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There is nothing more Bermudian than Cup Match and the game’s cancellation will leave a huge hole in the calendar of cultural events. The Cup Match holiday traditionally brings with it a variety of other entertainment, including Cup Match Summer Spla...

Cup Match organisers bowed to the inevitable yesterday in cancelling the Annual Classic for the first time in its 118-year history. Since the most popular sporting event in Bermuda was founded, it has carried on regardless despite the imposing presen...

The Eastern Counties Cup became the first of the island’s big two midsummer cricket spectacles to fall victim to the coronavirus yesterday when it cancelled its three-match series for this year. With pressure mounting on the Cup Match clubs to make a...

There is no known vaccine for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, and it is not expected that there will be one universally accepted before the end of 2020. Bermuda by then will have long emerged from the phased reopening of our economy, emphasised by t...

Cup Match this year is at the mercy of the coronavirus — but people’s health must come first, the president of Somerset Cricket Club said yesterday. Vashun Blanchette, whose club is scheduled to host the Annual Classic, insisted the welfare of people...

Opposition to the renaming of Somers Day to honour a Bermudian hero of the abolition of slavery movement in Britain was “mind boggling”, a government minister has said. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said that the...

Today should be a day for lauding the Bermuda cricket team’s perfect start yesterday to the ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier, for patting ourselves on the back for banging on that Delray Rawlins should be representing his homeland, and for praisi...

Dear Sir, My wife and I have been regular visitors to Bermuda since 1990 and annually since 2012. In the past four years, we discovered Cup Match and now plan our trips around the event. It has always been fun to see everyone wearing their “colours”...

The greatest takeaway from Cup Match 2019 was that Dion Stovell got to accompany his young son in Florida to experience all the joys and thrills that come with visit to places such as Disney World, SeaWorld or Legoland. That the Somerset all-rounder ...

Dalin Richardson honoured the memory of his late grandmother by taking a superb catch on the first day of this year’s Cup Match at Wellington Oval. The Somerset reserve grabbed St George’s batsman Onias Bascome at deep mid-wicket off of the bowling o...

Cup Match had a dramatic finish yesterday at Wellington Oval when batsman Dion Stovell was struck in the head on the first ball of the Somerset second innings and taken to hospital. Somerset, who started their innings at 7.16pm, had been set an unlik...

Thousands of people braved the heat to soak up the Cup Match atmosphere at St George’s Cricket Club this weekend. Spectators filled the stands at Wellington Oval to watch the game, take on the “stock market” at the Crown and Anchor tables and sociali...