Horspath must replay their Voneus Village Cup sixth-round tie against Grampound Road in Cornwall next Sunday after the match at the Recreation Ground was washed out with the Oxfordshire champions having posted 179.
Torrential rain cascaded down for 35 minutes during the tea interval of the last-16 contest on the road to Lord's, leaving the ground saturated with standing water in places.
After Sunday's downpour finally ceased the Rec was bathed in bright sunshine, but the damage had been done and with the ground unfit for play, umpires Bob Chamberlain and David Scott abandoned the match shortly before 5.30pm.
Now Horspath must repeat last year's near 500-mile round trip to Grampound Road, near St Austell - when the side suffered an agonising 14-run defeat - with the match to be replayed from scratch.
It was a deeply frustrating outcome for all with the game evenly balanced after Horspath posted a competitive score in front of a crowd of around 200 on a pitch providing assistance for both seamers and spinners.
Following heavy rain on Friday and Saturday, sterling work by groundsman David Ward and his team ensured conditions were fit for a prompt start and Horspath were inserted after the Devon & Cornwall Group winners won the toss.
The Cherwell League Division 1 leaders were soon in trouble at 16-3. With five on the board, Jimmy Phillips was bowled by a Lewis Sanders delivery which shaped back in, and it was 6-2 when Hussaan Ahmad was run out.
The Horspath batsman's edge down into the slips was half-stopped but, as he set off for a run, Thomas Hughes reacted sharply to pick up the ball, turn and throw down the stumps with Ahmad out of his ground.
Stephen Green hit the first boundary of the innings with a straight drive off Nathan Keevil down to the scout hut. However, the Roadies paceman replied by tucking up Green with a lifting delivery and the ball flew off his bat to third man in front of the nets where Sanders took a comfortable catch.
Having watched the mayhem unfold from the other end, opener Tom Coleman went on the attack with three fours in the next over. He flicked off his legs to fine leg by the cycle speedway track, had a narrow escape when his cut shot flew through the fielder's hands at backward point, before pulling to the square leg boundary.
Coleman continued to play freely with another legside boundary, before surviving a caught and bowled chance and then driving a four down the ground to the scout hut.
Elliot Ruff brought up Horspath's 50 in the 11th over with a square cut for four down to the car park, and Coleman went aerial in similar fashion towards the hedge to add another boundary.
The runs continued to flow with the pair whipping boundaries through mid-wicket. Ruff survived a chance to mid-on, before hitting the next ball down the ground for four.
Coleman smashed a short ball into the nets, and the pair had added 77 for the fourth wicket when the introduction of spin broke their stand with Ruff, on 20, chipping a catch back to Alex Lean to make it 93-4.
While a distant rumble of thunder provided an ominous portent of what was to follow, Horspath's 100 came up in the 22nd over, before Coleman completed a fine half-century with a single down to long on in front of the nets.
However, the Cornwall League Division 1 leaders hit back when Tyron Eyles, who had smashed 58 in the fifth-round win over Peppard Stoke Row, lofted a delivery from Fox-Dean to Jack Mingo running round from mid-off to take the catch behind the bowler and make it 114-5.
Skipper Will Eason had also made a half-century against Peppard and he got off the mark with a four down to fine leg courtesy of a misfield, before whipping another boundary in the same direction.
Coleman also profited from some untidy work in the field with fours to fine leg and through the covers, before Eason hit a cracking drive to the extra cover boundary by the nets.
Coleman moved on to 70 with a superb square cut for four only to be bowled by Keevil's next delivery to make it 148-6. His runs came off 91 balls and included 11 boundaries.
It triggered a mini collapse with Horspath losing three wickets for just two runs to slump to 150-8 as Keevil trapped Jehan Mohammed lbw, before Eason drove Lean straight into Sanders' hands at extra cover to fall for 14.
However, Horspath's total was boosted by some lusty blows from Amin Rafiq in the penultimate over. He had already been dropped at deep square leg, before smashing a four down by the nets and then hitting a huge six over mid-wicket into the field behind the hedge.
Attempting to follow his brother's lead, Asad Rafiq was caught at long off by Fox-Dean off Daniel Ferris, before Joval Calix edged the fourth delivery of the last over from Hughes into Harry Gregory's gloves to leave Horspath all out.
Amin was unbeaten on 19, while Keevil (3-38) led the Roadies attack with Lean (2-21), Hughes (1-25), Fox-Dean (1-25), Sanders (1-26) and Ferris (1-34) all among the wickets.
It had been a bold fightback by Horspath after a poor start to their innings and left the match intriguingly poised. However, the heavens opened bringing a premature end to proceedings meaning the two sides must do it all again on Sunday, but this time in Cornwall.
The club have organised a minibus for the trip with a limited number of spaces available. It will set off from Horspath at 6am, before returning from Grampound Road at 8pm (subject to the time the game finishes). Seats are £40. Please contact Will Eason for more details.
The prize for the winners is a home tie in the quarter-finals against Painswick (Gloucestershire) or 1988 and 1990 national champions Goatacre (Dorset & Wiltshire).
They also replay next weekend after their tie was abandoned with hosts Painswick 80-2 off 12.3 overs when rain hit the ground leaving the outfield too wet for play.
Click below to see the Horspath innings from Sunday