St David’s coach Wendell Smith tipped his hat to Southampton Rangers following their annihilation of his team in Sunday’s Logic Knockout Championship final.Smith watched in horror as his charges were outgunned by a well drilled Rangers side that romped to an emphatic seven-wicket victory in a rain hit affair at Sea Breeze Oval on Sunday.“I have to give full credit to Rangers who were the hungrier and more disciplined of the two teams,” Smith said. “They put us behind the eight ball early, I think we were 30 for three.“They did exactly to us what we did to Bailey’s Bay in the Eastern Counties. They exerted pressure and kept it on the entire way. They fielded extremely well and took all of their catches.“We had a long rain delay which definitely didn’t help us. But Rangers were extremely disciplined on and off the field and deserved to win. They wanted it more. They were more focused and came to play.”Rangers sent the Islanders into bat after winning a crucial toss with ominous dark clouds lurking about.“We lost a toss that would have been good to win obviously because of the fact there was inclement weather around,” Smith said. “Batting from behind you have an opportunity, if the rain comes, to have to chase reduced totals.“Nonetheless, I was happy to bat first because of the state of the wicket which was good. We scored 98 and there was no fault of the wicket at all.“It was a good track, there was no excuse. We were hitting the ball in the air a bit too much and paid the price.”Rangers seamers Janeiro Tucker (3-9) and Ryan Belboda (3-11) inflicted the heaviest damage with the ball, removing the Islanders’ top and middle order, before left-arm spinner Derrick Brangman (2-6) prevented the tail from wagging.Even though his side boasts arguably the best bowling attack in domestic cricket, Smith acknowledged that defending a low total on a small pitch was always going to be an uphill climb — especially against an explosive Rangers batting order.“If we would’ve gotten Janeiro and Dion (Stovell) cheaply then we possibly could have defended our total,” he said. “But Bailey’s Bay is a small field and most teams should feel comfortable chasing 99 runs (75) there.”Smith conceded that batting hasn’t been one of the team’s strengths this season.“We have won the league and Eastern Counties but we haven’t batted well this season,” he said. “Fortunately we’ve had to chase low totals because our bowling attack is really well.“We don’t have someone who has been consistently among the runs every innings. Surely a batsmen may fail once in maybe five or six innings because you get that unplayable ball. But that’s what’s lacking in St David’s and we probably need two more batsmen in our team.”St David’s will undoubtedly look to get back to winning ways when they face Eastern Counties rivals Bailey’s Bay in the first match (11am) of a Lindos T20 semi-final double header at Sea Breeze Oval on Saturday.Western Counties rivals Rangers and Willow Cuts will clash in the remaining semi-final which gets underway at 3pm.The final will be held on Sunday at the same venue, beginning at 3pm.n Devonshire lifted the Logic Knockout Plate Championship in a rain affected affair at Somerset Cricket Club on Sunday.Rec beat Somerset Bridge by 13 runs in a match reduced to 16 overs due to rain.Devonshire posted 123 all out and then restricted Bridge, who were set a revised target of 105, to 91 for eight.Stephen Bremar (49) and Rudy Smith (21) topped Devonshire’s batting while player/manager Dennis Williams claimed three for 14 off five overs to lead the bowling attack.“We are very happy to win the Plate Championship,” Williams said. “Hopefully hopefully this is something we can build upon to go onto bigger and better things in the future.”Derrick Hill (4-27) and Charles Trott (14) were among the standout performers for Bridge.