Devon Cricket League 1st XI C division west

Stoke Gabriel 59 all out,

Stoke (0 points) lost to Kingsbridge (20) by 10 wickets

Kingsbridge made the short trip to Stoke on Sat­urday and on a rare occasion were asked to field first on losing the toss.

It was a decision Stoke were soon to regret. The early overs showed no sign of things to come as Stoke moved to 19-0.

However, once Peach made the initial breakthrough, wickets tumbled.

Rosewarne produced his best spell of the season with a burst of four wickets for six runs, removing the danger men.

At 33-5 the writing was on the wall. It was a good job for Stoke that some variable bounce provided a boost to the extras as they topped the scoring with 17.

Peach finished his spell with a wicket ending with 2-25. Carr's four overs saw him take 3-2.

Rosewarne couldn't quite get his fifth wicket, finishing with 4-21 and skipper de Silva came on to bowl two balls, his customary opening wide and second-ball wicket wrapping the innings up.

Stoke opened with all guns blazing. Extras, runs off the bat, overthrows... all flowed freely as James Ford (23no) and James West­lake (22no) took Kings­bridge to victory with a flurry of boundaries inside seven overs.

The match ball was sponsored by Paul Car­penter Associates.

Meanwhile, the second XI had a less pleasant time of it, suffering a loss in their derby game against Ivybridge.

Eddie Church top-scored for Kings with 42 as they could only manage 123 all out, with Ivybridge making 99-3 to win on run rate. Kings earned just two points from this loss.