Bernard Tollett Oxfordshire Cup

THAME Town face a tricky trip to last season’s OCA champions, East Oxford, in the first round on Tuesday, May 21.

Shipton-under-Wychwood, who like Thame were relegated from the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League last season, are also on the road at Charlbury.

Great & Little Tew, last year’s Cherwell League champions, visit Division 5 winners Horley.

Holders Oxford, who also lifted the Wilf Bennett Trophy last year for non-seeded teams, Banbury, Aston Rowant and Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondescripts receive byes to the second round – having reached the last four in 2012.

Challow & Childrey, Horspath, Oxenford and Tiddington also have byes.

However, a change to the rules means the double achieved by Oxford last year and by Shipton in 2011 will no longer be possible with the Wilf Bennett Trophy now for first and second-round losers.

That competition will start on June 18.

BERNARD TOLLETT OXFORDSHIRE CUP DRAW

1st round: East Oxford v Thame Town, Bicester & North Oxford v Cropredy, Witney Mills v Faringdon, Didcot v Hanborough, Oxford Downs v Abingdon Vale, Cumnor v Kingston Bagpuize, Horley v Great & Little Tew, Charlbury v Shipton-under-Wychwood. Byes: Tiddington, Horspath, Oxenford, Challow & Childrey, Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondescripts, Aston Rowant, Oxford, Banbury.