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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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Except for one change forced on them by the unavailability of Kamau Leverock, and maybe one other by choice, Somerset’s team selection tonight should be a relatively straightforward process ... short and to the point. As cup holders they do not need ...

Somerset will be without the services of top all-rounder Dion Stovell for at least another year. The Southampton Rangers and Bermuda cricketer attended his first training session at Somerset this week and had originally been included in the Vice-Pres...

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...

It was a treat to watch a youthful Charlie Marshall patrol the covers, adorned in his trademark floppy hat. In those days, the early Eighties, batsmen drove in the air at their risk because he dropped very little. In fact, two catches in the annual c...