SPORTS YEARBOOK 2011 (Including the 2009-2010 Review

Competition results for the year:
BUCS Wild Water Race
Men's team - 2nd place
Women's team - 7th place
University ranking - 7th
Varsity points – 26 (Oxford 10)
BUCS Slalom
Men's individual K1 - 4th - James
Dixon
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Blues Varsity Matches, Lords, 4 July
2010
There is life in Varsity cricket yet:
the crowds may no longer come in
thousands, but, as Cambridge
chased 271 to defeat an
experienced Oxford side – and to
record only a third win at Lord’s
since 2000 – the health of the
ancient fixture was made clear.
Parity was maintained throughout
most of the first two hours.
Cambridge captain Akbar Ansari
had asked Oxford to bat first, and
while openers Daniel King and
Sam Agarwal fell over straight
balls and Dark Blue captain Raj
Sharma chipped to cover, the elder
Sharma – Avi – and long-time
Cambridge’s bête noire, Neil
Kruger, took the score to 132
without further alarm. Still, when
Sharma skewed Dan Goodwin to
point and Kruger was caught
smartly at the wicket, restricting
BUCS Polo
Mens – 4th
Women's – 19th
Open league – 4th
Old boys – 5th
Men's Regional Division 1 Canoe
Polo – 1st
Men’s National Division 3 Central
League Canoe Polo – 8th
Oxford to fewer than 230 seemed
eminently possible. Such was not
to be: the returning Cambridge
seamers offered width and
generous lengths, and some
seventy runs haemorrhaged from
the batting power play, taken by
Australian duo Nick Meadows and
Daniel Pascoe. Meadows was
finally caught for a summarily
brutal 66 from 49 balls as Oxford
finished on 270, a total which had
not been chased successfully since
the inauguration of the C.B. Fry
Trophy. Choice among the
Cambridge bowlers had been
Goodwin (2 for 43) and Marc
Rosenberg (2 for 28): only the
profligacy of their team-mates had
loosened a leash that they had
held tightly; only an electric
fielding triumvirate of Ansari,
Rosenberg, and Richard Hesketh
had prevented disintegration.
Perhaps becalmed by an
extraordinary lunch, the
Cambridge batsmen began their
reply inauspiciously. Richard
ULU Canoe Polo Tournament
Men's Team – 3rd
Open Team – 2nd
Timms fell lbw to Lewis Dingle;
Hesketh gloved a rising brute from
John Lodwick, while Anand Ashok
– struggling to replicate the form
which delivered him the Walter
Lawrence Trophy in 2009 –
scraped to 34 in some 20 overs
before charging and missing. From
here, though, captain Ansari and
Rosenberg led a compelling fightback.The
spinners Agarwal and
Pascoe were manoeuvred deftly,
and – when opportunity arose –
the forty-yard boundary to the
Warner Stand was targeted with
impunity. At 196/3, with both guns
firing, Cambridge looked set to
record a comfortable victory.
207/5, however, was less
promising: Rosenberg had finally
been caught at long-on and Ansari
lost – perhaps fatally – to a mix-up
with new batsman Frankie Brown.
Redemption found Brown,
however, by way of a thrilling,
unbeaten partnership of 64 with
Kennedy in which flamboyant
upper-cuts, scything square drives,
and smart running wrested back
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