Sports in Kenilworth

Second half goals for Luke Steer and Taylor Blyth were enough to keep all three points at Gypsy Lane as Kenilworth Sporting registered their first win of the season.

After back to back home defeats, Sporting needed a result against travelling Hampton to get their Midland Football League Division Two season off the mark.

Nineteen different Kenilworth Runners successfully completed the Solihull Half Marathon last Sunday (August 15), with only Knowle and Dorridge Runners sending more members (21).

Jason Bennett was the first of 1,076 runners to cross the finish line, completing the course in 1:12:20. Emma Styles from Nuneaton Harriers was the first female in a time of 1:17:19.

Kenilworth Cricket Club's third XI are poised to claim the Cotswold Hills Cricket League Division Six, despite conceding a five-wicket defeat to Earlswood in their penultimate game of the season.

KCC continue to sit in top spot, eight points away from league victory with just one game remaining.

Kenilworth Sporting is inviting former players of the club's predecessors to join in a reunion for the team's bank holiday Monday fixture.

The club's committee wants anyone who played for Kenilworth Rangers or Kenilworth Town before 2000 to come down to Gypsy Lane for the club's fifth game of the season, against Boldmere Sports on Monday, August 30.

The details of road closures for the Kenilworth Half Marathon 2021 have been announced by Warwickshire County Council.

The Kenilworth Half Marathon will take place on Sunday, September 12, marking a return to the race after the cancelled event in 2020.

Despite three centuries posted by the two sides, Standard recovered from 13 for three to post 253 and claim a draw with Kenilworth Cricket Club in the Warwickshire Cricket League Division One this weekend.

Thomas Kidd posted 114 and James Searle 113 not out as the pair put on 217 for the side's fourth wicket.

Another slow start saw Kenilworth Sporting 2-0 down inside nine minutes to promotion hopefuls Coton Green at Gypsy Lane yesterday afternoon.

The Tamworth-based side then went on to win 3-2 leaving Sporting still wanting for their first win in the Midland Football League Division Two this season.

Three goals in the last six minutes saw Racing Club Warwick's Under 23's come from behind to beat Kenilworth Wardens 4-3 on their new 4G home pitch this Saturday.

The teams were at different stages of their preseason, with this being Racing's last match before competitive football resumes and Kenilworth Wardens starting their first friendly of the summer.

Four wickets from Tommy Rex and Nick Seagar's blazing unbeaten 84 hurried Kenilworth Wardens to an eight wicket win at Oswestry this Saturday.

The 18-year-old seamer sent Warwickshire's 2nd XI selectors yet another reminder by taking his seasonal wickets tally to 34 courtesy of the superb return of 4-27.

Kenilworth Wardens' Glasshouse Park home next week plays host to the Archway Bathrooms Floodlit Twenty20 Cup.

Birmingham Premier League Division Two Dorridge defend the title they lifted in 2019 prior to the Covid outbreak causing last year's competition to be cancelled.