The Beamer

And so it boils down to this. Four months after it began the cricket season comes to and end on Saturday and it’s been better than people give it credit for. For all the talk of standards being low, clubs struggling to field teams and players lacking interest the majority of the divisions have been tight. The bottom of the first, the bottom of the second and the top of the third have all gone down to the wire and if that doesn’t garner interest in the game then nothing will. The undoubted match of the day (quite possibly the match of the season) is at Carew where the hosts need just nine points to clinch the title and second placed Cresselly are the visitors. Can they overcome the 21 point gap? It will be interesting to see how Carew play it. Will they go for the win or settle for a draw? It’s not unconceivable that they could lose and still gain enough points to seal the title. At the bottom and Johnston’s win over Haverfordwest last week has really put the cat a

A little bit of history was made in Pembrokeshire last Saturday when Laugharne’s Kevin Pearce raised his bat for a double century on the fine batting track that is Pembroke Dock. It was the second double century of the season, the first time such a feat has ever occurred in Pembrokeshire cricket. A week rarely goes by these days without a century being scored in one of our five divisions but going one further for a double is still a rare occurrence. Pearce is a good player, a player with too good for division five but as the saying goes, you still have to score them and score them he certainly did. His innings helped the league’s new boys record their 12th win of the season to keep their unbeaten record intact. In truth it was never in doubt. As soon as the visitors were invited to bat the writing was on the wall for the home team and it didn’t take long for them to take the game away from the hosts. They declared on 324-1 in just 30 overs and given they play straigh