2004 Under 14 Inter District Reports (1)

The West Region retained their Under 14 title in a close run affair with the North. The season started with a hiccup when Torquay was unfit for the South against West fixture but the North and East were more successful at Bradninch where the visitors came out winners by 44 runs. The North batted first and scored at 3.70 an over thanks mainly to steady batting from Tidball (22), Forester (26), Pickard (31) and Wittram (38). However it was Extras who topped scored with 43. The East's Elliot Acton took 3-31 on his home ground in his ten overs and their skipper Joe Webb took 3-21 off 8. The East were always up against it as they lost wickets regularly and it was a ninth wicket stand of 44 between Scott Boardman (28*) and Harris (20) that took their side into bonus point territory and a tenth wicket partnership of 21 that took them to their final total. Dan Pickard took 3-24 off 4.4 overs and Fish Leigh and Gareth Tidball took two apiece. Again it was Extras who topped scored with 45.

The next day at Seaton it was the East who took control of their match with the West scoring a massive 288-7 at 5.76 an over. The charge was lead by East's Man of the Match Joe Webb 65 (8 fours), Robbie Debinham 33 (7 fours), Elliot Acton 60 whose first two scoring shots cleared the boundary and he added another 6 and 3 fours. Harris rubbed salt into the wound with a 30 but Extras contributed 52 to the final total. Plympton's Jordan Andrews took 2-46. The West decided to bat the overs and try and pick up full batting bonus points, they achieved the former but not the latter as they batted with some character with Whitchurch's Jack Newton scoring a career best 61 and he was aided and abetted by all his colleagues with under 13 keeper Harry Stephenson holding the tail together with an undefeated 21.

At Whitchurch the West entertained the North in an absorbing game of cricket which the West won on the first ball off the last over with two wickets in hand. The East where invited to bat and they scored 213 thanks to 20 from their captain Gareth Tidball, 31 from Dart, 56 from Danial Pickard ( 9 fours) and a whirlwind 42 not out from Harry Chapman Walker (5 fours and two sixes). The key partnership was the third of 87 between Dart and Pickard where they took the score to 132 after 32 overs. Coming in at seven Chapman-Walker took a liking to the short leg side boundary. Plympton's Jordan Andrews was the pick of the home bowlers taking 5-37 off ten.
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