Dundee University Staff, 2nd July 2014
St Andrews University Staff 101/3 (20.4 overs) beat Dundee University Staff 98/9 (25 overs) by 7 wickets
(D. Miller 3-12, A. Davies 2-13) (S. Frankland 29)
St Andrews retained the Ferrier Cup on a grey evening to ensure another season of
silverware.
Winning the toss and bowling first, St Andrews started with Alyn and Dave. Run-scoring
proved particularly difficult early on, although it took until the 5th over for the
breakthrough � and then two came at once as Al was rewarded for probing outside off with
two nicks behind in the over, both safely pouched by Dom. Alyn bowled his 5 overs straight
through, finishing with excellent figures of 2-13, as the other bowlers were rotated. Phil
came on to purvey his left-arm spin in place of Dave and was rewarded with an early wicket.
Josh then took a wicket with his first ball as the Dundee batsmen looked to up the scoring
rate � Stan taking a high catch safely in the covers - before Stan chipped in with two of
his own, Pat taking a catch at mid-off.
Dave was brought back into the attack to partner Josh in the death overs, and immediately
gained reward by taking 3 wickets in an over � the first courtesy of a fine one-handed
catch by Alyn, the next two clean bowled. With the tail-end batsmen in, the last 5 overs
barely saw a run scored as Dundee stuttered to 98-9.
The St Andrews reply was generously helped along throughout by a number of wides. Alyn went
early for a swift 7 before Stan and Ross steadily went about the run gathering in a stand of
65 � a marvellous straight-driven 6 by Ross the highlight. Both fell on 79 � Ross bowled for
20, Stan bowled around his legs for 29. Any threat of a collapse was snuffed out as Paul and
Dom took advantage of some loose bowling to take St Andrews to victory by 7 wickets with
plenty of overs to spare.
An excellent bowling performance backed up by good catching to give StAUSCC the trophy for
another year.
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