- South Dartmoor back to winning ways in cups
- Tom Allin tournament raised more than £5,000 for air ambulance
- Taverners kit bag delivered to Sri Lankan youngsters
- Devon trying to contact the class of 56
- Paceman Tshepo running in Virgin London Marathon
- Five Devon women in Western Storm squad for Kia Super League
- Registration night for all ages at Topsham on Monday
- Lots pouring in for auction at Allin Memorial tournament
- Thames Valley Gentlemen Cricket Club
- Bradninch add Argentinian flavour to Devon League
- Ipplepen youth registration night on Friday
- Final call for Groundsmans first seminar this year
- Devon League official tackling London Marathon for charity
- Bovey on familiar territory in Aaron Printers Cup
- Brockman Cup - Cup Kings lie in wait for holders
- Shepherd Trust helps Kingsbridge build for sustainable future
- DCL - Umpire Appointments 2016 (May 7th - July 2nd)
- Long standing records beaten
- North Devon see off Paignton chase
Noah adopts the Wright Approach
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Noah
Wright demonstrated, in a blistering performance what he can offer both the
sixteens and seventeens. In the annual match against Haberdashers he struck one
of the fastest under sixteen hundreds recorded reaching three figures off just
sixty-nine balls. His opening partnership of one hundred and sixty-nine set up
his side for a nine wicket win. Sam Wyatt-Haynes joined the coaching team for
the warm up and will be a welcome addition for the rest of the summer. The warm
up still did not reach the levels required but was an improvement on Truro. The
Haberdashers captain called correctly and batted. Devon were making their
annual visit to Axminster and for the first time in twenty-three years were not
greeted by Les Haynes who has been such an outstanding ambassador for his club.
We hope to see him in 2016. Devon had twelve which added that extra dimension
of conversations and some interesting discussions were held with the players in
their ten over breaks. Joe Hagan-Burt and Christian Cabburn again opened the
bowling and it was the Thorverton bowler who broke the opening partnership in
the fifth over when he bowled Willis for nine of the fourteen runs on the
board. The visitors other opener and star batsman Harris had looked in
ominously good form, last year he was padded up at three for one hundred and
thirty-six minutes whilst his openers chased down two hundred and forty-nine!
The second wicket pairing more than doubled the score taking the School side up
to thirty-eight in the eighth over. With the complications on availability
under fifteen Matt Parker was making his debut for the side and with his first
ball of the next over, his first, trapped Amin in front. The captain had
replaced Cabburn at the pavilion end and after ten overs he and Parker gave way
to the spinners Petherbridge and Yabsley. They entered the attack in the eighteenth
and nineteenth over and after the twentieth Haberdashers were 93 -3 as Chris Yabsley
had Mack caught by Wright. Harris was now eight short of his half century. At
the half way stage the School were one hundred and three for three and the
final score looked likely to be around two hundred and fifty. To Devon's credit
and particularly due their spinners the visitors were forced onto the back
foot. The stumped Phillips bowled Peterbridge removed the next two batsmen
leaving Haberdashers 133-5 after thirty-three overs. Leg spinner Harry Ward,
who had been outstanding in the field, took over from Petherbridge and Matt
Parker returned this time to the pavilion end. Ward took two quick wickets
bowled and caught behind by Phillips - 162-7 off forty and Parker cleaned up
the tail all three bowled two in consecutive deliveries and Devon would chase
one hundred and eighty six at nearly 3.75. Extras totalled twenty seven, twenty
three from seven wide balls. An improvement which had been sought. Overall a
tight performance well marshalled by Rudolph. Opener Harris was undefeated on
ninety-nine and missed a trick by taking a single to expose number eleven
Lawrence who was then bowled! Harris had batted exceptionally well and there
was real disappointment that he did not make a deserved hundred. Pasta bake and Eton mess and Devon then undertook one of their best run chases. They achieved their objective at less than a run a ball and it was a shame that Wright got out. He was well past three figures and the Green book was under pressure. Even a ten wicket win would not have been sufficient to enter as the highest opening partnership but the one six nine was still pretty impressive. Wright took the lead role striking fourteen fours and seven sixes. He faced thirty-six balls for his fifty, his hundred came up in sixty-nine and he was out on his eighty-second ball caught for one hundred and eighteen. An exceptional innings of outstanding shot selection. Sargent had been the perfect partner and he and Joe Hagan-Burt finished off the chase facing another seventeen balls. Sargent was forty-four (79 min, 55 balls 6 fours) and Hagan-Burt nine. An excellent example of chasing with some real flamboyance. Devon now play Cornwall in the return encounter at Exmouth. |
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