Shipwrecks Becalm Allstars

The Shipwrecks navigated their way calmly by the Allstars by five wickets in the first round of the Foster's Midweek Cup on Wednesday.  Having less firepower on display than in the League fixture, the Allstars never really got underway on batting first and did not manage a single boundary.

Scores: Galloway Allstars 42 - 5 (Teale 11 ; Cameron 2-9) : Shipwrecks 45 – 5 (Service 13, P. Raverty 10 ; McGrath 3-5)

Things started to go awry when Hamblin Sr. was run out by Taylor's underarm throw and J. McCulloch lobbed a catch to Fallas at mid-off.  Cameron then bowled Ramsay and Mahmood captured the key wicket of McGrath to a sharp caught and bowled, finally cradling the ball in between his forearms.

From there on there was no return passage for the Allstars and Shipwrecks were happy to let them drift quietly to their final total of 42.

In reply, the home team inevitably suffered some damage to the accurate canonballs of McGrath, who again bowled again off a run up of about 20 yards but fortunately it was not necessary to call the Ship's Surgeon.  Mike Service and Pat Raverty struck a couple of lusty blows before McEwan and Mahmood saw the boat in during the twelfth over.

Dougan survives an lbw appeal against McGrath

It had been agreed that the Shipwrecks would bat their full twenty overs to allow both teams some extra target practice, by which stage they had reached 95 - 7 after a couple of late run outs (Mahmood 24, McEwan 16 n.o., Cameron 13)