COUNTIES CRICKET T20 Doubles for Devon and Wales
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- Created on Sunday, 31 May 2026 18:48
- Last Updated on Monday, 01 June 2026 08:39
- Published on Sunday, 31 May 2026 18:48
- Written by PAUL BOLTON Cricket Correspondent
Wales won the opener at Challow & Childrey by 43 runs after Owain Baxter (83) and Glamorgan man Callum Nicholls (53) had added 97 for the third wicket to take them to 199 for three.
Oxfordshire’s made 156 for nine but were kept in check by three wickets from Ollie Sherwood.
Nicholls followed up with 38 in the second match but it was Rhodri Lewis’s 76 that was largely responsible for getting Wales to 210 for seven.
Oxfordshire’s reply comprised of a series of cameos headed by Hayden Rossouw’s 38 and they were beaten by 30 runs.
Ben Privett made 98, Devon’s highest individual T20 score, to set up an 18 runs victory over Dorset in the opener at Wimborne in Group Four.
Privett’s score was one more than Rob Woodman made against Wiltshire at Sidmouth in 2015, the first season of the T20 competition.
James Matravers weighed in with 44 to take Devon to 204 for five with Dylan Church top-scoring with 45 in Dorset’s 186 for seven.
Church followed up with 81 not out in the second match but Dorset fell 21 short after they had been set a target of 162.
Bedfordshire lead Group Three, two points clear of Wales, despite being shot out for 85 by Buckinghamshire in the second match at Leighton Buzzard.
Bedfordshire got themselves in a tangle against the left-arm spin of Buckinghamshire captain Conner Haddow and were beaten by 107 runs which was Buckinghamshire’s record victory by runs margin.
Rhys Nicholas had a productive day for Buckinghamshire with 62 in the second match to go with 46 in the opener which Bedfordshire won by seven wickets with almost five overs to spare.
Jamie Dunk’s competition-best 82 from 37 balls and an unbeaten 42 from Danyaal Khalid, with whom he shared a third wicket stand of 92, made light work of a target of 165.
The closest matches of the day were both at Westbury where Wiltshire and Cornwall tied the opener before Wiltshire edged the second by nine runs.
Until this season there had been only one tie in the history of the competition but there have now been two in successive Sundays after Staffordshire and Northumberland finished level last week.
At Westbury each side finished on 146 for eight with Cyrus Shafi (47) and Will Naish (42) the main contributors to Wiltshire’s total and former Kent and Sussex spinner Elliot Hooper taking three for 21.
Alfie MacDonald, who had batted only once in his five previous matches in the competition, led the chase with 59 not out from 42 balls with Hooper supporting him with 30. MacDonald needed three from Will Brown’s last ball to win the game but, having scampered two to level the scores, Ben Ellis was run out going for the third run.
In the second match Wiltshire captain Ed Young’s competition best 83 not out from 57 balls and a fourth wicket partnership of 63 with Shafi (21) rescued them from 18 for three.
Will Macvicar kept Cornwall in the hunt with 68 not out from 47 balls but Tom Orpe (28) was the only other batter to reach 20 and they were reined in by Brown (one for 19) and Sam Freestone (two for 22).
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