Goatacre stormed into the next round of the npower Village Cup with a two-wicket victory over Oxfordshire and current national champions Shipton-under-Wychwood.

Goatacre captain Pete Turner won the toss and asked the Shipton side to bat.

Shipton openers Steve Bates and John Hartley put on 32 runs in the first six overs before Jif Wilkins hung on to a well-struck drive in the covers at the second attempt to dismiss Bates for 11 off the bowling of Adam Iles.

The first bowling change was made by Turner in the ninth over when seamer Rhan Heer replaced Iles.

Hartley welcomed him into the attack with two sixes from his first four balls.

Veteran Kevin Iles delighted the 200-strong home crowd with a wicket with the first ball of his spell to dismiss the dangerous Hartley for 48.

Shipton's third wicket fell in the 19th over when Simon Hole fell victim to the off spin of Iles for 15. This brought together Jason Constable and Andy Hemming and they proceeded to move the score along at a brisk pace.

Shipton's fourth wicket partnership added 87 before Constable attempted a pull shot off Heer which found the safe hands of Steve Gee patrolling the square leg boundary.

Hemmings (34) failed to clear the long off boundary and found the hands of Adam Iles off Heer's bowling and the very next ball Heer bowled Lewis for six. Heer's final over saw him trap Phil Garner lbw for four to return 5-50.

The Goatacre bowlers and fielders had pegged back the Shipton total to 231-9 with only 43 runs being scored in the last 10 overs for the loss of five wickets.

Steve Gee and Rob Turner opened the innings for Goatacre and took the score to 11 before Gee was caught by Shane Duff off Panter for one.

As the rain started to fall so did another Goatacre wicket with Turner caught at midoff by Sean Miller off Nick Goucher for nine.

Persistent rain then forced the players off and the covers on for a delay of 48 minutes. When play resumed, the first over after the break saw 11 runs added to the total including two fours off the bat of Jif Wilkins now at the crease with Scott Curwood.

The partnership did not last long as Curwood gave a thick outside edge to Duff behind the stumps of the bowling of Panter for one.

Goatacre captain Turner then joined Wilkins at the crease and they moved the score along to 45 before Wilkins edged Panter to wicket keeper Duff for 16.

At 46-4 in the 11th over Goatacre had handed the initiative to Shipton but boundaries from the bat of Turner and Kevin Iles started to make inroads into the Shipton target.

Between the 15th and the 25th over while Turner hit eight boundaries including three sixes, Iles scored 13 off 38 balls.

Turner completed his 50 in the 23rd over. In the 26th over Miller came back on for a second spell and immediately tempted Iles (22) into a false shot which ended a fine 79-run partnership.

Goatacre required exactly eight an over off the last 10 overs and John Wilkins joined 18-year-old son Ed at the crease.

Excellent batting by Ed and sensible support from father John kept the runs flowing but 53 runs were still needed off the last six overs.

Constable came back for a second spell, but with Ed Wilkins hitting two fours off the first two balls of the over and John Wilkins hitting a six off the last, the over cost Shipton 15 runs.

More importantly it left 20 runs needed off three overs for a Goatacre victory.

Ed Wilkins then played one attacking shot too many and was bowled by Constable for 58. The father and son partnership added 73 runs for the eighth wicket.

Wilkins proceeded to hit the last two balls of Constable's over for two sixes high over the nursing home and the last one into Goatacre Lane.

With only two runs needed off six balls the game was now in Goatacre's hands and Adam Iles made sure of a famous victory by turning a full toss from the first ball to backward square for four.

Goatacre are now three games from Lord's and play the Cornish champions Werrington at home on Sunday, July 11 for a place in the quarter-finals.