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• AVCC v Keevil
  25 September 2016

  Well, I thought I would let the autumnal weather kick in before doing the final match report of the season…giving you something to miss, besides cricket, for a good few months. Today’s offering will warm your heart, lift your spirits and make you dream of leather on willow until Spring’s rays warm us again. Indeed, many records have been broken! Read on.

• Urchfont v AVCC
  11 September 2016

  With autumn closing in, but the last vestiges of blue skies and fluffy white clouds around, AVCC arrived at Urchfont, with just 10 men to face the mighty Urchfont. Good lads, but this time well reinforced with 1st teamers who were competitive, young and very keen.

• Collingbourne v AVCC
  4 September 2016

  Wow…a match report at long last. Well I’ve been sulking since the gripes from Avebury, but I couldn’t let the last match pass without recording sterling tales of daring-do. The feats are worth recording and reading.

• AVCC v Burbage
  14 August 2016

  Well, that'll teach me to check emails before leaving to play!

• AVCC v Avebury
  6 July 2016

  AVCC took the field in what has become unfortunately our trademark (without 11 cricketers).

• AVCC v Bishops Cannings
  26 June 2016

  On a dull, rainy day, we welcomed a new fixture - Bishops Cannings - at Rushall.

• AVCC vs Collingbourne (20/20)
  23 June 2016

  Well despite the floods and heavy rains blanketing most of the country, our game went ahead at home on Thursday evening vs our nearby friends of Collingbourne. Pitch was green, skies were grey and heavy, and rain threatened. We were voting for Brexit that day and so it was a day of great portent, much debate and history (although the author had wisely voted weeks before by postal vote).

• Avebury vs AVCC
  5 June 2016

  Summer arrived and off we went to Avebury’s picturesque ground alongside the pre-historic landscape of man’s greater designs from long before even Dudley and I took up willow in our hands.

• AVCC v Collingbourne
  2 June 2016

  Well, another cold, windy night and we arrived at Collingbourne for a 20/20 game. Long grassy outfield, undulating track and a new look AVCC.

• Chitterne vs AVCC
  23 May 2016

  Braving the showers of a typical British Sunday, we took on the good gentlemen of Chitterne.

• AVCC v Marden
  15 May 2016

  Well the sun shone, for a worthy cause. Remembering Richard Cox, a good friend of many in Upavon and Marden, who passed away in 2000. This match is a charity match, with all match fees, fines and donations going to his favourite charity - the Wiltshire Air Ambulance, and all prizes being handed out by his widow, Mary who attended the game with a number of friends.

• Poulshot v AVCC
  11 May 2016

  With the heavy rain that fell in Wiltshire yesterday it was debatable whether we would get a game or not; but as the start of play grew closer the clouds decide to stop dropping rain in the area of Poulshot.

• Aldbourne v AVCC
  8 May 2016

  Wow...what a scorcher this Sunday turned out to be. Felt like summer had arrived finally. Felt like a day for daring deeds and cricket.

• FOSS v AVCC (20/20)
  3 May 2016

  Well it finally happened… the sun was shining, and with no practice sessions behind us, we turned up for our first fixture of the season to face the Friends of Stonehenge School (FOSS) at the new Centenary Pavilion Ground in Amesbury. A new venue for us, and a new fixture. It was a 20/20 match, and so high excitement beckoned.