Devon Senior Cup Second Round

  

SIDMOUTH breezed into the last eight of the Dev on Senior Cup with a 114-run win over Torquay.

Josh Bess top scored for Sidmouth with 74, which came off 88 balls and included five fours and two sixes, in a tally of 246 for five.

Bess and Neil Hancock (34) enjoyed a good partnership and flogged the Torquay bowling for 99 for the sec on d wicket. James Macey (46) and Bess kept the board ticking over by adding another 51 for the third wicket.

More misery ensued for Torquay when Trent Ovens and Louis Talay plundered 67 for the sixth wicket, it on ly took them 35 balls.

Ovens did most of the damage, hitting five fours and three sixes on his way to 69 not out off 40 balls.

Just when Torquay thought it couldn’t get any worse it did. Spinner Ben Orr, who bowled his eight overs for 33 runs, pulled a hamstring and looks like being out for several weeks.

Torquay, who had to play without Justin Yau and Joe Thomps on , who were on Dev on under-21 duty against Dorset , were bowled out for 132 in 36 overs.

Opener Usman Malvi was caught behind sec on d ball and it went downhill from there.

Matt Thomps on made 31 in 34 overs as part of a damage limitati on exercise.

Kris Davis threw cauti on to the wind when he went in, slamming 30 off 20 balls with three fours and two sixes.

Pick of Sidmouth’s bowlers was Nick Gingell with three for 29.

 

EXMOUTH sprung a shock in the Dev on Senior Cup when they beat Plympt on by 12 runs on the Maer.

Plympt on , last seas on ’s defeated finalists, are sec on d in the latest Premier table while Exmouth are bottom.

Holding Exmouth to 159 for nine in 40 overs was a respectable effort – and it looked like a winning on e when Plympt on were 95 for two in reply.

The turning point was the demise of Jeremy Williams, who was run-out after getting to the same end as Wasim Mohammed.

Wickets tumbled on a regular basis as Exmouth pulled off a win even they didn’t expect.

Exmouth’s batting effort was solid rather than spectacular with skipper Richard Baggs top scoring on 27. Wasim (3-22) and the D on ohues – Craig (2-28) and Keith (2-35) – were the bowlers who reduced the home side to 135 for nine. A last-wicket stand of 24 between Chris Jelley (18no) and Mark Woodman (6no) delayed Plympt on l on ger than they would have liked and ultimately came back to haunt them.

Plympt on went off at a rate of knots with Andy Walter (44) and Wasim (30) tucking in.

After Williams went it Exmouth turned to spinner Arul Suppiah to take the pace off the Somerset staffman obliged by bowling eight overs for just 15 runs. Baggs (2-22), Chris Travers (2-19) and Cars on Lederele (3-27) whittled Plympt on down to last pair Lewis Gregory and Craig D on ohue. They put on 16 before the last wicket fell in the final over.

Adrian Small and Richard Foan were both am on g the runs as Sandford cruised to a six-wicket win over Alphingt on at Creedy Park .

Alphingt on , who play two divisi on s below the Premier side, made a respectable 227 for six in their 40 overs. Opener John Smith cracked 75 – he and Ian McD on ald (24) put on 70 for the first wicket – and Gareth James chipped in with 43.

Sandford sent Matt Theedom in to pinch hit and he made 25 to start the chase in a rush.

Small and Foan then added 170 for the sec on d wicket and that was game over for all practical purposes. Foan got out for 87 with the score on 195 while Small kept going to reach 89. By the time Small was dismissed the target was nine to win.

There were surprises at Budleigh Saltert on where the former Premier champi on s overcame outgunned D Divisi on side Dawlish & Teignmouth by 147 runs.

Budleigh’s James Burt on used to skipper Dawlish & Teignmouth and that inside informati on probably helped as he was compiling a top score of 52 in his current club’s tally of 233 for eight.

Burt on and Tom Viljoen (38) put the first 68 on the board, then Steve Spoljaric (47) shared in a stand of 53 with Burt on for the sec on d wicket. Gary Chatham’s 25 was as good as it got for D&T as they were skittled out for 87. Dev on paceman Ian Bishop turned to off-spin and might do it again after taking four for six. Viljoen and Spoljaric had two wickets each.

South Dev on were way below full strength away to Bart on , so a five-wicket defeat was no real surprise. Other than an unbeaten 25 from Matt Blackmore, and 21 from Rizwan Saeed, there wasn’t much from the South Dev on batters in a tally of 84 all out. Wickets went in twos to Mike Lievesley, Aqeel Ahmed, Jack Porter and Adam Parker. Nick Watkin (25) and Adam Parker (30) saw Bart on home with 20 overs in hand.

Bovey Tracey w on by 26 runs at Axminster, where the home side had them rattled for a while. Andy Kingd on (42) Nick Seager (73) put 53 on the board for Bovey’s sec on d wicket, thenAndy Fairbairn (32)and Seager notched 90 for the fourth towards a total of 220 for seven.

J on ny Hurford got on to bowl the last two overs from on e end and picked up three Bovey wickets for 14 runs. Axminster were 97 for three in reply after 19 overs and at that stage it was game on . After Axminster lost Dave Murnane (67) and Hurford (26), Bovey applied the break through the Bradley brothers and the momentum was lost.

Ali Pasha nipped in for three for 54 as Axminster were held to 194 for eight. Joel Seward was 24 not out at the end.

 

No surprises either at Kingsbridge where Plymouth breezed into the quarter-finals of the Dev on Senior Cup with a 123-run win at Kingsbridge

Plymouth ’s total of 272 for four in 40 overs always looked a testing on e for Kingsbridge, even though the home side got away to a bright start of their own.

From 44 without loss after 10 overs, Kingsbridge faded away and were all out for 149 with eight overs to go.

Callum Whittaker was an early casualty for Plymouth when he was lbw for 11 with the score on 23.

Chris Barr and Mark Thomps on (24) put on 101 for the sec on d wicket then Josh Bryant (28) added another 77 before t on -up Barr got out for 117.

Barr, who caught at cover off Josh Dorey, hit six sixes and 12 fours during his 118-ball stay.

Ashley Treeby came in for the treatment from Barr, who clubbed him for 52 of the runs he c on ceded in a five-over spell.

Once Barr started motoring he moved from 50 to 100 in just 25 balls.

James Nicholls added 37 before the overs ran out.

Steve Tall (22 and Steve Gledhill (17) helped by some wayward bowling, got Kingsbridge off to a 66-run start.

Treeby, who lashed four sixes and the same number of fours during a 32-ball knock of 49, got some revenge for the treatment he had received before tea.

Once Treeby went Kingsbridge started to decline. Barr bagged three wickets, Bryant, Ben Robins and Andy Horrill had two each to bowl the home side out.

 

Results:

Plymouth 272-4 (C Barr 117, J Nicholls 37, J Bryant 28, M Thomps on 24; J Dorey 2-43), Kingsbridge 149 (A Treeby 49, S Tall 26; A Horrill 2-24, B Robins 2-20, J Bryant 2-47, C Barr 3-40) Plymouth bt Kingsbridge by 123 runs

Alphingt on 227-6 (J Smith 75, G James 43, I McD on ald 24; R Foan 2-50), Sandford 231-4 (A Small 89, R Foan 87; J Smith 2-33) Sandford bt Alphingt on by 6 wkts

Budleigh Saltert on 233-8 (T Viljoen 38, J Burt on 52, S Spoljaric 47; N Barnes 3-37), Dawlish & Teignmouth 87 (G Chatham 25; S Spoljaric 2-10, T Viljoen 3-15, I Bishop 4-6) Budleigh bt Dawlish & Teignmouth by 147 runs

Brixham 152 (A Pugh 43, C Lany on 26, F Iqbal 22; S Smith 4-31, A Cheema 3-18), Cornwood 73 (F Iqbal 4-9, M Bar on 2-15, T Robins on 2-0) Brixham bt Cornwood by 79 runs

Bovey Tracey 220-7 (A Kingd on 42, N Seager 73, A Fairbairn 32; J Hurford 3-14), Axminster 194-8 (D Murnane 67, J Hurford 26, J Seward 24no; A Pasha 3-54) Bovey bt Axminster by 26 runs

South Dev on 84 (M Blackmore 25no, R Saeed 21; M Lievesley 2-15, A Ahmed 2-13, J Porter 2-22, A Parker 2-19), Bart on 85-5 (N Watkin 27, A Parker 30) Bart on bt South Dev on by 5 wkts

Exmouth 159-9 (R Baggs 27, C Jelley 18; W Mohammed 3-22, C D on ohue 2-28, K D on ohue 2-35), Plympt on 147 (A Walter 44, W Mohammed 30; C Lederele 3-27, C Travers 2-19, R Baggs 2-22) Exmouth bt Plympt on by 12 runs