Match: Norwood – Mallion Memorial Game
Venue: Dalnacraig
Date: 13 July 2011
Format: 20 overs per side
Toss: DUSCC who chose to bat
Result: Norwood won by 3 wickets
DUSCC innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| C Reid | lbw | Proctor | 2 |
| S Boarder | st van Niekerk | Worrall | 31 |
| R Adelman | bowled | Proctor | 46 |
| B Smith | bowled | Worrall | 2 |
| R Ramalingam | run | out | 3 |
| S Barclay | lbw | Bayer | 0 |
| A Bell | bowled | Sharma | 1 |
| M Dixon | bowled | Bayer | 6 |
| S Rodgers | not | out | 7 |
| S Immanual | not | out | 2 |
| Extras | 16 | ||
| TOTAL | 116 for 8 |
Bowling: K Bayer 4-1-8-2; S Sharma S 4-0-18-1; R Proctor 4-0-30-2; Harshal 2-0-13-0; G Worrall 4-0-22-2; Vishoo 2-0-14-0
FoW: 1-18; 2-75; 3-77; 4-94; 5-94; 6-94; 7-101; 8-107
Norwood innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| H van Niekerk | run | out | 17 |
| S Sharma | bowled | Adelman | 1 |
| R Proctor | bowled | Dixon | 5 |
| Harshal | lbw | Smith | 3 |
| K Bayer | not | out | 44 |
| Vishoo | lbw | Boarder | 7 |
| K Richiardi | bowled | Boarder | 0 |
| G Worrall | run | out | 0 |
| D Chaddee | not | out | 0 |
| Extras | 42 | ||
| TOTAL | 119 for 7 |
Bowling: M Dixon 4-1-13-1; R Adelman 4-0-14-1; B Smith 3.1-0-17-1; Sinhju 4-1-23-0; S Immanual 2-0-30-0; S Boarder 2-1-2-2
FoW (approx): 1-7; 2-16; 3-30; 4-80; 5-108; 6-108; 7-112
Report
DUSCC lost narrowly to our friends at Norwood by 3 wickets in a game which was played in the finest conditions of the summer so far, and befitting the commemoration of our mutual friend and colleague Dave Mallion, in great spirit too. A number of the players on show represent both sides and so after some pre-match promises of retribution, broken limbs and stumps etc and a late switch of Sri Sharma to the Norwood side, DUSCC won the toss and elected to bat first. A second- wicket of 57 between Richard Adelman (46) and Steve Boarder (31) formed the structure of the innings but Richard’s dismissal in the middle of a spell in which 5 DUSCC wickets fell for 13 runs meant that the final total of 116 was slightly short of target, although Scott Rodgers’s glorious hit over mid-on for 6 boosted the total in the final over.
Norwood’s chase progressed steadily rather than spectacularly and DUSCC were sniffing a win when some expensive middle overs and Kurt Bayer’s high-quality batting turned the tide. 5 overs remained and only a dozen or so runs were left to win when in a fit of desperation, Alan Bell threw the ball to Steve to turn his arm over – probably to get the game done and dusted and everyone down the pub. However, Steve took 2 cheap wickets and, combined with Richard’s economical spell of 2 overs at the other end, Norwood still required 3 to win off the final over. Perhaps it was the unexpectedly exciting finish which led to the winning runs coming off a wide ball which crawled agonisingly over the ropes. In previous seasons we’d manufactured a tie from this game – we came close to a genuine one this time but didn’t quite make it.
Anyway, onto the more important business – a final count is still being done at time of writing but we were hoping to collect, in memory of Dave Mallion, a sum of around £150 for donation to a cancer charity.