Weekend Sport – Cricket. 1st XI end Stoneywood Dyce’s 100% record in East Premier League

Saturday 11th May

Stoneywood Dyce CC     169 for 9 (50 overs – innings closed)    Stewart’s Melville Cricket Club    172 for 3  (42.1 overs).     Win by 7 wickets

The 1st XI gave themselves a lift when they decisively defeated previously unbeaten Stoneywood Dyce by seven wickets with time to spare at Inverleith on Saturday.  S-D won the toss and elected to bat, a decision they must have been regretting when Stew Mel had reduced them to 50 for seven in the sixteenth over.   Professional Shaylen Pillay and Ben Wilkinson, a recruit this year did the damage taking three wickets each with their seem bowling plus a run out mix up between batsmen.   Thereafter S-D set about mitigating the situation against the four spin bowlers they faced in the remaining time eventually reaching 169 thanks mainly to no 9 bat Garreth Wolmarans who made 67 not out from 105 balls.  What seemed a demanding total to achieve was ultimately reached quite easily by Stew Mel with Shaylen Pillay top scoring with 56 not out, Kris Steel making 40, Ben Wilkinson 27 and Hayden Sweet 21 not out.

The win took the 1sts halfway up the league table to 50% from two completed matches and merited a leading feature in the Scotsman’s Monday sports supplement.

The match ball was sponsored by former player from the sixties, David Anderson.

On Thursday the 1st XI open their T20 Masterton Trophy programme with a game against Carlton at Inverleith (6.15pm) and on Saturday face Grange in the EPL at Inverleith (1pm).   It is hoped that a few spectators might attend each game in the knowledge that the clubhouse and bar will open.

For the scorecard click on the following link

http://www.stewartsmelvillecricket.com/11-05-19-scorecard-stewarts-melville-v-stoneywood/