This was likely to be a testing experience for the seventeens, as it was the second highest fifty over score conceded by a Devon side. They made a very good fist of it, getting to within nine runs due mainly to the middle order combining forces to put their hosts under some real pressure. Second ball Joe Abbot was the fifth leg before of the day, trying to force through mid wicket. The two spinners, Booker and Max Curtis, put on twenty-eight before Booker was caught. Curtis and Golding had taken Devon up to fifty-nine off fourteen overs when Curtis was the final leg before of the game. Devon reached three figures in their twenty-seventh over and in the thirty-first lost Josh Mailling for another cameo of twenty-five in a vital partnership of fifty-nine – the best of the innings. Unfortunately this partnership had been interrupted for thirty-two minutes when a spectator collapsed by the bottom sight screen suffering a fit. The emergency services were summoned, with the first responder arriving promptly followed by an ambulance. This was most unsettling for both sides. Devon needed to light the touch paper and the best player in the squad for such a situation is Rhys Davis and he did not disappoint, playing his innings of the summer and striking the ball as only he can. With Matt Golding he put on forty-seven in twenty minutes off thirty-nine balls. Davies scored thirty-four off nineteen including three straight sixes and two fours, hittting Coates for twenty off four deliveries. This was the impetus the side had badly needed but anchor Golding finally fell in the thirty-eight over for an eighty-four ball forty-four. The situation Devon was in still looked difficult. They had one hundred and sixty-five runs on the board and one hundred and sixteen balls to score the ninety-three runs needed. At 207- 9 off forty-four point two overs the game appeared over as Griffiths was in a vital spell that finished with figures of 5-45 off seven point one overs. The last wicker pairing of Passi Mawalage and Paul Heard nearly worked the miracle putting on forty-one off twenty-eight balls in eighteen minutes. This had been the result of excellent running and some clean hitting. Passi struck four fours and Heard two. Devon needed nine runs off their last six balls with Mawalage on strike, he miscued the first ball to give Coates a catch and Griffiths his final wicket. Wales had at least known they had been in a fight and their response to this wicket confirmed the view. There had been some exhilarating cricket from both sides. Now we had to find the Pontypool Travelodge. This was achieved with little difficulty and a convenient Harvester was passed. We were booked into the John Capel Hanbury Witherspoon in Pontypool and were soon on our way. This time locating it was a little more difficulty as it was situated in the middle of town. The venue proved satisfactory and we booked in for breakfast for the next two mornings.