Falkland, 18th August, 2010

St AUSCC (104 for 3, T. Clemens 42*) beat Falkland CC (100 for 7, A. Dick 2/16) by 7 wickets

After no game for 10 days St Andrews welcomed Falkland for a 20/20 on August 18.

Bowling first St Andrews made an excellent start through Uday and Angus, reducing Falkland to 7 for 2 before Angus was taken off with outstanding figures of 1 for 1 off 2 overs. The numbers 3 and 4 for Falkland proceeded to resurrect the innings before Phil caused the number 3 to take one baseball swing too many, Dominic taking the catch at cover. Phil added another wicket in his last over to take 2-23 but the visitors had set a good base, sitting at 66 for 4 after 13 overs, with the big hitting Low starting to open up. However, Andy, after a late arrival from Edinburgh, and Santos both bowled excellent spells to finish the innings. Andy clean bowled Low for 43 in his first over, and Santos took a wicket in the next over, courtesy of a catch from Tom that was effective if by no means graceful or coordinated. With Andy adding another wicket in the last over to finish with 2-16 Falkland were restricted to just over 100 for 7 wickets.

In the St Andrews reply Dominic was soon gone hitting a catch to midwicket before Dave was clean bowled to leave the score at 35 for 2 off 7 overs. Tom and Andy then proceeded to run the Falkland fielders ragged with some excellently judged running, taking singles at will and keeping up with the run rate despite not hitting a boundary until the 13th over when the score stood at 65. Both batsmen now began to open up as they accelerated the chase before Andy fell for 26 with 2 needed to win, hitting a catch straight to point. With Uday grudgingly having to take his jacket off to go into bat, it was left to Tom to score the winning runs to finish on 42 not out.

Another good fielding performance by the team was ably backed up the excellent 67 run partnership between Andy and Tom with a display of intelligent and responsible batting taking us to a third successive win.

- Dominic Bransden