Some of you in the 1st and 2nd teams may know of Mark - he's going through a challenging time at the moment so if you visit the website and wish to help out, I'm sure he'd be eternally grateful....
Friday, July 24 2009 @ 02:11 AM BST
Contributed by: argyle
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The long awaited cup semi final took place at Peverell tonight against top of the league Plympton St Maurice.
Plympton won the toss and elected to bat and things looked promising for Plymouth when opener Mat Bourbon was run out for 3 with Keiren Cooper following shortly afterwards bowled for 0 by Dan Goodey. Dan Hussey and Matt Singh though put together a good partnership for Plympton with figures of 20 and 25 retired respectively.
Plympton eventually moved on to 98 off the 20 overs a score which 9 times out of 10 Plymouth would have chased down. Plymouth lost Matt Bryant for 1 bowled Hussey but Dan Goodey carried on and made 23 before being bowled by Hussey with Lewis Edmonds retiring on 25.
A valient effort by Luke Edmonds and Henry Wilson almost saw Plymouth over the line and 3 off the last ball would have tied the match and seen Plymouth go through to the final on wickets lost but it wasnt to be.
The players were clearly disappointed after the match but there is alway next year to look forward to and lets not forget we havent yet finished the league season and should at the very least finish as runners up. A cup and league double would have been nice but Plympton are a very good side and we only lost to them by 7 runs in the opening league game of the season.
Next league match is Wednesday night at home against Yelverton Mosquitoes when we can get back to winning ways and put the cup defeat behind us. We then have a match against Tavistock at home on 4 August and a rearranged fixture against Cornwood Dels away probably in the same week - I will let you know.
Unfortunately tonights away league game against Cornwood Dels was called off due to the weather. This means yet another fixture that has to be squeezed in before the end of the season.
Weather permitting we play in the cup semi against Plympton on Thursday night but the forecast doesnt look good. If the game is off I will contact as per usual.
I wont be at training on Saturday as I am off on a weeks holiday but Mark Rose and JV will be there as per usual along with Steve Cummings.
There is a game scheduled against Yelverton Mosquitos on Wednesday 29 at home and I will let everyone know who's playing later in the week.
I will miss that game and in my absence Dave Burke and Ian Swabey will be looking after everyone with Rhys Callicotts mum doing the scoring.