors to 254-6 from their 40 overs. Adam Rana and Rikki Bassi in particular bowled well with debutant Patrick Knott showing [...]

1st XI Birmingham League Division Two
Saturday
Aston Manor 139-7 (28 overs)
Water Orton 140-3
WATER ORTON WIN BY 7 WICKETS
On Saturday, at a wet Church Road, Manor were again unlucky in losing an important toss and were asked to bat first in a match restricted to 28 overs per side. However, despite a late flurry of wickets, the [...]

Aston Manor Sunday 1st XI have got off to a mixed start in their Lichfield League season having already beaten Whittington at Church Road, they then lost a high scoring affair away at Wednesbury this Sunday.
In the earlier match at home to Whittington, under the expert captaincy of Chris Brearley Wooding, the Squirrels were bowled [...]