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REPORTS: Dumfries Move up to Third in Premier

REPORTS: Dumfries Move up to Third in Premier

Dumfries Cricket30 Jun 2022 - 16:30
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1s had their third consecutive win in the West Premier at Kelburne to move up to third spot

On Saturday, the Dumfries 1st team notched up their third consecutive win in the West Premier with a six wicket win at Kelburne to move up to third spot in the league.

Photo: Trying cricket with the Commonwealth Games Baton Relay at Dumfries Sports Club

Your Move Dumfries were asked to bowl first and managed to keep Kelburne to a total of 177 all out. Skipper Chris McCutcheon was instrumental in that with bowling figures of ten overs 2 wickets for just 7 runs. That was after the home side had started well to reach 95 for the loss of one wicket. At that point Jesse Smit took the first of his two wickets and Tom McBride immediately followed with a run-out. McCutcheon bowled opener Tarr for 46. Brockwell bowled another and McCutcheon struck again to alter the score suddenly to 113 for 6. However from there Kelburne stuck to their task and were all out on the final ball for that 177.

Dumfries openers, Adam Malik and Scott Beveridge, were successful with another fifty partnership together. Then Tom McBride joined Beveridge to successfully get the total within range. McBride scored 33 and then Beveridge was caught for the innings top score of 77 when it became 143 for 3. After that Dumfries comfortably passed the Kelburne total with ten overs still left and for four wickets down to move to third behind West of Scotland and leaders Prestwick. Your Move Dumfries are away at Ayr in the Premier League on Saturday.

Another Dumfries McBride brother, Chris McBride, was named in a Scotland men's squad again for the upcoming home Tri-Series against Namibia and Nepal and the series provides the opportunity to watch the local player in their matches in Glasgow and Ayr.

Your Move Dumfries beat Kelburne by 6 wickets
Kelburne 177 all out (50 overs)
C McCutcheon 2 for 7, J Smit 2 for 26, A Davisdon 2 for 49
Your Move Dumfries 178 for 4 (40.3 overs)
S Beveridge 77, T McBride 33

Dumfries 2nds, Nunholm, completed two wins on the Saturday after a huge score batting first at home against GHK Strathclyde in the West Second Division. They amassed 337 for 9 as the batting line-up cashed in. The Solway Insulation Player of the Match, Max Corbett-Byers, top scored with 76 with ten fours and two sixes. Opener Mat Williams scored 53 and Sean Thornely 23. After that the middle order had licence as they added a further nine sixes. James Cox hit 41 runs, young batter Jabarkhil 44, and Ronan Dunbar and Callum Reynolds-Lewis 25 and 16 respectively.

Buoyed by that total the Nunholm bowlers took regular wickets and only a last wicket partnership pushed the visitors past a hundred and up to 123 all out for a massive 213 run win for the Dumfries 2nd team. Hyder Hussain took three wickets, as did Cox. Sean Thornely took two in an economical spell and Reynolds-Lewis and Vaughn Staples took one each.

Nunholm beat GHK Strathclyde by 213 runs
Nunholm 337 for 9 (50 overs)
M Corbett-Byers 76, M Williams 53, W Jabarkhil 44, J Cox 41
GHK Strathclyde 124 all out (29.4 overs)
H Hussain 3 for 12, J Cox 3 for 18, Sean Thornely 2 for 19

Women's Cricket: There was another win on Sunday when the combined Dumfries, Galloway side defeated high fliers Northern Lights in the Women's Premier League. Needing to win to pursue their league title ambitions the team from all around the North were held to a three run defeat in the game at Perth.

Northern Lights opted to bowl first but Niamh Muir and Lorna Jack put together a fifty opening partnership against a probing bowling attack. Then Muir was lbw for 21 and Jack was stumped for 41 with the score at 76 for 3 in the 15th over. Into the closing overs of the weather reduced 20 over-a-side contest the side managed to sustain the five an over run rate until Sue Strachan was out caught off the last ball for 13 with the total at 96 for 7.

Faced with the top two run scorers in the league, Scotland players Becky Glen and Megan McColl, as the openers, the Northern side were favourites in the run chase. So the crucial moment in the match was when Katy Anderson bowled to Megan McColl with the score past forty after just five overs. McColl hit a cut shot hard but in the air only for Jo Williams to hold on to a screamer of a catch fielding at point for the grab of the season. She was out for nine and Rosy Ryan bowled another top run scorer Halliwell and when Jack got Glenn lbw for 36 the game was in the balance.

Emily Barnard took two wickets for a score of 70 for 5 with seven overs left and four an over required. Emma Fordyce also bowled economically and the two set batters were still there for the final over and with ten to win. That was bowled by Jo Williams who succeeded in only conceding six runs for a dramatic 3 run victory as Northern Lights finished on 93 for 5. Her final overs bowling and that vital catch earned her the Ashleigh Building Player of the Match.

Dumfries/Galloway Women beat Northern Lights by 3 runs
Dumfries/Galloway Women 96-7 (20 overs)
L Jack 41, N Muir 21
Northern Lights 93 for 5 (20 overs)
B Glenn 36; E Barnard 2 for 5, L Jack 1 for 11, R Ryan 1 for 18, K Anderson 1 for 20

Junior Cricket: Dumfries Sports Club was one of a handful of venues across Scotland for the Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay last week and the opportunity was taken by a queue of youngsters for 'come and try' sessions for the Commonwealth Games sports at a busy Nunholm with squash, hockey, running and with junior cricket, for which the club provides cricket programmes for girls and boys which start from 5 years upwards and with the extra addition of a programme for the summer holidays.

Dumfries Cricket Club welcome new players, of any age from 5 upwards, male and female, to come along to the club’s various sessions and can contact the club on dumfriescricketclub@gmail.com, via www.dumfriescricketclub.com, or on social media @dumfriescricket.

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