Matt Golding - back in Devon's plans this season<br>credit: www.ppauk.com

CRASH, bang, wallop cricket returns to Seaton on Sunday when Devon play two Twenty20 practice games at Court Lane.

Seaton used to be a regular venue for Minor Counties Cricket during the 1950s, but had dropped off the fixture list by the end of the decade.

The last time Devon played any sort of game there was in 1999 when Somerset 2ndXI paid a visit for a 50-over friendly. Devon won the match by three wickets.

This game is between Devon X – skippered by county captain Matt Thompson – and Devon Y, who will be led by Zak Bess.

Rory Thomas, a batsman who left Bradninch for Sidmouth during the close season, is one of a number of players given a first chance at this level. He plays in the X XI along with medium quick Louis Stephenson (Heathcoat) Plymstock seamer Rob Cunningham.

All-rounder Matt Golding, missing from Devon sides last season as he was living and working in Australia, is in the X XI having returned home.

Barnstaple’s highly rated all-rounder Jack Moore was picked but has dropped out due to a broken toe. Paignton seamer Cole Harford was also in the initial squad. A soccer injury has ruled him out.

Sidmouth pair Tom Simmonds and Luke Bess have been added to the squads.

Devon team boss Dave Tall still wants to have a look at youth system graduates such as Sonny Baker, Ed Hamilton, Ben Beaumont and Ben Privett. All are likely to be offered Lions Development XI games during May.

Start time is 11am and spectators will be able to use the bar and watch the game from one of numerous deck chairs round the ground.

Devon X: M W Thompson (St Fagans), R J Thomas (Sidmouth), M C Golding (Bovey Tracey), L Stephenson (Heathcoat). J F S Dart (Heathcoat), R Cunningham (Plymstock), J E Thompson (Congresbury), E W O Middleton (Exeter), T J R Codd (Bovey Tracey), T Simmonds (Sidmouth).

Devon Y: Z G G Bess (Sidmouth), J A Stephens (Taunton Deane), D J Goodey (Bashley), L J Lewis (Heathcoat). G B Allen (Torquay), M J Petherbridge (Plymouth). J H J Mailling (Bovey), J V King (North Devon), J Degg (Torquay), H J Kerton (Plymstock), E W Adams (Abbotskerswell), L F O Bess (Sidmouth).