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It is often said that you don’t know someone until you live with them. Such was the case with this week’s Cup Match legend. For in 1990, in the Netherlands, I had the opportunity to be a room-mate with an individual who I came to learn was very focus...

Somerset’s selection committee could be in store for an early night when the Cup Match champions choose their team to defend the trophy after the final trial match at Somerset Cricket Club on Saturday. “I do not think the selection committee will hav...

Dear Sir: After watching the Eastern Counties game this weekend, here is the team I believe should be chosen by the St George’s selectors for the Annual Classic. It is a team selected based on form and merit. These players have produced the goods thi...

Southampton Oval (Bailey’s Bay won toss): Southampton Rangers beat Bailey’s Bay by five wickets Janeiro Tucker and Dion Stovell completed half-centuries in a century partnership for the fourth wicket as Southampton Rangers sealed a comfortable victo...

Sea Breeze Oval (St David’s won toss): Cleveland beat St David’s by 147 runs Cleveland County ended an interminable wait to win the Eastern Counties Cup on Saturday when they thrashed holders St David’s in a thrilling first-round match that left the...

Allan Douglas Jr, the Cleveland captain, bemoaned his team’s lack of professionalism after their scheduled match yesterday in the Logic Premier Division was forfeited, ostensibly because players got carried away celebrating an historic victory in the...

Somerset, the Cup Match defending champions, will be forced to make at least one change to their squad this year. Jeff Richardson, the Somerset coach, yesterday confirmed that all-rounder Kamau Leverock has been ruled out through cricket commitments ...

Clay Smith, the Cleveland County coach, has taken his team’s fringe players to task over their lack of commitment towards Saturday’s Eastern Counties first round match with champions St David’s at Sea Breeze Oval. The challenger’s preparations have b...

Cricket has a way of humbling even its greatest masters. During the Sixties, a Combined London team (from Surrey and Middlesex) came to our shores. They possessed nine Test players in their line-up and had Sir Garfield Sobers as their guest player. ...