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Most residents have a story about how they came to support their favourite Cup Match team — even if it’s as short as ‘My momma told me so’. The fact of the matter is whether your family has lived in the East End for several generations or you’ve just...

This is the eve of the 113th Annual Somerset vs St George’s Cup Match. And while we pride ourselves about living in this ‘new world’ this fantastic ‘e-world’ as it is called, when it comes to the Cup Match, it is an entirely different thing. Spirit-w...

Shannon Rayner, the St George’s colt, will find himself in a somewhat awkward position in this year’s Cup Match. The big occasion will pit the all-rounder against Southampton Rangers team-mates Janeiro Tucker and Derrick Brangman who both play for So...

Bad behaviour will not be tolerated at Cup Match this year and a match referee has been appointed to enforce a Code of Conduct adopted by the two clubs with the assistance of the Bermuda Cricket Board. Both Cup Match clubs are determined to stamp ou...

Past Somerset Cup Match captains are being recognised in the form of banners on telephone poles along the road from George's Bay Road near White Hill to Watford Bridge. Sandys Parish Council's Programmes Committee Co-ordinator, Charlene Webb came up...

In 1983, Noel Gibbons and Jeff Richardson were members of Clevie Wade’s victorious St George’s team that defeated Somerset by three wickets in a low-scoring match at Somerset Cricket Club. Now some 31 years later, Richardson and Gibbons find themselv...

Jekon Edness, the Somerset captain, has good reason to be confident going into Cup Match tomorrow. The champions made only two changes to last year’s team and are confident that Jordan DeSilva for Kamau Leverock, who did not return from England, an...

“I was shaking in my boots.” No, former football great Clyde Best was not recalling the first time that he turned out for West Ham United against Arsenal in England. He was remembering the first time he walked out to the wicket in Cup Match playing ...

In cricketing terms 98 represents a good innings. The same can be said for life in general, especially when you are still able to enjoy the simple things. Brownlow Place celebrated his 98th birthday last Thursday and he still manages to live a full...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary feats in Cup Match history. In 1974, St George’s pair Rupert Scotland and Lee Raynor produced an unbroken 229-run sixth-wicket partnership at Somerset Cricket Club — the highest pa...

St George’s made six changes to their Cup Match team for the second straight year, bringing in two colts and recalling four others as the axe fell on three of last year’s colts. Hampered by Saturday’s heavy rain that stopped the final trial match at ...