OCs take on School inTwenty20 contest

It might not be to the liking of purists, but the OC-School match on Speech Day in 2009 will be a Twenty20 contest with both sides likely to be in coloured kit. To mutterings of “over my dead body” from the club’s leading wicket-taker, the move was approved at the AGM and was warmly received by those members of the School XI present. Given the dismal performances at the Sarasota Sixes, practice will be needed by the OCs.

The more traditional all-day game will still be played a week later, the last match of the School’s short end-of-term festival on the Friday before the OC cricket week. With plans for a veterans match against Hambledon on the Saturday being looked at, it will extend the week to ten days.