Shipwrecks Steering to Cup Gold?

The Shipwrecks won a victory that Francis Drake would have been proud of at Kingholm Channel on Wednesday, when they repelled the Healthpros' mighty Armada with only eight seaworthy vessels of their own.

Scores: HealthPros 118 for 8 (D Hill 31, Williams 15, Doig 14, Raj 11, Lawrie 10 ; R Raverty 2 for 25, C McKenna 2 for 21) : Shipwrecks 120 for 6 (P Raverty 40 ret, R Raverty 22, Fallas 14 n.o., Mahmood 13)

Close scrutiny of the Shipwrecks' Log suggests that stingy early overs by McEwan and Mahmood battoned down the hatches before relief bowling hands Richard Raverty and Chick McKenna captured their four wickets. For the opposition who were curiously lacking in Strachans, only Hill managed to build up much forward momentum.

Healthpros managed early breakthroughs when Service was run out for 2 and Captain McCuaig wnet for 4.  But from then on it was full steam ahead as the Raverty brothers pitched into the battle without running each other out and Mahmood and Fallas produced good backup rins to clinch the

Richard Raverty batting

contest in the last over.

On balance it was decided to award the Man of the Match to Richard Raverty for his contribution with both bat and ball.

There was less celebration on the Thursday when a reinforced squadron of players landed at Dalton, only to find that the game had been cancelled because of squally conditions.  Apparently a signalling error meant that Dalton's message was not picked up in time for our radio operators to issue an alert.

Incidentally, talk of cup glory is probably in vain as, even if we win the first round division, we would need to overcome one of the top teams in Division 1 to win it.