Live Blogging: Somerset Win 2012 Cup Match

August 3, 2012

[Updating - Somerset are the 2012 Cup Match Champions] The second day of the Cup Match game is expected to get underway soon, with both sides hoping for victory at the Cup Match Classic.

Somerset is captained by Jekon Edness and includes Malachi Jones, Janeiro Tucker, Chris Douglas, Kamau Leverock, Greg Maybury, Tre Manders, Derek Brangman, Stephen Outerbridge, Terryn Fray and Jacobi Robinson. The Reserves are Marcus Johnson, Shaquille Jones and Justin Corday.

St. George’s  is captained by Lionel Cann with his teammates including Rodney Trott, Delyone Borden, Glenn Blakeney, Allan Douglas, Kyle Hodsoll, Justin Pitcher, Stefan Kelly, Treadwell Gibbons, Jason Anderson and Fiqre Crockwell. The Reserves are Onias Bascome, Lateef Trott and Delray Rawlins.

Our latest updates will be posted on top as the day progresses. View all our Cup Match coverage here, and our Cup Match photo galleries here. Press you “F5″ key to refresh your screen and see the latest updates.

Update 6.00pm: They have presented the Cup, with skipper Jekon Edness accepting for Somerset

Update 4.55pm: They are getting ready to present the Cup, the players are all lined up wearing their blazers. Dignitaries including the Governor, Premier Paula Cox, Minister Zane DeSilva, Minister Michael Scott and Minister Walter Roban. All the politicians are wearing red/blue.

Update 4.24pm: It’s official…Somerset Cricket Club have won, they are the 2012 Cup Match Champions! Fans have rushed the field..photo below

Update 4.20pm: Any ball now could bring victory. Fans are starting to creep onto the sides of the field, ready to race the field

Update 4.18pm: Down to only 2 runs needed, Somerset could win on the next ball. Delay as Blakeney was down injured, he was carried off on a stretcher.

Update 4.14pm: Only 8 runs needed to win…victory is minutes away, people are lining up ready to run to the field….

Update 4.10pm: Somerset will win this game shortly, they only need just over a dozen runs to win

Update 4.00pm: Slight delay as fans overtake the field in excitement waving flags etc. Somerset are now getting ready to bat, they need just under 30 runs…video added below of the celebration when St George’s went out.

Update 3.47pm: Another wicket gone! St. George’ were bowled all out for 79 a lead of 27 runs, Rodney Trott was the top scorer with 24 before being run out, Gibbons was the next highest with 18 and Fiqre Criockwell was the only other batsman in double figures with 12. Greg Maybury was the pick of the Somerset bowlers with figures of 8.2-4-18-5, Malachi Jones had figures of 6.0-1-13-2 and Kamau Leverock bowled 7.0-2-26-2.

Update 3.42pm: Two men just ran around on the field wearing what looked like some form of underwear [?]

Update 3.29pm: Another wicket! Justin Pitcher is out, bowled by Malachi Jones. Kyle Hodsoll comes in. St George’s 77/9. At this stage, barring any remarkable turn of events, Somerset looks quite likely to win the Cup.

Update 3.16pm: Another wicket gone! Rodney Trott is out! Stefan Kelly is in. St George’s 73/8.

Update 3.09pm: St George’s 69/7. Trott on 20, Pitcher on 0.

Update 2.51pm: Another wicket gone! Douglas is out! St George’s 62/7. New batsman is Justin Pitcher. St George’s look to be in trouble, however there are many more hours of play left.

Update 2.46pm: St George’s 58/6. Trott on 14, Douglas on 0

Update 2.30pm: St George’s captain Lionel Cann is out for 4, and Somerset fans continue to get more excited as things continue to look up for them. St George’s 53/6.

Update 2.21pm: Wickets keep falling, Glenn Blakeney Jr is out, Somerset fans are beginning to get excited. St George’s 48/5

Update 2.11pm: St George’s 47/4. Trott on 9, Blakeney on 0

Update 1.57pm: Another wicket gone for St George’s, Crockwell was caught out by Terryn Fray [photo below] & Glenn Blakeney Jr in to bat. St George’s 43/4. St. George’s started their 2nd inning 52 runs behind.

Update 1.44pm: St George’s lose another wicket, Borden is out and Rodney Trott is coming in. St George’s 31/3.

Update 1.43pm: St George’s 27/2.

Update 1.38pm: Anderson is out, and a fan dragged a rubber duck across the field. Delyone Borden isn in. St George’s 21/2

Update 1.30pm: The game is just getting back underway after lunch

Update 12.51pm St George’s lose their first wicket, Gibbons is out on 18. As the two teams go to lunch the score is St. George’s 219 and 20/1 Somerset 271/9. Photo of an enthusiastic St George’s fan below.

Update 12.40pm: Video of Malachi Jones being caught out by Rodney Trott is added below, scroll down to the ’11.38am update’. There is an enthusiastic fan in the background who attempts runs onto the field, however trips and does some form of roll, but manages to get back up without ever letting go of his beverage.

Update 12.30pm: St George’s coming in to bat. They open their second inning with Treadwell Gibbons and Jason Anderson.

Update 12.25pm: Somerset’s innings came to an end when captain Jekon Edness was carried off the field with Somerset 271/8 and then Derek Brangman was caught off the very next ball.

Edness was the top scorer 57 retired, while Chris Douglas was the next high man with 33, Tre Manders added 29, while Terryn Fray scored 27, Malachi Jones scored 23 and Jacobi Robinson was at the wicket 21 not out.

In the Bowling department Delyone Borden led the St. George’s Cricket Club bowling attack with figures of 24.-4-78-4, while Kyle Hodsoll bowled 6.0-0-32-2, Stefan Kelly and Rodney Trott both grabbed a wicket each.

Update 12.12pm: They have brought a stretcher on the field and carried Jekon Edness off who is suffering from severe cramps. Big blow for Somerset.

Update 12.08pm: Somerset 267/8. Pause in play as physio is heading onto the field to attend to skipper Jekon Edness, who is down on the ground in obvious pain.

Update 12.04pm: Somerset 258/8. Edness on 52, Robinson on 12

Update 11.56am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 255/8. Edness on 51, Robinson on 11.

Update 11.46am: Somerset’s Captain Jekon Edness has got his half century, fans run on the field.

Update 11.38am: Malachi Jones is out, caught by Rodney Trott . Jacobi Robinson is in. Somerset 253/8

Update 11.30am: Somerset fans erupt as they pass St George’s 219. Somerset is now 235/7. Edness on 47, Jones on 19.

Update 11.26am: Somerset 217/7. Edness on 47, Jones on 6

Update 11.16am: Leverock is out, Malachi Jones is in. Somerset 198/7

Update 11.08am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 194/6. Edness on 33, Leverock on 7

Update 11.05am: Quick video clip of some of this morning’s cricket:

Update 10.58am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 175/6. Edness on 21, Leverock on 0.

Update 10.52am: Manders is out, 17-yr-old Kamau Leverock is in. Somerset 171/6 chasing St. George’s 219

Update 10.39am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 164/5. Manders on 27, Edness on 12

Update 10.34am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 157/5. Manders on 26, Edness on 10

Update 10.24am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 142/5. Manders on 21, Edness on 1

Update 10.17am: Maybury is out. St. George’s 219 Somerset 135/5. Manders is on 15, Somerset Captain Jekon Edness is on 0

Update 10.09am: Janeiro Tucker is out with 4. St George’s are pictured below celebrating.

Update 9.54am: St. George’s 219 Somerset 121/3

Update 9.33am: The game is under way

Update 9.03am: Players are making their way out onto the pitch. A few photos from this morning are below, more will be added as the day progresses.

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  1. Video Compilation: 2012 Cup Match Holiday | Bernews.com | August 8, 2012
  1. question says:

    A little off topic, but can Bernews let us know when Tyrone Smith is due to jump today and while we are all tuned in to CupMatch (St.Georges!!!) let’s not forget our Bermudian athletes overseas. An update on the olympics would be great!

  2. question says:

    Apologies Bernews, I jus saw the update to your website! Thanks for such excellent up to date coverage

  3. Dee Dee says:

    Go Somerset!!!!!! On the high seas cruising along, and still routing for the best team in the world!!!! Red and Blue, forever true!!

  4. Clifton Philpott says:

    Being a Bermudian living abroad I really appreciated having the game being broadcast on the net.

    My Somerset Team was victorious. I saw lots of family and friends… Aunt Myra you still have the moves!!!

    Clifton Philpott
    Vancouver, BC

    • Clifton Philpott says:

      Great job Ian and thanks Bertram and everyone else for a great presentation!

      Let’s pray that the peace and love continues forever!!!

  5. Bie No Bie! says:

    Tell me I ain’t de only one who just watched dat bie on de Malachi Jones video clip hop de fence with a Heineken, ate floor, rolled, flopped de recovery, and then kept runnin with de Heineken STILL in hand like nothing happened?! LMAO CUPPP MATCHHH!!!

    • 2 Braceletz says:

      LMAO!!!!! I saw it that is HILARIOUSSSSS! The reaction of the guys sitting at the table behind the fence was even funnier. He was NOT letting go of that drink! Gotta love Bermudians!

    • Politely Pompous says:

      OMG-I laughed so hard when I saw that! He wasn’t letting that drink go for anything…he’d rather break dem bones than drop dat drink!

  6. g-gurl says:

    YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !

  7. Errin Butterfield says:

    Firstly congratulations to Somerset secondly well done to St. George’s for playing a fair game. To all those critics toward Somerset’s team. Where are you now and what do you have to say for yourself? Making negative comments about this person or that person, the selectors being bias, and talking about jumping ship using pen names such as “let God deal wit it,Moms Gingerbread,Tidbit,Cipmatch,K,Eye 4 Eye,Reality,Bda sinkin ship,and Nuffin but de truth. I have a message for The Somerset team: Continue doing what you are doing,work hard,and come to play positve cricket next year and love the people who are negative,gossip and hate after all you created them.For St. George’s: Hold your heads high, work hard, be encouraged and ignore the naysayers don’t let any negativity get in your way let it go away like water rolls off of a duck’s back.Maybe some of you previous negative critics will say something positive using your same pen name.Maybe some of you won’t hide behind a pen name.Fyi replies under pen names will be ignored so waste your time if you want.

    • Taurean Manders says:

      I couldn’t have said it better myself!

  8. cs says:

    About Bleady Time They win !!!! I was beginning to wonder why people still even supported them as their team !

  9. William says:

    Well, like East Ends always said
    The Cups like Tar,
    it aint goin far.

    ; )

    West end needed to feel some positive energy : )

  10. Tidbit says:

    Errin it is interesting to see you do read other comments. Congrats to Somerset. However that still does not eradicate my opinion on favourtism in the Somerset camp. Also how do we expect to improve our standard of cricket in Bermuda if we make such an awful cricket crease. Even Lionel Cann admitted it was the worst wicket he has played on in 19 years of Cup Match. The question you should be asking, since you are obviously a Somerset supporte, is when shall we raise our overall standard of cricket. It doesnt concern you why we are not successful on the world stage? With cricket creases prepared like that is definitely an indication of our poor preparation. At the end of the day yes Somerset won the the game, but my question to you Errin is did cricket itself with?

    • Taurean Manders says:

      Yes cricket itself did win. Cup match is for the whole atmosphere. The game was good despite the pitch. Both teams had to play on it and I saw great batting. By both teams. So the pitch is the pitch. It’s not one sided. Both teams still made over 200. So I dont want to hear abput the pitch. Was a great game. And all I have to say is….. Jekon Edness! Tre Manders! Greg Maybury! Enough said! Somerset!!!!!!!!!! Enjoyed the beach fear I hope….I enjoyed some good cricket. By some of Bermuda’s BEST. Simple!

      • Taurean Manders says:

        Beachfest*

      • Errin Butterfield says:

        Mr.Manders I totally agree with you.A Pen name wants to Qoute what Lionel Cann(who I am not attacking in anyway and who I regard as a good cricketer,definitely one of the best on the Island presently)said, but somehow the pen name missed that Lionel Cann himself was big enough to say that cricket was the real winner

        • Taurean Manders says:

          Notice all of them are shut up now. I don’t hear anything now. Lol….. People are funny!!

  11. Nice to See says:

    Congratulations Somerset! Somerset is my team. I watched from the game from TV – what was most beautiful was there were whites and blacks and all types of nationalities and everyone seemed to get along and enjoy the day. What a Joy to see!

  12. Errin Butterfield says:

    In my opinion,the colts picked to play Cup Match deservered to play.Sometimes people make comments without the knowledge of the persons or situations they are commenting on before giving those same people a chance, similar to putting the cart before the horse I’d say. Well done to the colts of both teams, you done well.Now that they can’t complain about you some are complaing about the wicket.I will not attempt to justify a bad wicket because it is just not acceptable.One only needs to go back a year in St.george’s with a St.George’s victory to hear complaints about the wicket,go back to 2005 St. George’s took the cup from Somerset in St.George’s on what was said to be a bad wicket. A bad wicket is a bad wicket in Somerset or St.George’s. Some people talk about favouritism when they are in the same basket.

  13. Taurean Manders says:

    I put it in a reply but I’m saying it again just because!

    JEKON EDNESS! TRE MANDERS! GREG MAYBURY! Enough said! SOMERSET!!!!!!!!!!!

    And not discounting the rest of the team cause there definitely was other performers, 11 players. But the people who read the dumb comments when the teams came out know why I singled out those three players.

  14. Errin Butterfield says:

    Jekon Edness,Tre Manders,Greg Maybury,Jacobi Robinson and the rest of Somerset team and anyone on St. George’s team who had their doubters and personal haters I say this” Love your haters after all you created them”

  15. Cricket Fan says:

    Hey…!!! a strong shout out to Allen, Wendell and Sluggo, Excellent, Excellent job on the radio…

  16. Greg Maybury says:

    hi,

    is it possible to get the video at 3.47pm please?

    you can send it to this email.

    thanks,
    Greg Maybury

  17. Colin Macrae Lambert says:

    I have been living in the United States for over 35 years. Thank you BERNEWS.COM for providing those of us who live overseas the opportunity to participate in this classic battle!

    Will you be making available DVDS for sale? CONGRATULATION TO THE GREATEST CRICKET ON THE PLANET!!!!