Banbury Twenty will have to wait on a decision from the Home Counties League before discovering whether they will get the green light to step up into the Western Feeder League next season.

The newly-crowned Classic Press Cherwell League champions are keen to take up their place alongside the likes of Oxford and Henley.

But club chairman Steve Partington admitted there were doubts about whether they would meet the criteria.

He said: "I believe that if they are going to start applying all the criteria we might have one or two problems. We want to go up and we have got to speak to the players about it.

"But you have got to run a third team and at the moment we don't. It would be very difficult to set up in eight months. It is not something that you can do at the drop of a hat.

"I think the youth side of it is all in place, although we might be short at the top end with an under 17s team."

Twenty also have ambitious plans off the field with their old clubhouse being demolished this week to be replaced by a new pavilion at a cost of more than 250,000.

Partington said that the money was in place for this project, and they were also awaiting a Lottery grant to go ahead with an exciting development to construct a new sports hall.

"That is something we thought was needed in the area," he said. "The idea is that it would be there to be used as a cricket centre.

"The Oxfordshire Cricket Board are interested in having it as a north of the county facility and it would also be used for aerobics, badminton and five-a-side football."