St Just win the 2025 Bradleys Vinter Cup
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Wednesday 2 July 2025
Camborne - St Just 153-7 (P Nicholas 53, R Brownfield 21, C Edirisinghe 20, L Curnow 20; M Sanwal 2-18) beat
Penzance 109 (17.4) (B Wadlan 37, G Stone 18; P Nicholas 3-14, L Stephens 2-11, E May 2-16) by 44 runs.
'Bill Bosanko' Player of the Match Philip Nicholas
The 84th Final and the 9th successive for sponsors Bradleys Estate Agents.
Competition Wins – St Just 20, Penzance 18, Truro 9. Falmouth 8, Troon 7, Camborne 7
Most Finals - Penzance 31, St Just 30, Falmouth 22, Truro 17, Troon 15, Camborne 13
Umpires - John Molden & Martin Rolfe
Scorers - Nick Woolcock & David May
'Bill Bosanko' Player of the Match Adjudicator - CACO
St Just won the Bradleys Vinter Cup for a record 20th time with a memorable win over Penzance at Camborne.
St Just made 153 for seven with Player of the Match Philip Nicholas hitting 53.
Penzance, in their ninth consecutive final, were bowled out for 109.
In a superb fielding display, St Just, who included four teenagers, then held on to nine catches, Ellis May took five.
St Just will now meet Wadebridge in the WT Edwards Cup Final at St Austell next Wednesday at 6pm
After electing to bat St Just lost Ellis May, bowled by Mehran Sanwal in the first over.
Neil Curnow chipped Giles Lawrence to mid on and when Rhys Brownfield lost his off stump to Tom Dinnis it was 37-3 in the seventh over.
Philip Nicholas joined Chami Edirisinghe to add 58 for the fourth wicket before Edirisinghe was caught behind, flashing at Sanwal, to make it 95-4 in the 13th over.
Nicholas fell in the 17th over for 53 off 37 balls, and Penzance were able to restrict the total to 153 with only nine runs coming off the last two overs.
The Penzance reply got off to an impressive start as skipper Brad Wadlan struck seven boundaries off the first 16 balls of the innings.
Christian Purchase struck May for a straight six, but two balls later skewed a lobbed catch to Jamie Semmens at third man.
Matt Stevens swiftly departed as he skied Logan Curnow to May at cover.
May then superbly held on to a fiercely driven return catch from Wadlan, who hit 9 boundaries in his 37 off 22 balls.
Then one of 'the' Vinter Cup Final catches as Nicholas spectacularly dived low in Sunny Corner to remove Charlie Sharland, much to the delight of his team mates who, to a man, ran to congratulate - 63-4 in the ninth over - game on!
Next over, May held onto another superb catch at long on to remove Jack Paull for three.
May's fourth catch saw the end of Jonny Ludlam, and he followed up by holding on to a fifth, Sanwal, again at long on to make it 86-7.
Nicholas completed a superb game to remove Grant Stone (18) and Giles Lawrence, and Joe Clifton-Griffith picked up the final wicket with 14 balls to spare.
It ended Penzance's seven successive final wins on the field, having beaten St Just by seven wickets in 2022 before losing the game by default due to an ineligible player.
