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Posted:
Monday 17th August 2009
Source: Stephen Birley
There was huge disappointment for the Club when
the side dipped out of the Devon County Dartmoor
Breweries Twenty20 Cup at the semi-final stage
when humbled by North Devon on their own Instow
pitch, beaten by 110 runs in the first of the
day’s semi-final matches.
Whether the achievement the day before in almost
certainly achieving a second season of
top-flight cricket at Kensham Park (no mean feat
that by the way), and perhaps a little over
indulgence the night before took a toll or maybe
it was the absence of Gary Newall and Ross Acton
who played their parts in the Thursday night win
over Alphington to make the trip to North Devon,
but, for some reason the side played below par
on the day.
North Devon batted first and posted what is
considered to be an ‘above par’ Twenty20 total
at Instow of 174-6. The reply began badly and,
from 10-2, there was to be no famous recovery
and the innings collapsed to 64 all out.
North Devon then took on and beat Plympton in
the Final to seal the trophy for the second
successive year.
They now move onto the Western Region Finals at
Weston-Super-Mare on the last Sunday of the
month.
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