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Doctors lost to Musgrove Park Hospital by 6 wickets
Doctors 129
for 9
MPH 132
for 4
Doctors made a
poor start against the accurate Julian Webster (1-14) and the very fast Simon
Ogilvie (1-11) who reduced them to 4 for 2
after two overs. Jeremy Budd
led a partial recovery and was greeted with warm applause when he scored his
2000th run for Doctors, particularly so as last week he took his
200th wicket. Alas he
perished soon afterwards for 10, caught by Ogilvie at cover off Tim
Porter. Graham Fergusson contributed a
whirlwind 31 (4 fours and 2 sixes) before top edging a hook at Porter (2-24)
and with another wicket from Ron Biggs (1-22) making the score 65 for 5 it
was left to Will Chandler to anchor the innings. This he did with consummate style despite a
run out and another wicket for M.Crowther at the other end. When Chandler
(33) had a most untypical rush of blood and was stumped two yards out off Ru
McDonagh (2-15) Doctors strong batting line up had only amassed 109. They were indebted to a bold 22 not out
from Tom Hopkins who led them to a competitive total.
The start of the
Hospital innings mirrored that of Doctors as Fergusson (1-13) was at times
unplayable on a turning, bouncing wicket and was given solid support by Mike
Smart (1-19). Alan Dunkley was looking
very solid and was initially content to push ones and twos but when David
Gwynne Jones accepted a straightforward chance off Hopkins
(1-30) and Chandler took a much
harder one off Peter Reed (1-28) Musgrove were 68 for 4 and well behind the
clock. At last Dunkley found a durable
ally in T.Davies and they began the acceleration with two “big
overs” which yielded 15 and 16 runs.
After this Doctors were always chasing the game and hard though the
bowlers tried the desperately needed wicket failed to come. Three half chances went to ground but by
now Dunkley was in complete command and his majestic 68 not out contained 9
fours and 2 sixes. Davies (22 n.o.)
hit the winning boundary with 9 balls to spare.
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