Another resoundingly successful Cornwall Youth Festival ended on Friday evening at St Gluvias Cricket Club, with Cornish sides and their guests from the south-east of England sharing the honours, though Falmouth were clearly the most successful individual club.

Over six days in Penryn, with many games taking place at Penryn College, hundreds of young players each played around two full days of cricket and the many trophies and prizes were well distributed amongst them. A feature of the event was that, in parallel with the trend in all levels of cricket as batsmen have expanded the boundaries of what it is possible to achieve in a limited number of overs. higher scores were required to make sure of victory in a limited number of overs.

Improvised strokes and a greater adventurousness, much of it learnt from watching the top modern cricketers, have sent run rates soaring.

There were numerous scores of over 170 runs in ten eight-ball overs (one of 216), though it should be noted that all of the competitions are now for teams of just eight players per side.

Full report in this week's issue.