D DIVISION EAST
TIVERTON & Bickleigh traveled to leaders Ottery St. Mary sitting in fourth spot in the D Division East table, then beat the hosts by a margin of twelve runs and returned to Mid Devon as the new leaders!
Star of the show was undoubtedly Graham Turner who claimed the entire second half of the home batting line up just when Ottery thought they were closing in one another win themselves.
Turner will also start his next spell with the ball ‘on a hat-trick' after taking the last two Otters wickets with the final two balls of the days play. He finished with figures of 5-24 and Scott Hudson was also again amongst the wickets with his 4-28 as the Ottery innings was left a dozen runs short of the Tiverton offering of 159-6 in which Tim Read top scored with a gritty half century.
Saturday sees Tiverton & Bickleigh travel to Yarcombe & Stockland looking to strengthen their hold on the top spot.
Woodbury put Whimple into bat and produced their best performance with the ball so far this season. Whimple were reduced to 0 for 2 and 36 for 4, before skipper and opening bat Simon van Grudgings ground out a hard-working 46 with 4 fours and 1 six. He struggled to find much support, with only Sanjay Rajapakse (18) and Mike Searle (15) showing any signs of building a score. Dominic Hazell (4-45) and John Patterson (4-25) did most of the damage in a rain-interrupted first innings, with skipper Martin Cook taking 2-28, as the visitors were bowled out for 120 in 41.3 overs.
Only four overs of the second innings were bowled, but there was enough time for Daniel van Grudgings to dismiss Tim Greenslade for 1, before the captains called it a day at 5 for 1.