Surrey v Middlesex
Rikki Clarke hit 46 then took three wickets in an over as Surrey completed the Twenty20 double over Middlesex.
Middlesex were 78-4 after 11 overs in reply to the Lions' 180-7 when a storm hit, the Duckworth/Lewis method handing Surrey victory by 22 runs.
Clarke helped lift the home side from early trouble at 27-2, but fell lbw to Jamie Dalrymple a shot short of 50.
Joining the attack in the seventh over he dismissed Scott Styris (two), Ed Smith (33) and Ed Joyce next ball.
In worsening light, captain Ben Hutton and Dalrymple both hit sixes off Surrey's spinners in an attempt to reach the par score but could not beat the weather.
Clarke shared a 50-run stand for the third wicket with Jonathan Batty (39) and a further 43 for the fourth with Scott Newman.
But Surrey's total would have been far less impressive were it not for the 24 runs Tim Murtagh took off Melvyn Betts.
The pace bowler was swung over cover, hit through midwicket twice and then saw the long-on fielder touch the rope to allow another boundary
Twenty20 Cup, 2005, South Division
Surrey v Middlesex
The Brit Oval, London
28 June 2005 (20-over match)
Result: Surrey won by 22 runs (D/L Method)
Points: Surrey 2, Middlesex 0
Toss: Surrey
Umpires: JW Holder and JF Steele
Surrey innings R M B 4 6
JGE Benning c Shah b Styris 15 15 12 2 1
*AD Brown b Betts 2 1 4 0 0
+JN Batty lbw b Peploe 39 30 32 6 0
R Clarke lbw b Dalrymple 46 30 28 7 0
SA Newman b Pathan 22 28 20 3 0
Azhar Mahmood c Peploe b Betts 19 11 12 4 0
IDK Salisbury b Pathan 5 4 3 1 0
TJ Murtagh not out 24 5 8 3 1
Harbhajan Singh not out 1 4 1 0 0
Extras (lb 4, w 3) 7
Total (7 wickets, 20 overs) 180
DNB: ND Doshi, PJ Sampson.
FoW: 1-3 (Brown), 2-27 (Benning), 3-77 (Batty), 4-120 (Clarke),
5-144 (Azhar Mahmood), 6-155 (Newman), 7-156 (Salisbury).
Bowling O M R W
Betts 4 0 51 2
Pathan 4 0 26 2 (1w)
Styris 4 0 32 1
Peploe 4 0 29 1
Hutton 2 0 26 0 (1w)
Dalrymple 2 0 12 1 (1w)
Middlesex innings (target: 101 runs) R M B 4 6
OA Shah c Benning b Murtagh 6 13 10 1 0
ET Smith c Brown b Clarke 33 24 22 5 0
SB Styris c Sampson b Clarke 2 6 3 0 0
JWM Dalrymple not out 18 20 17 1 1
EC Joyce b Clarke 0 0 1 0 0
*BL Hutton not out 16 15 13 2 0
Extras (lb 2, w 1) 3
Total (4 wickets, 11 overs) 78
To Bat: NRD Compton, IK Pathan, +BJM Scott, MM Betts, CT Peploe.
FoW: 1-29 (Shah), 2-41 (Styris), 3-41 (Smith), 4-41 (Joyce).
Bowling O M R W
Azhar Mahmood 2 0 19 0
Murtagh 2 0 12 1
Sampson 1 0 10 0
Clarke 3 1 11 3
Salisbury 2 0 11 0 (1w)
Harbhajan Singh 1 0 13 0
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