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St Ouen staked their claim for the Premiership Trophy last week with an uncompromising batting display, hitting an unheard 293 runs off the previously stingy Optimus bowling attack.

THERE was a programme on the other night about the Krays, and whilst it was interesting to see how they rose to prominence within the ganglands of London, I thought of equal interest was the reaction of the general public to them.

THE clocks may have gone back and the central heating system may be cranking back into life but cricket is still managing to find its way in to the sports pages of the JEP.

IN a couple of weeks time the Island will be losing Lynne Davis as she is moving to Torquay.

SO we won’t be cheering Jersey on in the next Cricket World Cup as an eventful week has seen their dreams of playing with the sport’s elite evaporate in the African heat.

JERSEY’S hopes of reaching the final of the ICC World Cricket League Division IV tournament were all but over after their first two matches in which they suffered defeats at the hands of Tanzania and Afghanistan.

HOPEFULLY news that Jersey have got their World Cup Division 4 campaign off to a winning start will be filtering its way back to the Island later on tomorrow, after their opening match against Tanzania.

LAST Friday’s NatWest Cricket Awards ceremony once again bought the curtain down on the league season, meaning for us mortals the end of cricket as we know it for about eight months.

ANY local interest in the Channel Island Knock Outs disappeared last Saturday when both Jersey sides were knocked out by their Guernsey opposition.

WITH last weekends matches rained off the highlight seemed to be the Beer Festival. Dennis Owen, whose picture was on the front of the Friday’s JEP is ‘of course’ an umpire, and his condoning of the event was enough to see the place heaving on Friday evening.