Match: St Andrews Uni Staff
Venue: St Andrews
Date: 19 May 2010
Format: 20 overs per side
Toss: St Andrews who chose to bowl
Result: St Andrews won by 8 wickets
DUSCC innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| D Heather | c Gordon | Frankland | 9 |
| S Boarder | bowled | Frankland | 26 |
| M Haque | lbw | Frankland | 0 |
| M Armstrong | lbw | Frankland | 0 |
| D Petrie | c Jess | Frankland | 4 |
| M Dixon | c Frankland | Jess | 13 |
| J Southalan | bowled | Jess | 0 |
| S Rodgers | bowled | Pass | 23 |
| B Smith | stumped | Frankland | 2 |
| A MacDonald | not | out | 0 |
| K Dherwani | bowled | Gordon | 1 |
| Extras | 11 | ||
| TOTAL | 88 all out |
Bowling: P Pass 4-0-16-1; S Frankland 4-0-13-6; B Gordon 3.4-0-23-1; Jess 3-0-8-2; Patania 4-0-17-0
FoW: 1-; 2-; 3-; 4-; 5-; 6-
St Andrews Uni Staff innings
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| D Bransden | lbw | Dixon | 7 |
| D Miller | not | out | 47 |
| T Clemens | bowled | Dherwani | 11 |
| V Patania | not | out | 4 |
| Extras | 20 | ||
| TOTAL | 89 for 2 |
Bowling: D Petrie 3-1-7-0; M Dixon 3-0-15-1; K Dherwani 4-0-21-1; A MacDonald 2-0-14-0; B Smith 2-0-25-0
FoW: 1-; 2-; 3-; 4-; 5-
Report
DUSCC’s long unbeaten run came to a pretty definitive halt after this 8 wicket thumping to St Andrews Uni Staff. The wheels, plus the engine, the seats and the exhaust came off the DUSCC innings in the 4th over when Stan Frankland took 4 wickets, including a hat-trick. The fourth of those came when he tipped a fierce drive from Dennis Petrie perfectly into the hands of mid-off: perhaps we should just have stopped there and then. Miles Dixon (13) and Scott Rodgers (23) hit out effectively but all too briefly in mid-innings, while Steve Boarder propped up one end and was eventually ninth out for a top score of 26.
Wickets needed to be taken early in the St Andrews chase to have any chance of winning, but they didn’t arrive despite plenty of shots to a well-populated slip and gully region. On a perfectly decent batting pitch the runs were knocked off in 14 overs despite fading light. Congratulations go to St Andrews on a big win, and in particular to Stan for career-best figures (though perhaps he should be thanking us?); we shall have to try a bit harder in defence of the Ferrier Cup in June.