By David Slater
April 28 2002

Owais Shah's unbeaten fifty and four wickets from Ashley Noffke guided Middlesex to an eight wicket victory against fellow Londoners Surrey at Lord's. Mark Butcher top scored for Surrey with 51 but that was all Surrey could shout about as Noffke, with help from Chad Keegan bowled Surrey out for 123. Strauss and Keonig fell early on but Ben Hutton (27) and Shah (50) saw Middlesex home despite several rain breaks.

And the really great new, Ramprkash only got four runs!


Surrey innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
MA Butcher b Noffke 51 124 81 7 0
AJ Stewart c Nash b Keegan 6 23 27 1 0
MR Ramprakash c Weekes b Keegan 4 16 10 0 0
N Shahid c Nash b Fraser 5 4 7 1 0
AD Brown c Weekes b Keegan 2 3 5 0 0
IJ Ward run out (Koenig) 3 20 16 0 0
Azhar M lbw b Noffke 10 18 12 2 0
AJ Tudor run out (Strauss) 13 24 22 2 0
MP Bicknell c Nash b Noffke 8 34 25 1 0
J Ormond c Nash b Noffke 3 11 12 0 0
ESH Giddins not out 5 17 11 0 0
Extras (lb 9, w 4) 13
Total (all out, 38 overs) 123

Bowling O M R W
Fraser 10 2 22 1
Keegan 8 2 24 3 (3w)
Noffke 10 3 34 4
Cook 6 0 26 0 (1w)
Weekes 4 0 8 0

Middlesex innings (124 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
AJ Strauss c Azhar M b Ormond 24 53 43 3 0
SG Koenig run out (Bicknell) 13 71 42 1 0
BL Hutton not out 27 121 54 4 0
OA Shah not out 50 104 45 7 0
Extras (lb 1, w 5, nb 4) 10
Total (2 wickets, 30.2 overs) 124

DNB: EC Joyce, PN Weekes, DC Nash, AA Noffke, SJ Cook, ARC Fraser, CB Keegan.

Bowling O M R W
Bicknell 5 2 15 0 (2w)
Tudor 8 0 50 0 (1nb)
Giddins 7 2 12 0 (1w)
Ormond 6.2 1 17 1 (2w)
Azhar M 4 0 29 0 (1nb)