A star was born during this year's Cup Match at Somerset Cricket Club and his name is Jordan DeSilva.

The promising 18-year-old left arm seamer, who represented Bermuda at the Sir Gary Sobers International Schools Tournament in Barbados last month, returned impressive match figures of three for 49 and emphatically punctuated his arrival on the big stage by snaring the prized scalps of Clay Smith and Delyone Borden.

Colt DeSilva beat veteran Smith for pace in the first innings with a ball that held its line and then went one better by literally shatterring Borden's off-stump with a gem of a delivery that jagged back into the batsman who offered no stroke in the second innings.

Such was the velocity of DeSilva's delivery that it broke the base of the off-stump which, fittingly, the ecstatic youngster kept for a souvenir.

"I'm going to cherish that forever. Once I saw the ball hit the stumps I was just ecstatic," said DeSilva.

He will also cherish getting the big wicket of Smith, who bowed out of the classic this year.

"If somebody came to me when I was younger and told me Clay Smth was going to be my first Cup Match wicket I probably would have laughed at them. But I was so happy to get Clay in his last Cup Match, it was such a good moment for me," DeSilva added.

DeSilva warmed up for Cup Match representing Bermuda's Under-18s in the Caribbean and seemed to pick up where he left off in the West End last week.

"The Barbados trip helped me immensely and I was very pleased with my performance," he said. "I was pretty comfortable and felt I belonged out there."

The youngster's solid performance with the ball on his Cup Match debut went a long way towards erasing doubts over his ability to roll with the big guns.

"There were some people who didn't believe I deserved to be here this year and so I had a lot to prove. But I think I showed them that I have arrived," DeSilva said.

The Somerset bowler criticised St.George's' tactics late on the second day, as had some of his senior team-mates, and felt he and his team dictacted the tempo throughout the match.

"I think St.George's were negative in their approach because they could have gone for the runs. They came out negative from the first ball of the game," he argued.

"There was not one moment during the match St.George's had the initiative and we were on the front foot the whole time. We were definitely the more attacking team but it was disappointing in the end because we were in the driver's seat and had a chance to win."

DeSilva added: "We always felt 230 would be a score we could defend and a total St.George's would go after. But the last hour was very boring and I was surprised the two captains (Jacobi Robinson and Lionel Cann) called the game so early (after eight of the last 20 mandatory 20 overs) because six wickets in 12 overs is a possibility."

Meanwhile, St.George's colt Tre Govia also had a memorable Cup Match debut.

The 15-year-old leg spinner claimed his first Cup Match scalp in the second innings and also took a catch to rebound from a minor foot injury he suffered attempting to cut off a boundary during first day's play.

"It was a very good enjoyable experience and I really learned a lot from playing alongside all of the legends," Govia said. "They helped me throughout the match."

Govia snatched the wicket of Sammy Robinson (11) in Somerset's second innings and then followed up by taking his first catch in Cup Match to dismiss opening bat Dion Stovell (39).

"I was really excited to get that first wicket because it took a lot of pressure off of me. It all happened in an over because I got the wicket and then the catch and everyone was excited," he added.

Govia narrowly escaped serious injury when his right foot got tangled in the fence in the first innings trying to save a Janeiro Tucker boundary.

"My ankle got jammed and the top of it swelled up," he explained.

Also enjoying memorable Cup Match debuts this year were DeSilva's Somerset team-mates Chris Douglas and Ricardo Brangman jr.

Douglas stroked a combined 65 runs and took two wickets for ten runs off six overs with three maidens, while Brangman hit 22 in the first innings and held two catches behind the stumps.