Sutton 239-9 (63.5 overs) beat Dulwich 134 all out (37.3 overs) by105 runs
A depleted Dulwich side missing four first team regulars including their skipper went down to defeat by 105 runs in their Surrey Championship Premier division game with champions, Sutton.
Put into bat, Sutton had reached 40 in the sixteenth over when skipper Keith Medleycott was caught off Arshad Iftikhar for 19. Iftikhar and debutant Jamie Pettigrew then pegged back the scoring rate with Iftikhar conceding only 22 off 11 overs and Pettigrew 15 off seven overs. Spinners Raza Dar and Zoheb Sharif proved equally difficult to score off as the pitch started to take spin. Sharif dismissed Dave Simpson for 13 and Dar got John Fry, a former Dulwich player for a painstaking 59 off 151 balls. At this point Sutton had only reached 113 in the 44th over. Arun Harrinath survived a caught and bowled chance off Dar, when he had made only 9 and he went on to prosper striking 66 off 77 balls. He was well supported by Ali Jaffry with 20 off 35 balls in a stand of 52 for the fourth wicket in ten overs.
Dave Burton returned to take four wickets as Sutton pressed for runs, the Gloucester triallist finishing with 4-59 off twelve overs. Sutton scored 126 off the last twenty overs allowing Medleycott to declare with score on 239.
In reply, Zoheb Sharif and acting skipper, Steve Hale had taken the score to 21 in the 7th over when the former Surrey pace bowler Phil Sampson bowled both Hale for 8 and Chris Thompson first ball. Dar contemptuously hit the hat trick ball for four but fell in the next over to Bilal Butt. Sampson then had Stuart Ferguson lbw first ball and Dulwich had lost four wickets for six runs in just 15 balls. Burton then joined Sharif in a stand of 63 in fourteen overs before Sampson returned to bowl Burton for 33 off 57 balls. The remaining batsmen tried to stay with Sharif as Butt gradually worked his way through the tail. Former Surrey and England spinner, Medleycott brought himself back to dismiss keeper, Tom Howe for 6. Sharif was ninth out having made 64 off 94 balls and Iftikhar fell next ball.
Dulwich were all out for 134 with Sampson taking 2-46 off 12 overs and Butt 5-46 off 14.3 overs. On a poor Saturday for the Dulwich club, Sharif and Burton were the only batsmen to make double figures while three Dulwich players made golden ducks. The only positive news was that all the other struggling clubs lost at the bottom. At the half way stage in the season, Dulwich remain bottom of the league and need to produce a fighting performance on Saturday when they travel to top of the league, Reigate Priory in the Shepherd Neame sponsored Surrey Championship Premier League.
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