Norwood, 1st June 2014
Norwood 225/7 (45 overs) beat University of St Andrews Staff 92ao (43 overs) by 131 runs
(D. Miller 2-32)
The beginning of June did not start successfully for StAUSCC as we fell to a convincing loss at home
to Norwood.
With Norwood choosing to bat first Angus and Dave kept the openers tied down, but without ever looking
likely to make the initial breakthrough. Eventually it was Alyn who broke the opening partnership in
the 18th over, with a clean bowled. Soon after Stan removed the other opener with the score on 99, and
the run rate still under 4 an over. However, the no. 4 batsman changed the tone of the game by scoring
30 off the first 6 balls he faced, three of them 6s, damaging Stan�s figures in the process. Some clever
and aggressive bowling from Ben kept him tied down to just 5 off the next 11 balls before he holed out
to Phil.
StAUSCC fought back well at the death with only 28 runs coming off the last 8 overs, bowled by Stan,
Phil and Dave, as Norwood were kept to 223 for 7 � Dave picking up two wickets in an excellent second
spell and Alyn providing an excellent piece of fielding with a direct hit run out towards the end of the
innings. A good effort by all the bowlers, with a couple of dropped chances and some not quite going
to hand costing us.
In response Dom and Al put on 18 for the first wicket before Dom edged behind and Al went similarly at
the other end. Stan and Ben steadied the innings before falling to run-outs after a partnership of 35 as
StAUSCC lost 3 wickets for 3 runs to leave us at 58-5 in the 24th over. However, Pat displaying a resolute
attitude stuck in against some testing bowling without giving a chance, whilst partners came and went in
ever shorter cameos � although Francis and James both showed glimpses of something more substantial.
Eventually Pat was left high and dry but not before leading us to 92, giving us a batting point that had
looked unlikely.
As with a few games recently, lack of batting partnerships when chasing decent totals proves our undoing,
along with dropped catches.
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