At least one St. George's player does not think his team was ready to take the Cup Match title from Somerset.

Middle-order batsman and century maker, Clay Smith, says the East End club lacked the tactics and guile to wrest the trophy from Somerset and, in some instances, were just going through the motions in the two-day classic.

"I believe you only get out what you put in and I don't think we (St. George's) prepared ourselves the way we should have in terms of our training and our tactics.

"We discussed a lot of time tactics but we didn't go into detail about how we were going to get certain batsmen out - what we thought their strengths and weaknesses were.

"We didn't break the game down enough to come up with a game plan as to how we wanted to attack Somerset. At the end of the day a lot of bowlers were out there bowling just to bowl - without a plan. We suffered the consequences," said Smith frankly.

Though he was "frustrated" with being kept in the field so long on the first day as the cup holders piled up 483 for seven declared, the former St. George's Cup Match skipper came to Somerset's defence, acknowledging St. George's has done the same thing in past Cup Matches.

"A lot of people said (Somerset captain) Albert (Steede) could have declared earlier but I am a strong believer that if you want something you have to earn it and you have to take it from the champions.

"There have been plenty of times that the shoe has been on the other foot and we have done the same thing: batted long to make sure the cup can only stay in St. George's and then hopefully give them a two to one."

Smith - the last victorious leader of a St. George's Cup Match team (1997) - is seen as one of the people who could succeed outgoing skipper Charlie Marshall. The latter signalled that this year's drawn affair at Wellington Oval was his final appearance in the event.

On the second day of the game, the Marshall-Smith combination rewrote Cup Match history as they pummelled a record, fourth-wicket stand of 212. It was also the second-best Cup Match partnership of all time.

Both men earned their second Cup Match centuries with Smith eventually falling for a well-played 124 with 14 fours and three sixes.

The 32-year-old was "satisfied to some degree" with his performance, admitting he had greater sights in mind that day.

"Once I got a hundred my focus was on Janeiro's (Tucker) record (of 186 for the highest individual score) because I knew I had the whole day to bat. To be honest I was very disheartened not to get it. My concentration was so high that day.

"I was looking at probably becoming the first player to get a double (hundred) but unfortunately I got a ball that jumped off the wicket and there was nothing I could do about it," said the flashy batsman who was caught behind off Corey Hill with the second new ball.

However, the St. David's Premier League captain is confident he will add some more Cup Match hundreds to a distinguished record which has now seen him become just the fifth person with two centuries in the classic.

"I have time to get four or even five (centuries). The bowling in Bermuda has gone back tremendously.

"It's a lot easier to score runs in Cup Match nowadays than when you had bowlers like El James, Robert Hinds and (Winston) "Coe" Trott."