Shipwrecks Back On Course?

Geoff Dean took over the captaincy for the last couple of weeks in June, while Captain Taylor was away in Austria looking for fresh talent.

Unfortunately, this period coincided with a further downturn in our fortunes, namely League and Cup encounters at Dalton, who have filled their team with various stowaways, privateers and mercenaries, presumably in attempt to claim buried treasure at the end of season.

In the two clear defeats that resulted, we did however put up a good performance in the cup game, when both Robinsons bowled some decent deliveries and Mike Lumb rediscovered his wicket keeping gloves.  So it actually took the Dalton Allstars seventeen overs to reach our modest total of 53. Apparently however, the talking point of the game was a rare beamer from Sandy McNay which at least left some mark on the opposition

This week the 'Wrecks steamed back up the League, but only because Kirkmahoe could only muster four players on the night and conceded the fixture.

The succeeding knockabout pairs game was won by Alex Taylor and Andy Cameron and, as well as providing much needed practice, served to demonstrate the current level of fitness of the crew, some of whom could be found indulging in beer and porky scratchings in The Ship Inn after the game.