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Match Reports Saturday 7th June 2003 Result: Dulwich won by 6 wickets Leatherhead 119 in 32.5 overs For the second successive week, second-placed Dulwich faced third-placed opposition, and yet again emerged victorious to keep up the pressure on Old Wimbledonians. But it was a highly eventful game, from ball one. Captain Harmer again won the toss (it's so much easier when someone else does the calling!) and put in Leatherhead. A fired-up Jason Speer ('Are you sure you want me to open? I don't mind, you know') took the new ball - and flattened the stumps. Number Three came in, and played on. The third ball of the day was thus a hat-trick ball, and not the last of the game, either. But the drama was over. Chris Smith, feeling sure that the pressure was on, came tearing in, only to find the other opener was clearly related to Tony Cable, and just wishes Tony would get on with the game. Before he was out on his 14th ball, deceived by a slower full toss, Mr Mead had scored 26 after some blistering hitting. Chris took a wicket with his next ball, and again Dulwich couldn't get the hat-trick. But after 6 overs the score was 43 for 3. After that the game calmed down, as Leatherhead sought to rebuild. Young J.Alcott batted very sensibly, the wickets were shared around between the six bowlers, with no one taking more than two wickets. Glen Bowley also found himseslf on a hat-trick when he took two in two near the end of the innings, and Leatherhead were eventually dismissed for 119. Dulwich knew they'd be in for a challenge as Leatherhead's opening bowler, J.Kearns, had taken 9 for 9 the previous week, but it wasn't to be the same story this time. After the early dismissal of Tony Cable, Peter Rice and Sam Taylor calmed nerves and took the score into the forties before Sam was out for a quick-fire 31 (the match's top score). Andy Rycroft fell first ball to 13-year-old M.Roberts, a superb young left-arm spinner whose name you read here first, becoming the fifth golden duck of the game. When Chris Smith was out at 67 for 4, the pressure was on the very experienced shoulders of Messrs Rice and Woods. Was the result now in any doubt? Was there any point in Leatherhead continuing? Of course not - but they did. Needing to score at just one an over, at times one felt they might just leave it to the last over to secure the win, but with an undefeated 30 in just 127 balls from Peter and 24 in 68 from David, victory was achieved. It was a sensible, calm performance that gradually crushed the resistance out of Leatherhead. Had another wicket fallen quickly, the pressure would have been intense. Next week Dulwich travel to Dorking, on the back of three successive victories with 56 points out of a possible 65 already in the bank.
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