GROUP champions last year, Exhall and Wixford will start their campaign in the National Village Championship with a trip to Kineton on Sunday, May 26.

Kineton overcame Thorpe Arnold by 64 runs last weekend in the Leicestershire and Warwick-shire group. Elsewhere, Overbury lost to Cookley and Elmley Castle fell to Chaddesley Corbett despite Simon Cooper claiming a hat-trick in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Powys matches.