At last a sunny summer Sunday, albeit with many ladies missing for the Devon women's game, we are delighted to announce a full round with no abandonments or cancellations!

Harry Everett talks us through both divisions.

We have to start in a game where the player of the match was the easiest awarding of the season so far, one bowler bowled five balls and took wickets with all but one of those deliveries wrapping up the tail rather convincingly (plus then top-scored in the chase!)

A surprisingly low-scoring game on sunbaked ground came in the southwest of Devon. Plympton were inserted and reached just 59. K Harman’s 3-33 and E Gill’s remarkable 4-0 off five balls the chief destroyers for Paignton. Gill then opened and batted through for 32* to dominate the second innings also, no one else reaching double figures, Paignton winning by six wickets.

Last Sunday was very much a family affair with many siblings, mums and partners in action. We even saw some of the Devon Women’s League Executive Committee donning their playing kit.

Plymouth hosted Hatherleigh at Mount Wise but reached just 82 having opted to bat as Hatherleigh shared the wickets around. Chloe Dennis (47*) and Chloe Rose (20*) made the win emphatic, by 10 wickets, meaning our Chair Susannah Maxa and overseas rower Sophie Evans were not needed to bat or bowl as they helped make up the 11.

North Devon made 162, but Exeter chased it down in 27.5 overs. No one made 50 in the game, but Exeter’s top four all passing 22 knocked the back off the chase early.

In Division Two we first update from a sweltering Kensham Park:

Bradninch & Kentisbeare Women were beaten by 111 runs by Exmouth Women. Home skipper Meg Acton won the toss and invited Exmouth to bat. Openers Eloise Escott and Katelyn Clark took the score to 31 when, with the first ball of the ninth over, Florence Elliott, knocked over Clark's stumps for 14.

Escott fell to a catch held by Acton off the bowling of Heather Stanbury having scored 45 from 80 balls faced in a 104-minute stay at the wicket. Jasmyne Watson and Sharon Dawkins put together what, ultimately, proved to be a winning total, taking the score to 197 – adding 83 in just 50 balls.

211-5 was too much for B &K who subsided to Nelson for eight off their 35 overs despite Emma Farley and Yvonne Jackson’s 58-run opening stand.

For Exmouth and their bowling returns, undoubtedly the ‘pick’ was the 3-6 from the four overs delivered by Tory Bloom while Laila Escott returned figures of 2-30 from six.

Topsham St James lost to Taunton Deane 2s by eight wickets. TSJ opted to bat, but were bowled out for 103. Deane’s top four all got starts and won at a canter inside 11 overs taking down all bowlers except Lucy Humphreys whose miserly figures of 1-15 off four overs were particularly impressive in the circumstances.

Bovey Tracey beat Clyst St George by six wickets in a real team performance from both sides where no individual scored more than 34 and no bowler took more than two wickets.