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Match Reports Saturday 30th July 2005 Surrey Championship: Wimbledon (304-9 declared) drew with Dulwich 93-4 As rain swept around the Surrey cricket clubs, Dulwich and Wimbledon had to settle for a draw. The recent pattern of Dulwich making early inroads into the top order batsmen was repeated when the Wimbledon middle order batted their team into a safe total for declaration. A draw for Wimbledon and Dulwich kept the two bottom teams at a distance. Wimbledon chose to bat first and lost two early wickets to Mark Kelly (in his first over) and to Kervin Marc (in his third over) leaving the Dons at 11-2. John Rowlands and David Brown took the total to 36 in the thirteenth over whereupon David Gritton celebrated his promotion to the first team by dismissing Brown for 18. The young speedster picked up a second wicket in his fifth over to make Wimbledon 48-4 in the nineteenth over. Sean Davies joined Rowland in a stand of 33 as Dulwich turned to spin bowling. Rowland fell to left armer Vikram Banerjee for a gritty 28 as Wimbledon took lunch at a precarious 101-5 off 35 overs. After the interval Sean Davies took control and with the help of David Jarvis added 107 for the sixth wicket before Jarvis fell to Banerjee for 38. The Former Zimbabwean international went on to his century but soon afterwards was well caught on the boundary by Graeme Hough for 105 with the score at 225. Davies had scored a century in his only other appearance for Wimbledon this season. Wimbledon seemed intent on making the game safe and continued to bat on. Rory Lavery made 42 not out off 32 balls spearheading the acquisition of 79 off the last ten overs. Debutant Gritton returned the best figures taking 3-45 while Marc, Banerjee and Kelly grabbed two wickets each. Wimbledon had batted out their full entitlement of 66 overs to finish on 304-9. In reply Darrel Brown and Anil Mahey started confidently putting on 35 in just eight overs before Brown was dismissed by South African Will Hantan for 21. Local boy, Mahey and the skipper, Richard Farrow continued the run chase putting on 58 together as Dulwich reached 93 after 24 overs. As the storm clouds gathered, Hantan intervened dramatically dismissing Farrow for 21, Jack Lusk and Mark Kelly – both lbw first ball. Hanton's hat trick was the last play as the rain poured down to end the proceedings. Wimbledon took four points for a winning draw and Dulwich's single point was negated as they were deducted a point for a slow over rate. The Dulwich pace bowlers could only look at 11 no balls and 12 wides to see where they had forfeited the point.
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