Devon Seniors CricketDevon Seniors are always on the look out for new players!
We run two men's Over 50s sides, two Over 60s sides, an Over 70s team and a Friendly XI. We are hoping to have a Women's Seniors side playing in 2025... Just browse the website for more information.. |
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India Tour
You can follow what's happening on tour in India here:
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Some Fixtures for 2025 have been published: Over 60s 1s :: Over 60s 2s :: Over 70s :: Over 50s 2s
Pre Season Indoor Nets in March/April 2025
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On Sunday 11th January a Devon Seniors squad leaves for India on a two week tour! They'll be playing matches in Mumbai and Cochin and hopefully will be able to provide updates on this page... Safe trip all, and have a great time!
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These have been booked at Exeter University for the following days & times:
Electronic Scoring Training CoursesThis course is designed to give people confidence to score on PCS Pro, which is used on a laptop. The courses are free and are at:
Saturday 1st February: Cullompton Cricket Club: 10am -15:00pm https://booking.ecb.co.uk/ODXz5g or Sunday 2nd March: Bovey Tracey Cricket Club: 10am-15:00pm https://booking.ecb.co.uk/rXP3NP |
Over 60s 1st XI 2024 Report
The first eleven continues to make good progress and this year for the first time in a few years managed to get through to the second round of the cup proper finishing second behind Wales.
Although the team achieved good victories against Kent, Sussex and Oxford ( Twice ) we came unstuck on our travels with significant losses to Kent and Sussex, an amazing tie against Northants kept us in with a shout of the semis but unfortunately the team just failed at the last fence.
Before I go into some stats, I would like to thank all the players that turned out for me this year, you all deserve a pat on the back and you did our county proud . Hopefully we are all looking after our highly tuned athletic bodies ( or helping them to heal ) and we can achieve more success next season.
Interesting to note that our top 4 batters scored over 2000 runs between them and I think I’m right in saying no other county managed to achieve this.
Leading performers: From an allrounder perspective Chris Cook with 296 runs and 20 wickets continues to impress. Paul Bates was our leading wicket taker with 25 wickets and as I always say, cricket is a game of angles and with his left arm around the wicket he certainly had the measure of quite a few right handers.
However after due consideration and it was a tight call this year, my player of the season goes to Steve Luffman with 669 runs at an average of 51.46, this included 2 centuries and 3 fifties. On top of all this when Derick Solomon got badly injured playing bowls, ( Sorry Del ) Luffers stepped up to the plate and took over the gloves. One game that will always remain in my thoughts was played at Braunton where Luffers destroyed the oppositions bowling hitting 13 sixes and keeping some of our players busy in the adjoining field – amazing !!!!
It appears that next season yet again will be a very busy one with a potential 22 games plus a fixture against an Australian XI and some friendlies.
As always, my sincere thanks to our scorer Alan Webster and our umpires Dave Hawke and John Gadie.
Roger Wensley
Devon Seniors Over 60’s First Eleven Captain
Although the team achieved good victories against Kent, Sussex and Oxford ( Twice ) we came unstuck on our travels with significant losses to Kent and Sussex, an amazing tie against Northants kept us in with a shout of the semis but unfortunately the team just failed at the last fence.
Before I go into some stats, I would like to thank all the players that turned out for me this year, you all deserve a pat on the back and you did our county proud . Hopefully we are all looking after our highly tuned athletic bodies ( or helping them to heal ) and we can achieve more success next season.
Interesting to note that our top 4 batters scored over 2000 runs between them and I think I’m right in saying no other county managed to achieve this.
Leading performers: From an allrounder perspective Chris Cook with 296 runs and 20 wickets continues to impress. Paul Bates was our leading wicket taker with 25 wickets and as I always say, cricket is a game of angles and with his left arm around the wicket he certainly had the measure of quite a few right handers.
However after due consideration and it was a tight call this year, my player of the season goes to Steve Luffman with 669 runs at an average of 51.46, this included 2 centuries and 3 fifties. On top of all this when Derick Solomon got badly injured playing bowls, ( Sorry Del ) Luffers stepped up to the plate and took over the gloves. One game that will always remain in my thoughts was played at Braunton where Luffers destroyed the oppositions bowling hitting 13 sixes and keeping some of our players busy in the adjoining field – amazing !!!!
It appears that next season yet again will be a very busy one with a potential 22 games plus a fixture against an Australian XI and some friendlies.
As always, my sincere thanks to our scorer Alan Webster and our umpires Dave Hawke and John Gadie.
Roger Wensley
Devon Seniors Over 60’s First Eleven Captain
Over 60s 2s Season Report 2024
It was another challenging but enjoyable season in probably the strongest 2nd XI division in the country, ultimately there are three sides that dominate who are incredibly difficult to beat, however, despite losing 2 games to the weather against the weaker sides, we managed a couple of wins and finished in 5th position in the South West division, and thus qualifying for the Bowl competition. This took us on our travels to Shropshire, Middlesex, and Cheshire where we were drawn to play another away game in our semi-final at Neston CC, on the cusp of the river Mersey, unfortunately losing out to a one man hundred.
You can read the full report below...
You can read the full report below...
| 60s 2nd XI REPORT 2024 |
Over 50s ECB Championship Competition Update
The below is a message we have received from the ECB:
Following a challenging business planning process for the 2025 season, all ECB departments have had to make some difficult financial decisions for the next few years in line with the strategic objectives of the business. Some of these decisions have included no longer financially supporting some activities in the future.
I am sorry to announce that the ECB 50+ County Championship competition is one of these that has been affected and therefore ECB is no longer is a position to financially support the competition. The budget that we have had for the competition covered the cost of cricket balls as well as competition delivery and the running of the final at a neutral venue.
We realise that this message may come as a surprise to you and you will be disappointed by the news. ECB have explored a number of potential options but have not been able to secure funding to continue to support the competition in the future.
Rest assured the Committee is looking in to options to carry the competition forward.
Thank you Ian & Gazza! |
New Captains for 2025 |
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Thanks to everyone who contributed and attended the curry night and the opportunity to present Ian Western & Gazza with a “thank you” gift for umpiring and scoring last season, and for Ian an appreciation from Devon Seniors CC for 11 years service umpiring for the 60s seconds. That's a lot of decisions!!!
Neil Matthews |
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Congrats to the Captains elected at the AGM for the 2025 season:
50s 1s: Steve Moore 50s 2s: Steve Broad 60s 1s: Roger Wensley 60s 2s: Martin Goff 70s: Tom Stanton |
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New CommitteePresident: Dave Gambie
Chair: Ian Hayter Secretary: Dave Turner Treasurer: Andy Rose Plus captains. More info on our Contacts page |
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PETE ROSE MEMORIAL GAME at Shobrooke
A fine-weather day saw a fitting turnout of old faces in tribute to a much-missed member of the Club.
A good number of the team who had famously lifted the National 50s trophy in 2002 were there along with more recent team-mates from his days in the 60s and 70s.
Chris Theedom recalled how crucial Pete’s contribution had been to the Final’s win – 9-2-14-2 – but also to his generous nature and his interest in fellow humans.
Barry Flicker shared even older memories of their days together as riotous youths in Somerset and even had a photo from the local paper dated almost exactly 50 years earlier showing both Pete ( unrecognisable) and Barry ( almost so) revelling in a day out at the cricket.
Pete and Sue’s twin boys Jamie and Martin spoke movingly of having such an astute cricketer for a father, and Jamie of the innings they once put together to rescue Shobrooke Park from relegation.
An abundant and appetising tea was put together by Sue and little remained by the end of the day.
A good number of the team who had famously lifted the National 50s trophy in 2002 were there along with more recent team-mates from his days in the 60s and 70s.
Chris Theedom recalled how crucial Pete’s contribution had been to the Final’s win – 9-2-14-2 – but also to his generous nature and his interest in fellow humans.
Barry Flicker shared even older memories of their days together as riotous youths in Somerset and even had a photo from the local paper dated almost exactly 50 years earlier showing both Pete ( unrecognisable) and Barry ( almost so) revelling in a day out at the cricket.
Pete and Sue’s twin boys Jamie and Martin spoke movingly of having such an astute cricketer for a father, and Jamie of the innings they once put together to rescue Shobrooke Park from relegation.
An abundant and appetising tea was put together by Sue and little remained by the end of the day.
A view from the Boundary: Graham Darke, Brent HowardDave Amery Chris Theedom, Katy Lott Lott, Janet Howard, Stuart Lott, and "Prowling" Fred Harding
How many runs, how many wickets do you see here? LtoR:
Steve Ripley,Phil Arbourne, Tom Stanton,Stuart Lott,Dave (legs) Amery Richard Cavendish, Dave Gambie
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