The two Dumfries Cricket Club sides both kept up their winning starts to the season on Saturday against Kilmarnock and the Kilmarnock second team, Kirkstyle, to remain top of their respective tables after round 3 of the West leagues.
At Kilmarnock, in Western Premiership 2, Your Move Dumfries fought back after Kilmarnock’s Fourie dominated an opening stand of 76 by hitting 67. From that point Dumfries took 10 wickets for a further 60 runs. Bowlers Alan Davidson, skipper Chris McCutcheon and Chris Brockwell made inroads before Callum Reynolds-Lewis followed on from his 5 wicket heroics last week to spin out a further 4. Tommy McGrath cleaned up the tail with 2 wickets for a Kilmarnock total of 136 all out.
Dumfries lost two early wickets and it required a match winning innings of 68 not out by opener Chris Bellwood for victory. He was the AXL Menlove Roofing Player of the Match and shared a fifty-run 5th wicket partnership with Chris Brockwell, who scored 23 not out, for a 6 wicket win.
At home at Dumfries, in Western Championship 2, the Nunholm second team won convincingly against Kilmarnock seconds, Kirkstyle. The home team seemed in a hurry as they rattled along at over 8 runs-an-over but they lost wickets in the process. Wahid Jabarkhil hit 33 and Munro Cubbon with 34 shared the important 5th wicket seventy-run partnership with Ronan Dunbar. AXL Menlove Roofing Player of the Match Dunbar top scored with 62 and Ross Lamb added 25 as Nunholm finished on 238 all out.
Nairn Munro set the tone for the Dumfries side by hitting the stumps in his first over and Stuart Alexander’s experience came to the fore as he took a further four wickets. Ross Lamb took 2 and Trevor Newport claimed 3 wickets to bowl out Kirkstyle for just 54.
Dumfries junior Billy Morgan scored 45 on debut for Western Warriors Under-15s in their one wicket loss to Caledonian Highlanders on Sunday. Meanwhile on Friday, Dumfries Under-13s won their league game at Carlisle by 38 runs after scoring 114 for 4. Revatha Senanayake and Cory Dawson both retired on thirty and Danny Allsop took three wickets.
On Sunday, in the Scottish Women’s Premier League, the combined Watsonians/Dumfries side won by nine wickets against Grange Women in Edinburgh. Orla Montgomery and Niamh Muir each took a wicket in Grange’s all out score of 113 and opener Niamh hit 53 not out in the successful chase for two wins out of two.
This Saturday, Dumfries play at home against East Renfrewshire and Nunholm are away against Woodfarm. For more information on cricket, junior, senior and women’s, at Nunholm, email [email protected]
Photo: Ronan Dunbar hitting out to score 62 for Nunholm
