A GROUP of players from Minehead and Watchet cricket teams went to the T20 Finals Day to support Somerset last weekend dressed as the Croatian water polo team!
Unfortunately, they did not bring Somerset any luck with the cider county losing to Gloucestershire in the final.
The Cidermen’s big guns failed and the batters struggled to score against an accurate and well drilled Gloucestershire attack that took the pace off the ball.
They slipped to 42 for four in the seventh over and it was left to skipper Lewis Gregory to try to put a defendable total on the board. Sadly, nobody else stayed with him and after he was out for 53 which he scored off 37 balls and included three fours and two sixes Somerset were all out for 124 in 19.4 overs.
When the Gloucesters replied they never looked in trouble as openers Cameron Bancroft and Miles Hammond took the score onto 112 before Josh Davey had Bancroft caught on the boundary by Will Smeed for 53 in the 14th over. Ollie Price hit the winning runs with a six off Jake Ball to see his side to 129 for two with five overs to spare.
Richard Walsh