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EXMOUTH’S T20 winning touch deserted them when it mattered as Ealing stormed to an eight-wicket win in the NatWest Club T20 at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff on Tuesday night.
David Lye made 48 and Dan Pyle 41 as Exmouth piled up an impressive-looking 174 for seven.
Pyle topped the ECB Championship Under-17 batting stats for Devon during the season just ended and his knock may prompt some interest from one of the First Class counties.
Ealing showed their intent from the start – they were 43 for none after three overs – and were always a long way ahead of the clock.
Openers Ollie Wilkin (44) and Chris Peploe laid the foundations by putting on 73 by midway through the sixth over.
Lye, usually miserly in T20 cricket, bowled two overs for 30 runs as Peploe and in particular Wilkin carted the bowling.
Ian Bishop fared little better one 39 off three overs – although he did bowl Wilkin.
Changing it round didn’t help. Trevor Anning bowled an over for 17, Chappell’s first over cost 16 runs including extras and Lye came back for another go and disappeared for 14.
With Wilkin and Chris Wakefield gone in a running total of 109 for two, left-hander Peploe took the lead role as Ealing motored along.
The former Middlesex all-rounder reached his 50 off 28 balls with nothing more than a half-chance offered on 11.
Peploe finished on 70 not out from 52 balls, nine of which were hit for four and two more for sixes.
Robbie White, a Middlesex 2nd XI regular, was unbeaten on 41 after flicking Bishop away for four at the start of the 19th over to win the match.
Lye followed his match-turning 65 in the morning semi-final win over Pudsey Congs with another 48 to set Exmouth on the road to 174 for seven.
Lye and Richard Baggs (22) put on 60 in seven overs for the first wicket. The stand was broken when Baggs was caught on the boundary.
Jon Evennett came and went in the same over – also caught on the boundary – as 60 for none became 64 for two.
Lye and Dawson added another 27 and Lye was poised for a second half-century of the day when he was caught at full stretch at third-man for 48.
Dawson, who tipped and ran to good effect, went on to reach 26 then flicked a catch to short mid-wicket.
Exmouth got their second wind through Sandy Allen and left-hander Pyle, who put on 34 in less than four overs.
Allen (18) went first caught behind, but Pyle carried on until the final over when he was run out for 41.
During a 34-ball stay Pyle wasn’t afraid to play his shots and hit Ahmad Elech into the seventh row of the grandstand for one of his two sixes.
Pick of the bowlers for Ealing by a distance with two for 26 was Peploe, who was an easy pick as man-of-the-match for adjudicator Mark Butcher from Sky TV.
Semi-finals
Pudsey Congs 152-7 (A Bairstow 44no, A Patel 44; G Chappell 4-24), Exmouth 154-5 (D Lye 63, R Dawson 24, S Allen 18no; J Pearson 2-26). Exmouth bt Pudsey Congs by 5 wkts.
Chester 82, Ealing 84-0.
Final
Exmouth 174-7 (D Lye 48, D Pyle 41, R Dawson 26, R Baggs 22; C Peploe 2-26), Ealing 177-2 (C Peploe 70no, R White 41no, O Wilkin 44). Ealing bt Exmouth by 8 wkts.