Devon seconds D East

Bridestowe seconds v Feniton seconds

THE Feniton skipper won the toss and put Bridestowe in.  

Dave Jopling and Tim Shaw started cautiously but Bridestowe passed 50 with few alarms.  

Shaw started to increase his scoring rate; Jopling attempted to do the same and was bowled but not without having set a great foundation.  

Pat Ewen came in and played a patient innings allowing Shaw to dominate the visitors’ bowling.

Shaw assaulted the bowling of Devon veteran Pyle in his last over, hitting four sixes in a row.  Shaw and Ewen shared a 97 run partnership before Pat was caught on 41 bringing Jack Barwell to the crease.

Between them they brutalised the Feniton bowling.  The tiring Shaw eventually got caught on 116 having played another classy innings.  Charlie Ewen and Lee Jutson both came and went cheaply and the innings was finished off by Dale Harris and the impressive Corey Holliday after Jack Barwell was out for 69.  With the moormen amassing the intimidating total of 280-6 from the allotted 45 overs and Baker still ticking away, tea was a short and strained affair.

The Feniton reply gained momentum slowly, Jutson and Shaw containing the batsmen and while there were plenty of ones and twos, the visitors were always falling off the required run rate.  Wickets were lost steadily with no batsman dominating tidy bowling and sharp fielding.  Pat Ewen was sharp behind the stumps and debutants Ebby Vallance and Alex Osman stood out in the field with the former taking two sharp catches and the latter demonstrating skilled ground fielding.

Vallance also took a wicket and bowled four tidy overs at a time when the weather was starting to close in and the visitors decided to throw the bat around in the deepening gloom.  Matt and Jamie Baker did a credible job at trying to catch up with the run rate but by 6.30pm, it was very dark and the stumps were pulled.  

There was no disputing the win either with Bridestowe claiming 18 points and a very good win against a strong side.