Saturday 24 July Close of play report.

at north street. for west of england premier league 1st division action. 2nd from bottom downend vs clevedon, 2nd from top. the great w g grace was raised just opposite the cricket  club  although he never actually played for down end. dom bes has played for clevedon in the past. 2 go down from the league, downend in the final relegation place. bottom up from the table as follows: taunton dean, 100, downend 102, cheltenham and chippenham 106. then a large gap to 147. clevedon skittled for 147. 

phil jackson, 3 for 36 and oli louch, 3 for 12, the pick of the down end bowlers. camron harding, 46 and laurie woodland, 31, top scoring for the seasiders on a cloudy overcast afternoon in north east bristol.

 Result from North Street and Clevedon  romp  home by 61 runs.  they blew away down end's top order with consumate ease, matt carpenter, the destroyer in chief, with 6 for 32, to leave them reeling on 15  for 7. matt jackson, 21,  and oli louch, 26 shared an 8th wicket partnership of 51 before louch was cleaned up by  carpenter, who verbally abused him to send him on his way. 

 some heated exchanges between both teams ensued for a good ten minutes before the unpire managed to calm the situation. 

downend's relegation fears continue, whilst the seasiders will be dreaming of regaining their title they won in 2019. 

  they take 18 points back to dial hill, whilst downend take 5. also bumped into richard elison, whose son plays for clevedon. he Happily regaled us  tales of his most famous test match bowling spell, which took place on the fourth evening of the fourth test at Edgbaston versus Australia in 1985.  where he dismantled their top order in fading light. One of the victims  being a certain allan  border.