WOODHOUSE Grange will step onto the hallowed turf at Lord's for the seventh time in the last two decades after reaching the final of the Davidstow Village Cup - but this occasion may well be their last.

The Sutton-on-Derwent-based club, the defending champions, booked their spot at the home of cricket once again after beating Birmingham outfit Pelsall by 60 runs. They will now meet Cambridge side Foxton at the famous venue of the Marylebone Cricket Club on September 13.

Grange lost two wickets in their first eight balls as a motivated Pelsall, playing in front of a large crowd, got off to a perfect start. But a stand of 77 between Mike Hattee (32) and Nick Hadfield steadied the ship.

The latter, the club's skipper in the Village Cup, produced a classy 70 - including eight fours - before Steve Burdett, playing with damaged knee cartilage, hammered 58 off 47 balls. He crashed nine fours as Grange put up 209-9 from their 40 overs.

Now the club prepare to play at Lord's once again and, with the outfit on the verge of joining the Yorkshire League next season, the players are fully aware that this could be their final journey to the famous ground.

David Farmer, club secretary, said: "Steve Burdett has played the last two Village games where he has just been batting and then standing at slip. He smashed quick runs when we needed them but he is due to go in for an operation on Saturday.

"The way we started, we were very happy to get more than 200 and it was a wicket with a bit of variable bounce."

If Burdett was taking the limelight away from Hadfield, however, the skipper had other ideas - his 3-32 with the ball coming after opening bowlers Andrew Horner and Tom Quinn strangled Pelsall as they looked to get on the front foot.

Horner produced figures of 1-17 from nine overs and Quinn 2-21 from eight as Pelsall found themselves at 49-5.

"We thought we had won it," Farmer added. "But they got a few runs through Lewis Watts (33) and Tom Chew (32). Nick Hadfield had a excellent all round match, though, and all the bowlers that were used all took at least one wicket.

"Our wicket-keeper, Chris Bilton, produced two startling stumpings and Tom Young made a very athletic boundary catch as we bowled them out for 149."

Hadfield added of the display, and the prospect of yet another journey to the capital and St John's Wood: "It was a tough, difficult game - going away and spending three hours on a coach before playing. There were quite a few supporters there and it was a good win from a difficult position when we were two down for pretty much nothing.

"We have done it in semi-finals and in the league and that stood us in good stead. They played their cricket hard. They were on top of us early on but we put a score on the board to try and defend.

"You don't want to go anywhere else to play a game of cricket (but Lord's). It's a great experience for the club and supporters.

"But if you play in an ECB premier league you can't enter it. It is great to get there again in potentially our last year. Obviously, we want to win and that is testament to the commitment of the players, their families, and we hope we can go and perform."