Belstone v North Tawton (Buckley Cup)

Belstone (15 pts) beat North Tawton (2 pts) by 86 runs

Belstone

Drake                           ct Wilson b Pitts                     23

Si Tremain                    retired                                     25

Sc Tremain                   retired                                     25

Gross                           ct A Gillespie b Fisher             1

Woods                         retired                                     29

Walpole                        b Weeks                                 5

Tucker                          ct Pitts b Wilson                      1

Munkenbeck                 ct Sc Gillespie b Wilson            0

Sandercock                   b Wilson                                 1

Holmes                         not out                                     0

Parsons                        not out                                     2

Extras                                                                         22

TOTAL                          for 6 wickets                            134

Bowling:

Pitts: 4-0-28-1

Ayris: 4-0-24-0

Sc Gillespie: 4-0-33-0

Fisher: 3-0-15-1

Weeks: 4-0-26-1

Wilson: 1-0-1-3

North Tawton

Pitts                             ct Woods b Parsons                 2

Hodge                          ct & b Sandercock                     0

A Gillespie                    b Sandercock                           13

Sc Gillespie                  b Parsons                                 2

Shields                         b Parsons                                4

Ayris                            ct Tucker b Parsons                  0

Speak                          ct Woods b Sandercock             0

Weeks                         ct Drake b Holmes                     5

Poynton                        not out                                     16

Fisher                           ct & b Holmes                          2

Wilson                          b Holmes                                 0

Extras                                                                         4

TOTAL                          for 10 wickets                            48

Bowling:

Parsons: 4-0-11-4

Sandercock: 4-0-14-3

Holmes: 2.4-0-7-3

Munkenbeck: 2-0-13-0

Belstone maintained their recent unbeaten run with a resounding 86 run victory over North Tawton last week in the Buckley Cup.  However they failed to make up any ground on Buckley leaders Tedburn St Mary who on the same evening won a low-scoring game (Tedburn 76 all out, Sticklepath 50 all out) against Sticklepath by 26 runs. 

Belstone began at seven-a-over and kept the rate going for their full 20 overs thanks to a breezy cameo from Richard Drake (23), elegant stroke-play from father and son combination Simon and Scott Tremain (both 25 retired) and a quick-fire 29 retired from Phil Woods which included the shot of the game when he used his feet to reach the pitch of a ball from Weeks and lifted it effortlessly over long-on into the next field for six.  Tom Wilson must have wished he had been brought on sooner as his only over, the last but one of the innings, brought him three wickets for just a single as the Belstone tail swung their bats across the line.

Chasing 135 to win North Tawton’s troubles began when Hodge played the seventh ball of the innings firmly to the left of opening bowler Rob Sandercock, only to see him dive full length to take the ball one-handed just above the turf.  After that wickets fell in almost every over with only Alan Gillespie (13) and Carl Poynton (16 not out) reaching double figures.  Sandercock took two more to finish with three for 14, Jonathan Parsons picked up four for 11 to take his season’s haul to 26 wickets, and Henry Holmes polished things off with the last three wickets for 13 to give Belstone an 86 run victory.