13s Get Season Underway with home Wigton Win

Catches win matches but only if the batting and bowling is competent.

Dumfries Thirteens got off to a terrible start with the top order being blown away, the first 6 wickets - no catches needed, all bowled - for only 36 runs.

Alex McMenemy, on debut, started the recovery but the hero was Munro Cubbon who was at the crease for 51 of his side's 87-run total - showing his more experienced team-mates the art of shot selection - defending the good ones, taking singles off the ok ones and smashing the rubbish.

But it would still need a good bowling and fielding performance to capitalise on Munro's effort and steal a victory from such an inauspicious start.

An impressive Matthew McBurnie, with Katy Anderson proving an able opening foil looked good but it was Munro himself that made the breakthrough by means of a fine catch.

Wigton's reply was under pressure but it took another excellent catch, this one by Samuel Wilcox, to really get things happening; two more catches followed and a couple of run-outs capped a good fielding display.