npower Village Cup final, Lord’s, September 14 2009

Glynde and Beddingham (207-9) beat Streethouse (201) by six runs

It was the victory of south over north but in the end it was a Yorkshireman who won the 2009 npower Village Cup for Glynde and Beddingham Cricket Club. Under attack from two Streethouse batsmen who were evidently in the zone, Mark Beddis, the one Glynde player not heralding from Sussex, took both wickets in the penultimate over of the match and with them the Village Cup.

That the match would be tight at all seemed unlikely after Glynde had passed 200 in their 40 overs. Streethouse – from west Yorkshire – started well with the priceless wicket of Dominic Shepheard but his tall partner Joe Adams refused to budge. Callum Smith came and went quickly but managed to score a succesion of boundaries through a ring of close fielders. Adams, omniously quiet in the early overs, started striking the ball cleanly and breezed past a fifty off 68 balls.

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