Devon Cricket Board - A Division 2nd XI

A Division 2nd XI

A DIVISION 2nd XI

CHAMPIONS Exmouth made it 11 wins for the season when they eased past Bradninch by 38 runs.

Bradninch had harboured hopes of a late push for second place before they ran into Exmouth, but can probably forget them now as they are 21 points behind Tavistock in second place.

Even so it was no cakewalk for Exmouth, who found runs hard to come by – and wickets almost a difficult.

Exmouth opener Stuart Rintoul batted through for 83, sharing in stands of 65 with Julian Page (23) and 59 with Roger Wensley (48) in a tally of 196 for seven.

Mark Perrett and Luca Fencl had three wickets each for Bradninch.

Bradninch dipped to 91 for six in reply, but finishing them off was a different story.

Suresh Balan (42) and Gary Newall (31) got Bradninch up to 148 all out.

Sean Butler (3-23) had one more wicket than Jack Sargeant, Matt Tarry and Toby Ingham in the Exmouth bowling book.

Tavistock went second in the table at the expense of Barton after they won by nine wickets against relegation worriers Braunton.

Dave Cresswell (35) had the only score of note as Braunton were bowled out for 72 – veteran Dave Jefffrey showing he hadn’t lost his touch with three for 14.

Nick Goodchild (49no) lost Marc Webber to Mark Johnson (1-12) in the 18.2 overs Tavvy needed to knock off the runs.

Barton, who were second, dropped back third due to dropped bonus points in the one-wicket win over bottom side Sidmouth.

Mike Dibble’s 15 was as good as it got for Sidmouth as they were bowled out for 76 by Pete Gartrell (4-10) and Dave Palmer (2-15).

Palmer (26) then top scored as Barton lurched to 71 for nine in reply as Tom Chaplin (3-20) and Dom Bess (4-22) asked awkward questions of the batters.

Last man Mike Lievesley hit a four to win it.

Chudleigh and Plymouth 3^rd XI fought out a dire draw at kate Brook in a game which won’t longer long in the memory.

Chudleigh were all out for 174 – and were glad of a stand worth 64 for the seventh wicket between Shaun Newland (34) and Mark Heather (25) for undoing some of the damage done by Martin Gill (4-28) and four run outs.

Plymouth struggled to 53 for seven in reply as they struggled against Matt Ball (2-13), Will Heather (2-9) and Graeme Wilson, who had remarkable figures of three for eight from 10 overs.

Sandford – fourth in the table but in no hurry to get promoted – fought out an entertaining draw with Plymstock at Creedy Park.

Brian Leach (83) shared in stands of 73 with Sean Hawkins (68no) and 92 with Ben Hancock (46) in a 46-over total of 246 for five.

Plymstock went for it all the way, led by Stephen Rowe (62), Dan Moffatt (52) and Jason Williams (41).

Forty-six to win off the last five overs was just a few too many and Plymstock ran out of puff at 231 for five.

DCB Ltd, University of Exeter Sports Hall, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QN Company Registration Number: 7024773