Club cricket: Dulwich find Spencer too powerful while Blackheath lose at Bexley
Dulwich lost by 112 runs to Spencer in their second match in the AJ Fordham Sports & Fuller’s Brewery Challenge Cup.
The challenge of facing a Division One side was underlined by the innings of former Hampshire batsman Calvin Dickinson, who made 104 off just 76 balls.
He scored 39 out of a partnership of 51 for the first wicket, and went on to make 104 off just 76 balls. Dickinson fell to left-arm spinner Frankie Brown’s second ball to make it 152-3 after 25.2 overs.
The score advanced to 228-6 after 38.5 overs, the last four wickets went down in five balls for just two runs to see Spencer dismissed for 230 with two balls of the innings to spare.
Brown took the last two wickets to finish with 5-44 off 7.4 overs, while Ahmed Khan, one of three 15-year-olds in the side, took 2-41 off eight with his leg spin.
Chris Purshouse and Veer Patel, 15, got the Dulwich reply off to a good start, putting on 39 for the first wicket before the latter was run out for 15 off the first ball of the ninth over.
Purshouse followed three overs later for 24 with the score on 54. The following batsmen were unable to maintain the pace against tight bowling.
Sam Ellison enjoyed stands of 23 for the third wicket with Brown and 18 for the fifth with Ollie Sykes – the third 15-year-old. He was making his first-team debut and earlier brought off a fine diving catch.
Ellison’s dismissal, having top scored with 29, sparked a collapse which echoed the first innings in that four wickets also fell for two runs to reduce Dulwich to 98-8.
The last three batsmen took the score past the hundred mark, but the innings closed on 118, with slow left-armer Hugo Trotter taking five of the last six wickets for just 15 runs.
Dulwich have a home fixture against fellow Division Two side Bank of England this weekend.
Blackheath lost by 64 runs at Bexley in the Corona Metropolitan League.
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