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MINOR MATTERS Minor Counties Championship preview

Details: Created on Sunday, 21 July 2019 07:47; Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 11:50; Published on Sunday, 21 July 2019 07:47

England Under-19 international Luke Hollman will make his debut for defending champions Berkshire in their Minor Counties Championship match against Cheshire at Finchampstead today (1100).

Hollman, a batsman/leg-spinner, is a member of the Middlesex Academy and will make his debut as part of Berkshire’s mutually-beneficial relationship with the first-class county.

CORNWALL CRICKET Penzance soaring at Premier summit

Details: Created on Sunday, 14 July 2019 09:31; Last Updated on Monday, 15 July 2019 10:18; Published on Sunday, 14 July 2019 09:31; Written by MICHAEL WEEKS Cornwall Cricket correspondent

Penzance streteched their Cornwall Premier Cricket League lead to 18 points after beating St Austell by 100 runs.

Second placed Redruth lost to Werrington, who take closer order in third place.

MINOR MATTERS Champions beat Wales, Dorset win

Details: Created on Tuesday, 09 July 2019 18:59; Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 12:08; Published on Tuesday, 09 July 2019 18:59; Written by PAUL BOLTON Minor Counties cricket correspondent

Ecb Logo Defending Minor Counties champions Berkshire made two wins out of two crushing Wales by 220 runs at the Falkland cricket club in Newbury.

Former Middlesex slow left-armer Chris Peploe was Berkshire’s match-winner with a career-best match haul of 13 for 80 which included remarkable second innings figures of 15.5-8-14-7.

MINOR MATTERS Wiltshire beat Cornwall by an innings

Details: Created on Monday, 08 July 2019 20:00; Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 July 2019 12:07; Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 20:00; Written by PAUL BOLTON Minor Counties cricket correspondent

Wiltshire routed Cornwall by an innings inside two days at Corsham.

Despite beating Oxfordshire in their opening Minor Counties Championship match, Cornwall were shot out for 87 in their second innings and beaten by an innings and 74 runs.

MINOR MATTERS Lintott and King put Cornwall in a spin

Details: Created on Monday, 08 July 2019 08:13; Last Updated on Monday, 08 July 2019 14:15; Published on Monday, 08 July 2019 08:13; Written by PAUL BOLTON Minor Counties cricket correspondent

Wiltshire spinners Jake Lintott and Joe King took eight wickets between them to trigger a Cornwall collapse at Corsham.

Cornwall appeared in little trouble when they reached 155 for two but they crumbled to 184 all out after Lintott, the former Hampshire and Gloucestershire slow left-armer Lintott, had player/coach Greg Smith stumped.