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Our word-of-mouth, eco-friendly green game plan is to support sportspeople from the tip of South West England to the top of South Wales, young and old, male and female, grassroots participants to Olympians and Paralympians.

We are a pro-active team with one goal: winning promotion for regional sport.

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Bath forward Ewan Richards gets first England call

Details: Created on Monday, 23 May 2022 07:07; Last Updated on Monday, 13 June 2022 22:21; Published on Monday, 23 May 2022 07:07; Written by CATHERINE STEWART England Rugby

Bath versatile forward Ewan Richards has been called up for his first involvement in a senior men’s England Rugby camp along with Saracens’ Nick Isiekwe and Gloucester’s Jack Singleton.

Three players have withdrawn from this week’s England men’s training camp.

Oxfordshire win National Counties T20 Trophy at Tring

Details: Created on Sunday, 22 May 2022 22:31; Last Updated on Sunday, 22 May 2022 22:34; Published on Sunday, 22 May 2022 22:31; Written by PAUL BOLTON National Counties Cricket correspondent

Oxfordshire added the National Counties T20 title to the three-day National Counties Championship they won last September with a thrilling two wickets win over Cambridgeshire in a tense final at Tring Park.

A superb 84 from Harrison Ward, one of five homegrown players who are now contracted to first-class counties in Oxfordshire’s side, got them most of the way to a target of 170 – the highest score of Finals Day.

CRICKET National Counties T20 finals day preview

Details: Created on Sunday, 22 May 2022 05:29; Last Updated on Saturday, 04 June 2022 19:12; Published on Sunday, 22 May 2022 05:29; Written by PAUL BOLTON National Counties Cricket correspondent

Oxfordshire captain Jonny Cater is looking forward to being back in familiar surroundings for National Counties T20 Finals Day at Tring Park today.

It was at Tring that Oxfordshire won the National Counties Championship last September when they beat Suffolk in the final and they go back there to face Cheshire in the first semi-final on Sunday (10am) with Dorset facing Cambridgeshire in the second match at 1.30pm.

TEAM BATH SWIMMING Magnificent seven added to squad

Details: Created on Thursday, 12 May 2022 07:07; Last Updated on Thursday, 12 May 2022 15:23; Published on Thursday, 12 May 2022 07:07; Written by NEIL ROSE at Matchtight

Seven more University of Bath-based swimmers, including Olympic gold-medallists James Guy and Freya Anderson, have been added to the Team England squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Holly Hibbott, Ed Mildred, Jacob Peters, Luke Turley and Brodie Williams are also among the 38 swimmers confirmed today as joining the previously-selected Tom Dean and Ben Proud in the home team for this summer’s Games.

NATIONAL COUNTIES T20 semi-finals line-up

Details: Created on Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:50; Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:40; Published on Wednesday, 04 May 2022 15:50; Written by PAUL BOLTON National Counties Cricket correspondent

Oxfordshire will face Cheshire in the opening semi-final at National Counties T20 Finals Day at Tring Park CC on Sunday May 22.

The first semi-final will start at 10am with the second between Dorset and Cambridgeshire at 1.30pm followed by the final at 4pm.