Rossie Priory XI, 21st July 2013
St Andrews Staff XI 50/1 (19.5 overs) beat Rossie Priory XI 49/ao
(31.2 overs) by 9 wickets
(H. Wilson 3-14, S. Frankland 2-2, D. Miller 2-9, A. Stewart 2-10)
St Andrews claimed a convincing victory on Sunday based on a clinical bowling
performance.
Bowling first after another successful toss by Dom, Alyn and Dave started off
economically, although it took until the 10th over for the 1st wicket to fall
with Dave bowling an excellent in-swinging yorker. Dave decided this was such
an effective delivery he did it again in his next over to leave Rossie at 18
for 2 off 12 overs, with Alyn unfortunate to remain wicketless but only
conceding 4 runs off his 5 overs. There was no respite when the change bowling
of Angus and Henry was brought on as a period of attrition set in with only
4 runs scored in 11 overs, and 4 wickets falling in the same period. Angus
claimed the remaining opener clean bowled as he advanced down the wicket,
and Henry showed the benefit of bowling straight lines consistently as he
claimed three wickets all bowled � with his first 6 overs yielding 3 wickets
for just 4 runs. Angus claimed his 2nd wicket in the alst over of his spell,
with Dominic taking a catch down the legside to leave Rossie on 33 for 7.
Stan replaced Henry and soon removed the resolute Zahid, as Henry took an
excellent catch despite the close attentions of the onrushing Stefan and
Baggers, before clean bowling the Rossie no. 10. After a beamer to mark his
return to action, Jon then settled in and finished off the innings as yet
another batsmen was bowled.
With no run rate pressure Alyn and Aakash played watchfully as extras did
most of the early scoring. Alyn started to play more expansively before
being bowled by the economical Peters. With the in-form Stefan being
promoted to 3 the run-rate was upped and Aakash also begin to score more
freely. Fittingly perhaps, the winning runs came off byes, with Aakash
and Stefan both finishing unbeaten on 10.
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