Cupar CC vs. St. Andrews University Staff CC, 22nd September 2007.
St Andrews won by 49 runs

A solid batting performance, followed by an outstanding fielding and bowling display from a St. Andrews side missing several senior players saw St. Andrews (118-7, 35 overs) beat Cupar (69 all out, 20 overs) by 49 runs in the last game of the season.

The Cupar opening bowlers, the Cupar captain having put St. Andrews in to bat, bowled well, exploiting the variable bounce of the astroturf pitch. Vit - the Czech destroyer - was the first to fall, bowled by Walker for 1, one of Cupar's very impressive younger players. Mike, Stu and Andy all made starts before falling, all bowled. At 53-4 with only 10 men and more than one professional number 11 in the team, things were looking bleak but Nick combined well with Angus to add 57 for the fifth wicket. Angus was in impressive form, hitting four boundaries in his 37 and working the slower bowlers well. Nick's improvement as a batsman continued, with a lofted cover drive for four proving particularly memorable, before he fell for 13 trying to force the pace in the final overs. Angus followed soon afterwards, Eric scored a quick 5 with some excellent running between the wickets, Alex gloved one to the keeper to be the only wicket not clean bowled and Tom scored his first run for the club to set Cupar 119 in 35 overs to win.

St. Andrews started well in the field, Tom picking up his first wicket for the club in the first over of the Cupar innings, thanks to Vit's catch at midwicket. The other Cupar opener threatened briefly before falling to the first of three catches from Andy, each one more impressive than the last, again off the bowling of Tom. Thereafter, wickets continued to tumble, Angus picking up the two wickets he needed to finish as the season's leading wicket taker and Tom grabbing a third thanks to a stunning low, one handed catch from Jon. Jon then came on to bowl, and after struggling with a few wides early on recovered to bowl well and dismiss Anderson. At the other Vit also mixed the good with the wide and had Walker caught the ball after he hit a big straight six. Stand-in skipper Alex then opted for spin at both ends, bringing himself and Mike on. Backed by tight fielding, both bowled tight spells (despite Alex being reverse-swept by L. Wilkinson!) Mike closed out the game with 3 wickets, two more to catches - a leg-side one from Stu and a head-high slip catch from Alex - before ending the game by bowling McLaughlin fo a duck (the fifth of the Cupar innings).