Shipwrecks on Crest of Wave

The Shipwrecks were riding high after they won their second Midweek League encounter with Lockerbie on a murky night last Wednesday, but not without some alarms on the way.  By the time the winning runs were scored it was almsot nightfall, so dark in fact that the Shipwrecks' bowling figures were completely illegible after the match finished.

The late arrival of the ferry from Lockerbie containing skipper Andy Veitch and the away team's kitbag always made it likely that the team batting second would have the worst of it and, inevitably, it was Shipwrecks who lost the toss and were asked to bowl.

Andy Cameron again struck early but asked to be taken off with a knee strain. Shipwrecks then struggled in the field, leaking extras and missing catches as Captain Taylor sought for the right bowling combination to restrict Stevie Crawford and evergreen John Smith.  Eventually he tried himself, picking up a couple of wickets after nearly dismissing Veitch early on.

An exciting moment from Wednesday's game

Faced with a total of 103 and no navigation lights as the gloom descended, Shipwrecks sent out their big guns to try and resolve the battle early and it sort of worked.  Although Davey Dillon, Gregory and Matthew Robinson and Ian Whitby all fell early, Mike Service weighed in with some powerful shots in his 23 and Geoff Dean cruised to another maximum.  By the time Taylor and Sandy McNay were together at nightfall less than 20 were needed with plenty of overs remaining and the field still set deep. So the old codgers realised all they had to do was stay in and not collide with each other between the wickets.

A couple more boundaries helped and the task was duly achieved when they scampered home for two runs off a bye.  So it is an untypically successful start to the season for the boys from The Ship, but they cannot expect an easy passage against Annandale Insurance at Nunholm next Thursday unless they liven up in the field.

Incidentally, fixtures like the above surely restate the case for orange or pink balls in evening fixtures as previously argued in an earlier post

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Annandale Insurance game is now off as Nunholm have withdrawn one of their teams from the League.