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Weather plays one more trick on Devon

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DEVON’S Minor Counties season ended on a low note when the game against Shropshire at Whitchurch was abandoned at lunch on the third and final day.
Shropshire had been set 236 to win and had moved from 126 for five overnight to 214 for eight.
Devon had to take two more wickets to win and Shropshire needed another 22 runs.
A lunchtime deluge put paid to the game – the third out of six not to reach the finish line this season.
The one game to end in a result was the win over Wales at Exmouth, but that was in a single-innings match after the first two days had been washed out without a ball bowled!
Shropshire added 18 before losing their first wicket of the day – Andy Parsons could behind off the first ball bowled by Mark Orchard in his second spell.
Orchard – cousin David Orchard skippers Plymstock – them claimed Tom Friend lbw to pick up his fifth wicket of the innings.
Josh Bess produced the ball of the day to bowl Ed Barnard all ends up as Shropshire struggled.
Opener Richard Oliver was unbeaten on 86 when the game was abandoned.
Devon 156 (R J Holman 38, R J Woodman 49; E G Barnard 4-18, R K Oliver 5-11) & 208 (R J Woodman 70, S R Benton 46, M W Thompson 40no; T Friend 4-37, E J Green 4-46), Shropshire 129 (E J Foster 58, E J Green 44no, T S Anning 5-30, J Bess 2-33) & 214-8 (R K Oliver 86no; M A Orchard 5-47). Match drawn.
CORNWALL will be playing for the Minor Counties title Devon won last season in the Championship play-off game against Buckinghamshire at Truro next month,
A 10-wicket win over Wales at Abergavenny sealed a Cornwall’s first Western Division title since they joined the competition in 1904.
Callington big-hitter Jake Libby cracked a top score of 88 to set Cornwall on the road to victory.
The play-off game is a four-day affair at Truro, starting on September 9.
JAMES Burke will lead the Devon Lions against Warwickshire 2nd XI on Sunday in the county side’s final game of the season.
Burke, the former Plymouth College student who lives in Millbrook, is the senior player in Devon’s Development side and a natural choice as captain.
Also in the team travelling to Kings Heath on the south side of Birmingham is Plympton all-rounder Josh Mailing.
Mailling is staring to become a regular fixture in the side and widely tipped to break into the senior XI next summer.
Devon: J Burke (Budleigh), J Mailling (Plympton), S Benton (Paignton), M Golding (bradninch), J Dart (Budleigh), C Grainger (Exeter), W Squire (Bradninch), M Orchard (Brixham), H Booker (Braunton), J Richardson (Exeter), M Plowman.

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