Match: St Andrews Uni Staff
Venue: Dalnacraig
Date: 27 July 2011
Format: Ferrier Cup – 25 overs per side
Toss: St Andrews Uni Staff who chose to bat
Result: DUSCC won by 9 wickets
St Andrews Uni Staff innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| S Frankland | st Yearworth | Sadler | 0 |
| D Miller | bowled | Dixon | 4 |
| T Clemens | bowled | Sadler | 5 |
| U Pathania | c Rodgers | Sadler | 1 |
| J Tooze | lbw | Sadler | 0 |
| D Bransden | not | out | 14 |
| P Pass | bowled | Sharma | 0 |
| J Threlfall | bowled | Sharma | 0 |
| P Jess | lbw | Dixon | 0 |
| A Stewart | bowled | Dixon | 0 |
| W Tooze | lbw | Petrie | 5 |
| Extras | 5 | ||
| TOTAL | 34 all out |
Bowling: D Sadler 5-4-6-4; D Petrie 3.4-1-5-1; M Dixon 5-2-6-3; S Sharma 3-1-10-2; R Adelman 1-0-4-0
FoW: 1-0; 2-6; 3-8; 4-10; 5-10; 6-10; 7-10; 8-14; 9-14; 10-34
DUSCC innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| R Adelman | not | out | 13 |
| S Boarder | c Bransden | W Tooze | 18 |
| S Sharma | not | out | 3 |
| Extras | 2 | ||
| TOTAL | 36 for 1 |
Bowling: A Stewart 3-0-6-0; P Pass 2-0-12-0; D Miller 1-0-5-0; P Jess 1-0-4-0; W Tooze 0.5-0-7-1
FoW: 1-29
Report
DUSCC regained the Ferrier Cup courtesy of the best bowling, fielding and keeping performance seen from us in years, against a St Andrews team that we know from previous games with them, and their performances in this year’s Strathmore league, to be a really good one. We reduced St Andrews to 14 for 9, and eventually 34 all out, through a bowling unit of Dave Sadler (who took 4 wickets), Dennis Petrie (1), Miles Dixon (3) and Sri Sharma (2) which asked constant questions and barely wasted a ball. DUSCC’s keeping and fielding backed them up superbly.
The tone was set early with Pete Yearworth making a razor-sharp stumping off Dave to dismiss the dangerous Stan Frankland in the first over. Dave took two further crucial wickets in his second over – the second via a really smart catch from Scott Rodgers at slip, belying his gammy knee – and bowled his 5 overs straight through to end with outstanding figures of 4-6. At the other end, first Dennis Petrie and then Miles Dixon retained tight control; eventually Miles, keeping it full and straight, took 3 wickets, all bowled or leg before. When Dave had finished his spell, Sri Sharma replaced him and took 2 wickets in 2 balls with sharp, late inswingers. And when Miles had bowled through, ending with 3-6, Dennis returned to take the final wicket. Credit goes to the final St Andrews pair who more than doubled their total; Dominic Bransden repeatedly advancing down the wicket to negate the movement despite Pete standing up, and William Tooze looking an accomplished young batsman. However the damage had already been done in a tremendous bowling display from our attack.
Richard Adelman and Steve Boarder, hoping for a repeat of several productive partnerships this season, opened the DUSCC reply and made it most of the way there, putting on 29 before Steve fell to a good ball from young Tooze and a fine one-handed catch in the slips. The game was concluded two balls later, and fittingly Richard – who has had a brilliant debut season for DUSCC – hit the winning boundary. Praise goes to the St Andrews players for their integrity when umpiring and grace when handing back the Ferrier Cup to captain Alan Bell.
We normally try to get some irreverence into these reports. In DUSCC games there is normally something worth mocking… but I can’t think of anything this time. Congratulations to all who took part.