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Posted:
Sunday 9th August 2009
Source: Stephen Birley
Who plays who over last three match days as top flight survival
race gathers pace
The first season of top-flight Francis Clark Devon League
cricket at Kensham Park is set for a thrilling run-in. Indeed
who would have thought at the start of the campaign that, three
games from the end of the season Bradninch would host last
season’s runners-up with Budleigh having to get a positive
result to stave off the threat of the drop!
After the defeat at Exeter the bottom six of the top flight is:
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+Exeter |
15 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
152 |
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+Budleigh |
15 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
148 |
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Bradninch |
15 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
146 |
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+Plymouth |
15 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
137 |
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+Torquay |
15 |
3 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
134 |
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Sandford |
15 |
2 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
124 |
So with THREE match days to play the remaining
games in the top flight are:
Saturday August 15 (troubled sides in capital
letters)
Bovey
Tracey v TORQUAY
BRADNINCH v BUDLEIGH
Plympton v PLYMOUTH
SANDFORD v EXETER
Saturday August 22
BRADNINCH v North Devon
BUDLEIGH v
TORQUAY
EXETER v Sidmouth
SANDFORD v PLYMOUTH
And the final day – August 29
Bovey Tracey v SANDFORD
North Devon v BUDLEIGH
PLYMOUTH v
EXETER
Sidmouth v BRADNINCH
TORQUAY v Plympton
Given that Torquay have to meet two of the current top four –
and they go into the 3rd from last match day in the 2nd drop
spot - they must be considered ‘favourites’ to join seemingly
doomed Sandford into the second tier.
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