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Dion Stovell, the Somerset all-rounder, took his wicket haul in Cup Match all in his stride. The off spinner claimed match-best figures of seven for 49 to help Somerset to a first innings win since 1967 for either side. He took three for 21 in St Geo...

Somerset Cricket Club (Somerset won toss): Somerset beat St George’s by an innings and 34 runs Somerset pulled off a dramatic innings and 34-run victory yesterday, despite a defiant 97-run stand for the ninth wicket between century-maker Onias Bascom...

Jordan DeSilva refused to take all the credit after captaining Somerset to their biggest Cup Match victory since 1948. “Everyone talks about me being a history maker, but it’s this whole team,” DeSilva said. “The team are the history makers. “I have ...

The following is a letter from an inmate at Westgate Correctional Facility. The letter, owing to the vagaries of the Bermuda postal system, did not arrive until the day before Cup Match despite being date-stamped June 11 at Westgate. Although the fes...

Ecstatic Somerset Cricket Club fans celebrated an historic Cup Match victory for their team yesterday. Jubilant crowds stormed the field after Somerset beat St George’s by an innings and 34 runs — the first time West Enders have recorded an innings v...

Not even a Herculean effort from century-maker Onias Bascome could save St George’s from their worst defeat in Cup Match for 70 years. A dyed-in-the-wool St Georgian, Bascome showed wonderful powers of concentration and admirable bloody-mindedness to...

Somerset openers Terryn Fray and Chris Douglas have etched their names into the annals of Cup Match history with a record first-wicket partnership. The pair put on 153 runs, Douglas scoring 74 while Fray fell just ten shy of a century, as St George’s...

Somerset are fully in control after the first day of the Cup Match Classic, declaring on 378 for nine and limiting St George’s to 53 for four for a lead of 324. Stephen Outerbridge top scored on 92 for the home side at Somerset Cricket Club with 92, ...

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” — Harriet Tubman Bermuda is getting ready to celebrate the 116th annual Cup Match classic and Emancipation Day. We will dress in red and blue. We wil...

This time of year, it is all about the colours. Even, it seems, when it comes to sprinkles. Allison Smith could not believe the reactions she got when she started selling the decorative sugar strands in Cup Match colours three weeks ago. “I’ve had s...

This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, Somerset Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities all over the island. The buzz of excitement is palpable. The hope is that we have...

Veteran Lionel Cann was dropped by St George’s in one of six changes, including four colts, despite leading the Vice-President’s XI to a seven-wicket victory over the President’s team in Saturday’s trial match at Wellington Oval. The selectors end...