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Cup Match is finally here. How the teams match up

All the talk is over; Cup Match is finally here. Looking at the two teams, this year’s match should be very entertaining. There has been a lot of talk about the St George’s team, while Somerset surprised many by dropping one of their more reliable an...
Jul 30, 2014
Other

Honouring Somerset's past

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...
Jul 30, 2014
Cricket

Best of friends, worst of enemies

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...
Jul 30, 2014
Cricket

Edness imbues confidence befitting comforts of home

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...
Jul 30, 2014
Cricket

Best still shivers at enormity of occasion

“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 ...
Jul 29, 2014
Other

98 not out — and in cracking form

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...
Jul 29, 2014
Cricket

When Somerset thoughtthey were on their way

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...
Jul 29, 2014
Cricket

St George’s ditch youth policy

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 ...
Jul 28, 2014
Cricket

Donawa’s pace unsettles St George’s

Somerset CC (St George’s won toss): Somerset beat St George’s by 25 runs. In what they hope will be a sign of things to come in a few days’ time, Somerset held on to the Colts Cup Match trophy with a 25-run victory yesterday. Forced to end their inn...
Jul 28, 2014
Cricket

Hard to leave out Outerbridge, says Corday

There were few surprises when Somerset Cricket Club hierarchy announced their squad to defend the coveted Cup Match trophy on home turf this week to the club’s general membership in the early hours of yesterday morning. Perhaps the only real surprise...
Jul 28, 2014
Cricket

St George's react to 2013 with six changes

St George's rang in the changes last night, dropping six players from last year's Cup Match team as they brought in two colts and recalled four others. The St George's selectors deliberated for more than three hours before announcing the team to the ...
Jul 27, 2014
Other

Sports Mailbox: Future’s now for St George’s

Dear Editor, First of all, I want to say a happy belated 93rd birthday to Mr Tubby Richardson (former St George’s captain). For the past two years, Somerset Cup Match players have picked themselves, while St George’s have picked a team for the future...
Jul 26, 2014
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