Cornwall County Women's Cricket 2002

Devon v Cornwall at Instow on Sunday 14th July (Shield Match)

Somerset v Cornwall on Sunday 21st July (S W Counties Championship)

Cornwall v Devon at Rosudgeon CC on Sunday 4th August  (S W Counties Championship)

Cornwall v Dorset at Werrington CC on Sunday 18th August (S W Counties Championship)

Cornwall v The Netherlands at Axminster Town C C on Wednesday 21st August (Representative Match)

Cornwall v The Netherlands at Axminster Town C C on Wednesday 21st August (40 over game)

The Netherlands 243-5: Helmien Rambaldo 119no, Birgit Viguurs 40, Inge Leurs 32, Clare Williamson 1-34, Rachael Eustice 1-34, Karen Shepley 1-45.

Cornwall 129: Viv Searle 48, Adele Jewell 15, Debbie Mitchell 15; Kirstan Zorab 3-11, Birgir Viguurs 3-25, Marjolyn Molenaar 3-35.

The Netherlands beat Cornwall by 114 runs.

Cornwall v Dorset at Werrington CC on Sunday 18th August

Dorset 131-6: Sue Wallis 39, Vicky Collier 38; Viv Searle 3-18, Rachael Eustice 2-19

Cornwall 132-4: Kathy Billing 39no, Adele Jewell 27, Viv Searle 26, Sue Leathley 15; Sue Wallis 3-27

Cornwall beat Dorset by 6 wickets with 10 overs to spare to win the Championship

Cornwall v Devon at Rosudgeon CC on Sunday 4th August

The Cornwall Women's County team produced an excellent display to defeat Devon in their opening South West Counties Championship game.. Needing a modest 127 from their 40 overs Cornwall's openers Viv Searle, playing on her home ground, and Falmouth's Sue Leathley all but did the job themselves. Batting sensibly with runs coming at around three per over throughout the innings they put on 114 for the first wicket. Leathley was lbw to Kathy Griffin for 44. There was an 'unfortunate' dismissal when Kathy Billing was run out by the bowler, backing up at the non strikers end, for 7 but Searle cracked the winning four through extra cover soon after to start the Cornish celebrations. Searle ended on 57 having hit 7 fours as the target was convincingly passed with over 6 overs to spare.

Earlier an excellent display in the field restricted the Devon total. Women's South West CDO Jackie Summers dominated the Devon top order hitting 44 in good time. After her dismissal at 55-3 the Cornish bowlers got on top. All six bowlers used bowled tidily but star of the show was young Tideford player Karen Shepley of who had superb figures of 2 for 10 off 8 overs. Falmouth's teenager Clare Williamson, who is a regular Cornwall League player for Wendron, and Rosudgeon's Adele Jewell also took a couple of wickets apiece as wickets continued to tumble.

With Somerset having withdrawn from the Championship Cornwall can win the title when they play Dorset at Werrington on Sunday 18th August. They follow this game with an 'international' match against Holland to be played at Axminster, Devon on Wednesday 21st August.

DEVON

Jackie Summers c & b A Jewell 44

Jane White b C Williamson 0

Jodie Mills c V Searle b K Shepley 6

Jenny Thorne c C Williamson b A Jewell 7

Cathy Griffin st M Richards b V Searle 13

Karen Harvey c C Williamson b K Shepley 1

Ann Martin run out 12

Helen Martin not out 14

Sam Catlin b R Eustice 4

Michelle Johnson c & b C Williamson 3

Coralie Mealand not out 0

Extras 22

Total (9 wkts, 40 overs) 126

Fall: 21-43-55-65-77-93-105-115-122

Bowling: R Eustice 7-0-29-1, C Williamson 7-2-24-2, K Shepley 8-2-10-2, A Jewell 5-0-20-2, D Mitchell 8-1-19-0, V Searle 5-0-19-1

CORNWALL

Viv Searle not out 57

Sue Leathley lbw b K Griffin 44

Kathy Billing run out 7

Sarah Thomas not out 0

Extras 21

Total (2 wkts) 129

Fall: 114-126

Bowling: S Catlin 7-1-26-0, K Griffiths 8-1-24-1, J Summers 6-1-25-0, K Harvey 3.5-0-11-0, H Martin 4-0-16-0, M Johnson 2-0-10-0, J Mills 3-0-15-0

Umpires: C Polkinghorne & P Thomas

Cornwall beat Devon by 8 wickets. with 6.1 overs to spare

Somerset v Cornwall at Queens College, Taunton on Sunday 21st July

                                                 MATCH OFF

Somerset withdrew from the fixture on the Tuesday afternoon prior to the game being unable to fulfil the fixture.

Devon Women v Cornwall Women at Instow on Sunday 14th July

Result Match Tied: Cornwall 150-8: Devon 150-8

Cornwall Women travelled to Instow, North Devon on Sunday for their opening match of the season in the annual Cornwall v Devon shield encounter. It proved to be a great day with a thrilling game finishing all square as a tie. Devon scrambling a single off the last ball after 12 had been needed off the last over. Cornwall made a good start with Viv Searle 16 and Sue Leathley 46 putting on 47 for the first wicket in 12 overs. Four wickets fell for 17 runs but Jo Timmins with 23 batted soundly to add 72 for the fifth wicket with Leathley. Cornwall reached 150-8 in their 40 overs. Devon just about kept up with the rate but lost wickets at regular intervals. At 99-6 in the 31st over the odds looked in Cornwall's favour but in an exciting finish Devon all but reached their target. Debbie Michell took 3 for 23 and there were two wickets apiece for Adele Jewell and Karen Shepley with two excellent stumpings from Marilyn Richards.

CORNWALL

Viv Searle b K Harvey 16

Sue Leathley c wk b G Jones 46

Kathryn Billing lbw b C Ashby 2

Rachael Eustice c wk b G Jones 1

Adele Jewell b C Griffin 3

Jo Timmins not out 23

Karen Shepley b C Griffin 6

Clare Williamson b C Griffin 2

Helen Angove b C Griffin 0

Marilyn Richards dnb

Debbie Mitchell dnb

Extras 51

Total (8 wkts, 40 overs) 150

Fall: 47-50-54-64-136-143-150-150

Bowling: J Summers 4-0-15-0, H Martin 8-0-30-0, C Ashby 6-1-13-1, K Harvey 6-0-23-1, G Jones 6-0-25-2, C Griffin 6-0-12-4, J Mills 4-0-23-0

DEVON

J White st M Richards b D Mitchell 15

L Smith lbw b A Jewell 31

C Ashby c & b D Mitchell 10

J Summers b D Mitchell 7

J Thorn b K Shepley 2

J Mills c & b A Jewell 4

C Griffin not out 18

G Jones run out 1

H Martin st M Richards b K Shepley 6

K Harvey not out 14

A Martin dnb

Extras 43

Total (8 wkts, 40 overs) 150

Fall: 49-66-73-82-92-99-117-136

Bowling: C Williamson 4-0-17-0, R Eustice 7-0-26-0, V Searle 5-0-21-0, A Jewell 8-0-28-2, D Mitchell 8-2-23-3, K Shepley 8-0-27-2

Cornwall tied with Devon.

The selected team was

Rachael Eustice, Capt. (Rosudgeon),

Helen Angove (Falmouth),

Kathyrn Billing (Mt Ambrose),

Adele Jewell (Rosudgeon),

Sue Leathley (Falmouth),

Debbie Mitchell (Mt Ambrose),

Marilyn Richards, wk. (Rosudgeon),

Viv Searle (Rosudgeon),

Karen Shepley (Tideford),

Sarah Thomas (Mt Ambrose),

Claire Williamson (Falmouth).

Jo Timmins (Bude)

Due to an injury to Sarah Thomas following selection Jo Timmins (Bude) is a replacement.

The 40 over game commences at 1pm. Three matches in the Women's South West Counties Championship will follow: Sun 21st July Somerset at Queen's College, Taunton; Sun 4th August Devon at Rosudgeon CC and Sunday 18th August Dorset at Werrington CC

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