The Village Cup like much other cricket has been disrupted by weather and many of the games scheduled for last Sunday will try again this week. The competition has reached the round of 32 and ties are divided into four regional zones.
In the Midlands two out of four matches were completed and the teams going through to the last 16 are Dumbleton, a Worcestershire based club who play their Saturday cricket in the Gloucestershire Division of West of England Premier League and Milford Hall from Staffordshire with wins over Newton Linford and Elvaston respectively.
Dumbleton cricket club
The North group has managed to complete only one game with Wakefield outfit Brook-Walton, recovering from the shock have been initially grouped with teams from Lancashire, beating Fairburn by four wickets. Longest journey in the remaining matches is for Hawk Green from near Stockport who travel to meet Scottish winners Freuchie in the Kingdom of Fife, a round trip of almost 550 miles.
The South East fared best with the weather and all four ties reached a definite outcome. Winners were Reed from Hertfordshire who beat West Sussex club Findon by three wickets, Sibton Park (Kent) were easy winners against Frensham from Surrey, 7 wickets the margin here, Dinton from Buckinghamshire saw off Bentley from the Mid Essex League by three wickets and in perhaps the game of the round so far, Mayfield CC from East Sussex knocked out last year's beaten finalists Foxton from Cambridgeshire, only three runs separating the two sides at stumps.
Finally in the South West 75% of games were finished only Rockhampton v Miskin Manor remaining to be settled. The three completed games resulted in easy wins for Cookham Dene, from near Maidenhead, ten wickets against Roche, Hambledon once considered the most powerful club in the country managed only 83 against Oxfordshire's Shipton Under Wychwood to go down by 8 wickets, and Timsbury from Somerset who were all out for 80 lost to Goatacre, a Wiltshire club who invariably are prominent in the competition and who lost only one wicket in chasing that score down.
Broadhalfpenny Down home of the original Hambledon club
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