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Doctors beat Peninsular Medical School by 3 runs
Doctors 133 for 3 Peninsular Medical School 130 for 7
The medical
students from Exeter put Doctors into bat and were rewarded with an early
wicket to Farhat (1-15). This was their only success for some time as
John Ogle and Will Chandler made full use of an excellent Cannington batting
strip by finding gaps in the field, running well and brutally dispatching
anything short of a length. Their stand for the second wicket was worth
77 when Chandler advanced down the wicket to drive Watson (1-41) got an
inside edge and was bowled. The
visitors’ bowling was sharp and their fielding keen and athletic but
Ogle in form is majestic and once he had survived a chance to Farhat in the
gully off Watson he never looked like getting out. Ali Witts (17) lent valuable support until
he was run out just before the close and it was fitting that Ogle remained
unbeaten at the close for a superb 65 not out.
Marc Troman (1-17) bowled an excellent
opening spell that demanded respect and deservedly earned an early
breakthrough, but with such a placid wicket the students, in the persons of
Watson and Vaughan, were able to mount a stirring fightback. The boundary count was rising alarmingly
when a bowling change brought Paul Troman into the attack. His second ball did the trick as Vaughan (27) sliced an attempted drive to point where Alex
Troman took a good overhead catch. The
P.M.S. captain James Taylor announced his arrival with a flurry of three
boundaries and with Watson also accelerating the visitors gained the upper
hand despite a fine spell of desperately unlucky swing bowling from Steve
Witts. Paul Troman (2-34) came on
again and again the effect was instant as Watson (35) ended a fine innings
with a chip to Marc Troman in the covers.
The students were still matching the asking rate but the turning point
came when Taylor (24) miscued an on drive off Peter Reed (2-17) and man-of-the-match Ogle sprinted in from
midwicket to hold a fine, low, tumbling catch. Still P.M.S. would not lie down and Haigh
came in to smite four lusty boundaries.
The last over began with eight runs needed and Haigh (22) on strike
but bowler Richard Gower kept his cool and the first ball of the over, a
devastating, fast yorker, sent the off stump cartwheeling. In the gathering gloom Gower (1-28) was all
but unplayable and despite a no-ball from the sixth ball of the over and a
consequent “free hit” from the final ball Doctors eased home.
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