The Somerset Board Eleven endured the frustrations of the English weather yesterday, when they travelled to Exmouth only to be greeted by a downpour that led to their 38 County match against Devon being abandoned without a ball being bowled.

The game had originally been scheduled to take place at Taunton, but in the light of the heavy rain that had fallen at the County Ground, on Friday it was switched to Exmouth because the south coast seemed to have missed out on the storms.

In the end the Somerset Board players had a wasted journey, and they had to settle for a point from the washed out game.

Somerset Board Eleven manager Peter Robinson told me this morning: "We were disappointed not to play, especially as we had strengthened our team with Joe Tucker and Pete Trego, and we would have been playing against a number of former Somerset players, including Ian Bishop, Gareth Townsend and of course Peter Roebuck."

`Robbo' continued: "Now it all depends on our last two games against Dorset at Dean Park on June 9th and then against Cornwall at North Perrott a week later. We need to win both of those games to give ourselves a chance of going through."

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