Dumfries overcame Greenock on Saturday at home in the Western Premier League thanks to a Walker and Sharpe Player of the Match performance from Chris Brockwell.
He was a main contributor in the push for runs in the Dumfries first innings with a score of 58 and then followed that up to halt Greenock’s progress with four wickets.
Scott Beveridge had earlier persisted and rode his luck to add 50 as opener. The Your Move Dumfries side reached 228 for 9, and successfully exploited all the available overs, with series of small but useful partnerships and with scores around the twenties from Robert McBride, Alan Davidson and James Cox.
Davidson threatened with three successive fours in one over only to be undone, bowled, in the next, but it was Brockwell that hit the shot of the day with a straight driven four punched off the back foot off the pace bowling of Sanghera.
The Greenock innings got off to a rapid start but the bowling of Chris McCutcheon and Alan Davidson managed to slow them down until the swinging sixties when the first wicket fell to the spinners; in fact the first five wickets fell. The innings collapsed from 67 for 0 to 72 for 5, with 3 wickets to Brockwell and 2 to Robert McBride, and started by a caught and bowled by McBride.
However Scotland under-19 player, Sean Fischer-Keogh made the home side apprehensive as he and Sanghera put together a 61 run partnership for the seventh wicket. Skipper McCutcheon eventually removed Fischer-Keogh lbw for 32. From there Greenock, and Sanghera (32) literally, limped their way to 177 all out in the last over for a Dumfries 51 run victory.
That win pushed Your Move Dumfries into a mid-table fifth but the local side will need to improve their all-round performance when they face Stirling County away in the league on Saturday.
Your Move Dumfries 228 for 9 (50 overs)
C Brockwell 58, S Beveridge 50
G Chambers 3-19, S Sanghera 3-46
Greenock 177 all out (49.4. overs)
S Sanghera 32, S Fischer-Keogh 32
C Brockwell 4-13, R McBride 2-36, A Davidson 2-23
Dumfries won by 51 runs
Scotland Representative Cricket
Former Dumfries junior Chris McBride got another call up for Scotland ‘A’ this week after impressing with his century in the Cricket Scotland ProSeries against the Caledonian Highlanders and Niamh Muir and Orla Montgomery played for the Scotland Performance Academy against Scottish Students last week with Orla top scoring with twenty nine for the Academy side.
