Dulwich 200 all out (59.3 overs) beat Farnham 120 all out (37.2 overs) by 80 runs.

A courageous innings by Richard Farrow, who batted for seventeen overs with a badly injured finger, set up a remarkable recovery from 109-8 to secure an 80 run win for Dulwich in their Surrey Championship Premier Division clash at Farnham.

Dulwich chose to bat on a lively wicket and soon found themselves on 14-3 after five overs with Zoheb Sharif, Chris Thompson and Steve Hale all back in the pavilion. Raza Dar scored 22 of the next 36 runs but fell with the score on 50. Vice captain Farrow had reached 21 when he was forced to retire hurt with the score on 80. Skipper Mark Kelly was dismissed for 17 and Dulwich went to lunch on 86-5 off 33 overs.

After lunch, progress was slow as Ed Matten went for 11 and Dave Burton for 17 but when the latter was out in the 42nd over and Richard Beeching was followed in the next over without scoring a run, Dulwich had declined to a precarious 109-8. Farrow now returned to the fray and at fist played second fiddle to wicket keeper Ryan Birbeck who scored 17 in a partnership of 26 for the ninth wicket. Joined by Arshad Iftikhar, Farrow initially tried some outrageous one handed shots- one of which went for six! However he soon buckled down to some more orthodox play adding 65 for the last wicket with the number eleven. The plucky pair took the score to exactly 200 before Iftikhar fell on 16 with Farrow 75 not out off 117 balls.

The last two wickets added 91 which left Farnham facing a much larger score than had seemed likely. Their reply got off to a disastrous start as Burton dismissed Tom Caines and Guy Hicks in his first over, both without scoring. Ron Smith and James Haggie took the score to 37 whereupon Haggie fell for 26 to Dar who followed up by having keeper Tim Lamb lbw first ball. Dar also claimed the wicket of Smith for 13 with the score on 55.

Farnham skipper Tom Hicks and Richard Norman launched a recovery and had taken the Farnham score to 83 when a direct hit from Dar ran out Hicks for 26. Farnham went into tea facing defeat on 87-6 and the return of Burton hastened their demise as he dismissed Norman for 13 with his last ball of his first over after the interval. Clearly refreshed Burton followed up with another wicket with the first ball of his next over. Dar struck in the next over to make it 97-9. The last wicket pair added 23 before Dar finished it off with the home side on 120. Dar's final bowling analysis was 5 wickets for 34 runs and paceman Burton took 4-53 off 15 overs.

This win lifts Dulwich from tenth to seventh place in the table, but there are only eleven points separating the bottom four and next week's round of matches will determine which of the two teams from four get relegated. In a crucial game Dulwich entertain mid table Sunbury in the Shepherd Neame sponsored Surrey Championship Premier League.