Visualisation is now very much part of cricket and it is anticipated that the end result of this last game of the summer at Exmouth did not feature in any of the home side’s hopes and aspirations. This game against an under strength Cornwall side did not go to plan in any direction. With five players moving on from the Board’s stewardship a comprehensive win for the home side was the desired result. It went wrong from the moment Barney Huxtable lost his last toss and Devon was inserted. Cornwall removed Josh Mailling in the third over; he was bowled by their Under 17 – Alex May. Next over Looe’s Fred Carter took his first county wicket. He had been drafted in literally at the eleventh hour and he ruined Huxtable’s final Board appearance when Jake Libby caught him for nought. It of course got worse from 6-2 it became 13-3 when another of the departing five Connor Bryan was Carter’s second victim caught by Eggins. Connor has tended to be underrated since he joined in at fifteens but is another who has made telling contributions. Bess, another in his last game and Davies put on the best partnership of the innings in taking the score up to 84. The run rate was good - over four and a half. Bess was run out ten short of a fifty and Devon was again on the back foot. It was unfortunate that Zack, who has played an important part in Devon cricket since he made his debut in 2002, did not reach fifty. He was the last Bess brother, a family who have spanned a period of thirteen years. Fortunately Grandmother still travels with cousin Dom. He hit seven fours and faced forty-seven balls. At the other end Rhys Davies was playing another typical Davies innings. Two days earlier in Leek Wooton the social network Twitter had alerted us to an injury. Hopefully this is not to become a mainstream system for cry-offs and a call is still made. It really is vital that some of the hyperbole that is floating around is not taken literally. This injury, apparently not helped by a fitness test, resulted in a debut for Heathcoat’s Jack Maunder. He responded with a mature innings of nineteen off fifteen balls. He fell with the score on one hundred and thirteen one over short of the half way stage. Eight runs later in the twenty-sixth over Devon suffered a major loss. Rhys Davis was caught by Harvey of Eggins for the second forty of the innings. Similar to Bess he had hit seven fours, batted for eight minutes over the hour and faced sixty-three balls. Another excellent knock. Devon then took their score up to two hundred and three with vital contributions from Booker, brilliantly caught by Smith, Eaves, Yates, Squire and Kidd. Craig Eaves failed by two runs to be the joint top scorer but his fifty-four minute and ball innings helped keep Devon in the game. Matt Kidd knocked the ball around with Will Squire, facing eight balls in scoring eleven and putting on an  unbroken sixteen for the tenth wicket to take Devon past two hundred. Kidd has played a very important part over the past three summers and his bowling has been fundamental in recent successes.