Match: Perth College
Venue: North Inch
Date: 11 May 2011
Format: 16 overs per side
Toss: DUSCC who chose to bat
Result: DUSCC lost by 5 wickets
DUSCC innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| S Boarder | bowled | Rajeev | 3 |
| A Bell | bowled | Mahesh | 0 |
| R Ramalingan | c. wk | Mahesh | 0 |
| R Adelman | – | retired | 54 |
| A MacDonald | lbw | Mahesh | 9 |
| Rakesh | run | out | 4 |
| S Sharma | caught | Rajeev | 0 |
| D Heather | not | out | 2 |
| S Barclay | not | out | 1 |
| Extras | 11 | ||
| TOTAL | 84 for 6 |
Bowling: Mahesh 3-0-14-2; Rajeev 4-0-15-3; Mahendra 3-0-7-0; Imran 3-0-13-0; Nabeel 2-0-23-0; Krishna 1-0-8-0
FoW: 1-1; 2-3; 3-5; 4-61; 5-74; 6-81
Perth College innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krishna | st. Rakesh | Heather | 26 |
| Saurav | c. Rakesh | Dherwani | 12 |
| Imran | bowled | Dherwani | 0 |
| Mahesh | bowled | Dherwani | 0 |
| Rajeev | st. Rakesh | Dherwani | 0 |
| Mahendra | not | out | 20 |
| Nabeel | not | out | 1 |
| Extras | 26 | ||
| TOTAL | 85 for 5 |
Bowling: S Sharma 2-0-15-0; R Ramalingan 2-0-17-0; K Dherwani 3-0-37-4; D Heather 2.1-0-14-0;
FoW: 1-60; 2-60; 3-62; 4-62; 5-82
Report
DUSCC succumbed to its first defeat of the 2011 season in this new fixture against a capable and enthusiastic Perth College student team. All told it was not the happiest of occasions for us, with persistent rain in the air and horrendous traffic resulting from the Perth race meeting meaning we didn’t arrive until 6.30pm and couldn’t start the game much before 7pm. In the event, we won the toss and batted first in a game reduced to 16 overs per side, and were wholly indebted to Richard Adelman for posting any sort of total at all. He made his second 50 in his second appearance for the club, and showed no less class this time round. The importance of Alan MacDonald’s contribution to a 50 partnership with Richard was not reflected in his score…
Perhaps in response to a couple of harsh decisions given against their bowlers, the Perth College umpires showed absolutely no mercy in widing anything that didn’t scratch the varnish of the stumps, but equally their openers played plenty of decent shots in chasing our total nearly all by themselves. However an amazing over from Kabir Dherwani livened up proceedings from our viewpoint: in it he bowled a sequence of wicket, wicket, wide, wide, wicket, wicket and reduced the College from 60-0 to 62-4. However we only took one more wicket before the symbolically strange finish to the game – Duncan Heather’s high full toss being skyed to Richard at deep mid-wicket, who took the catch but found the signal of no-ball taking the College past the winning post.