Match Reports
Saturday 21st May 2005
Dulwich 1st XI vs. Banstead
Banstead (193 all out) lost to Dulwich (194-7)
by three wickets.
Newly promoted Dulwich got back to winning ways when their achieved
their first victory in three games in the Premier League of the
Surrey Championship against Banstead on Saturday.
Put into bat Banstead started positively taking twenty runs off
the first two overs from Mark Kelly. However his fellow pace man
Kervin Marc struck back dismissing skipper Sam Woodward for 14
in a spell of 1 for 2 in his first four overs. Kelly recovered
well to take the next two wickets reducing Banstead to 51 for three
off seventeen overs. Banstead keeper Danny Pratt joined New Zealander
Jonathan Morley and together they took Banstead to lunch at 110
for three wickets.
Adam McDonagh struck with the second ball after the interval
dismissing Pratt for 31 and off spinner Graeme Hough followed up
with 2 wickets in a typically tidy spell of 2-31 off 15 overs with
Banstead struggling at 131-6 off 44 overs. Nick Holt and Jerry
McGuire thwarted the Dulwich bowlers with a stand of 40 in eleven
overs before Kelly returned to dismiss Holt for 31.
Dulwich speedster,
Dave Burton cleaned up the last three wickets (including the last
two in successive balls) to dismiss Banstead for 193. Burton’s
haul included Maguire for 31 – the third Banstead batsman
to be dismissed for that score and co-incidentally the highest
score in the Banstead innings.
In reply, Dulwich found scoring difficult against accurate bowling
losing their first three wickets to Liam Burns (2-13 off 9overs)
and Alex Armstrong (1-11 off six overs). Dulwich went to tea at
43-3 off seventeen overs but the welcome cuppa helped as Jack Lusk
and Mark Kelly found batting easier against the change bowlers
putting on 59 for the 4 th wicket.
The opening pair of bowlers
returned to the Banstead attack and took three wickets for 21
runs in the next ten overs including Kelly for 29 and Lusk. Jack
Lusk, the vice captain had made a stylish 67 of 78 balls to give
him his second 50 in three matches.
At 120- 6 Dulwich seemed precariously
placed but Adam McDonagh and Stuart Ferguson steadied the innings
with a stand of 41 in ten overs. McDonagh’s dismissal brought
in Kervin Marc and with Ferguson they knocked off the winning runs
with five overs to spare. City lawyer Ferguson making 33 not out
and Marc a quick 16 off 15 balls.
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