BUCKINGHAMSHIRE retained their Eastern Division One title on a tense final day of the regular season and will now make the familiar trip to West Bromwich Dartmouth, venue for the four-day final which starts on September 6.
Buckinghamshire needed just 15 balls of the final day to score the 17 runs they needed to complete the formalities of their victory over Cambridgeshire at Peterborough.
They lost Billy Dodds, bowled by Aum Patel for 13, but an unbeaten 36 from debutant Jack Bates saw them home by eight wickets which then meant they had to monitor from afar events at Stafford where ...
