On Saturday, Adam Malik hit a boundary laden maiden club century for Dumfries Cricket Club, in their Western Premiership 2 fixture against Kilmarnock. The home side amassed a huge total of 339 for 7 in the first innings, a record total across the league this season.
Openers Adam Malik and Chris Bellwood set the tone with an opening stand of 81 before Bellwood was out for 39. Chris Brockwell then partnered Malik in a 161-run stand before the latter was out at caught for an excellent 113 after a near six was caught on the midwicket boundary. From 242 for 2 Brockwell was then well supported by Fergus Bainbridge with 24 as he also tried to reach his century in the closing overs. In attempting that he was out caught for 86 and Alan Davidson launched a couple of sixes to take Dumfries to 339. However, rain intervened at the start of the second innings to force the match to be abandoned with the M Devlin Decorating highlight of the day being the 21 boundaries that Adam hit all around the ground in a well-deserved hundred. The remaining league games were similarly affected to keep Dumfries sitting at the top of the league with ten wins.
The Dumfries 2nds, Nunholm, were also halted by rain before the 2nd innings after spinners Sultan Kamran and Harith Hassan each took three wickets at Kilmarnock 2nds in their total of 131 all out. There were also good debuts from junior Cory Dawson who opened the bowling and finished with figures of 1 for 12 from his 8 overs and from Wasib Shah who finished off the innings with his two wickets. The side remains top of Western Championship 2, just, despite nearest rivals Hillhead rapidly winning their fixture.
The Dumfries Sunday XI were beaten by visitors Lanercost who reached a winning total of sixty eight to comfortably win by seven wickets. Junior players provided the high spots for Dumfries with Lachlan Osmond top scoring with eighteen followed by Bill Middlemiss with thirteen.
The Dumfries club were proud to see Nairn Cubbon and Billy Morgan make their Scotland debuts playing for Scotland U15s at Cheshire U15s during the week. Nairn opened the bowling and took two wickets and Billy batted at number three and was second top scorer albeit in a match well won by the Cheshire youngsters.
Next week sees a week of representative cricket at the Nunholm club with the Celtic Cup contested between Scotland U15s and Ireland U15s who visit Dumfries for a week of fixtures from Monday to Friday. For details of this and of weekly senior, women’s and junior sessions, and also cricket summer camps at Nunholm visit www.dumfriescricketclub.com.
This Saturday, Your Move Dumfries are away at East Renfrewshire, in eighth place, and the Dumfries 2nd team, Nunholm, are at home to fifth placed East Renfrewshire 2nds and aiming to stay top of Western Championship 2.
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Photo: Adam Malik hit an impressive maiden century for Dumfries on Saturday
