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Match Reports Saturday 7 August 2004 Farncombe 134 all out and Dulwich 135-0 Surrey Championship Division One leaders Dulwich extended their lead at the top of the table to 16 points with a crushing ten wicket defeat of bottom side Farncombe. Their convincing win leaves Dulwich tantalisingly close to a third successive promotion! Put into bat Farncombe lost their first wicket to Mark Kelly in the fifth over. West Indian opener Darren Brown was then joined by Matt Pike who survived several edges through the slips to put on 50 for the second wicket. Attacking fields from the confident Dulwich side enabled the Farncombe scoring rate to progress at 4 an over. Off spinner Tanuj Sud was brought on and he soon applied the brake by conceding only four runs in his first eight overs, taking two wickets including Brown for 33. Kelly picked up Pike for 22 whereupon Tanuj’s spin twin Graeme Hough joined the attack to take 4-20 off ten overs. Sud retired from the attack with 2-30 in fourteen overs as the opening bowlers were recalled to brea k a stubborn last wicket stand. Mark Kenlock picked up the last wicket to dismiss Farncombe for 134 in the fiftieth over. On a very hot day the Dulwich ground fielding held up well as Jack Lusk pouched three catches at first slip whilst the skipper Richard Farrow also took two catches. Farrow and Steve Hale started the Dulwich reply steadily with only 20 runs coming from the first ten overs but the scoring soon accelerated. Farncombe tried seven bowlers in an attempt to brea k the Dulwich opening partnership but to no avail as the pair reached 135 in just thirty overs. The skipper led the way with 73 not out – his fifth half century of the season with an aggregate of 592 runs at an average of 49. His opening partner Steve Hale made 49 not out and raised his average to 46 since his promotion to the first eleven. Next week table topping Dulwich visit Cheam in the First Division of the Surrey Championship sponsored by Castle Lager with just three games of the league season left.
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