Just minutes after seeing Somerset Sabres beat Surrey Lions in front of a full house at The County Ground Somerset Coach Kevin Shine told me: "After that sort of performance of course we can still stay up. Before tonight our target was to win four out of the five matches left, now it is to win three out of the four."

As he looked over the balcony at the large number of supporters on the pitch below he said: "It was good to entertain a packed house, there was a lovely family atmosphere in the ground, and this year we produced the goods to send them home happy."

What were the highlights of the game? "It was a fabulous effort all round. Ian Blackwell brought us back into the game with his good spell of bowling. One of the features was that we put a good squeeze on them, because at one stage they were looking at 270-plus. We have become better at doing that. We then had a great batting start, 'Blacky' came in and went for it from the start, whilst Peter Bowler batted the way that we wanted, and then Mike Burns came in and took it on for us."

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