Dumfries Cricket Club concluded their early season friendly fixtures on Sunday with two T20 wins at home at Nunholm. Junior player Finley Trigg earned the BL Handyman Player of the Day award for his bowling effort, on his senior debut, with figures of 3 wickets for 33 across the two games.

The first team, Vigilant Dumfries, won by 30 runs against touring side Bharat Parivar from Birmingham with a winning score of 165 for 6 wickets. That total was set up by a rapid opening partnership with undefeated scores, before retiring, of 44 from South African James Ritchie, on debut, and 32 by Andrew Dawson. The total was boosted by further runs from Ben Plowman and Wahid Jabarkhil.

In reply, Dumfries reduced the visitors to 24 for 4 with Trefor Newport taking two early wickets. The visitor’s middle order bolstered the reply but that ultimately finished short on 135 for 9. James Cox also claimed two wickets.

On Saturday, in their first league encounters, the first team Vigilant Dumfries, are away at Kelburne in Western Premiership One and the second team, Nunholm, are at home to Renfrew 2s in Western Championship Two.

Vigilant Dumfries beat Bharat Parivar by 30 runs (T20 Friendly)
Vigilant Dumfries 165-6 (20 overs)
J Ritchie 44 rtd, A Dawson 32rtd, B Plowman 17, W Jabarkhil 11
Bharat Parivar 135-9 (20 overs)
J Cox 4 overs 2-16
T Newport 3 overs 2-14
J Ritchie 2 overs 2-35
F Trigg 3 overs 1-19
L Osmond 3 overs 0-24
W Osmond 2 overs 0-18
A Malik 2 overs 1-9

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