NEWS

Village People

May 24 – PRESTONPANS
After two weeks of being bailed out by juniors, it was the turn of the grizzled veterans of RHC to pull their not inconsiderable weight.

A lost toss saw the Preston Village skip elect to bat, more down to the fact that late call offs had seen him reduced to having just seven bodies, although the arrival of a couple of passing conscripts allowed them to get up to nine by mid innings.

Chappers and Macca opened things up for the Lions attack, on a pitch with some variable bounce. Chappers striking first, removing the skipper with a shooter that went behind his legs and took leg stump. A little period of consolidation followed, runs proving hard to come by, chances being dropped and the new bat looking like a catch behind in the making. Sure enough, Ray was next to go, clean bowled by Macca for 9. Gray lasted six ball sbefore spooning one up to the safe hands of Ringles without scoring. Chappers claimed his third victim, number 199 in a Corstorphine shirt, in his next over, getting Black to snick one to Wrighty, making his debut behind the sticks, and already with more catches than JK.

Macca got in on the act now, bowling Anderson and having Bonthrone well caught by the Icecube. This had the Villagers 50 for 6, and in real trouble. The last pairings frustrated the bowlers, picking up the odd run here and there before Fraggle struck with the last ball of his only over, Balloch the victim for 14. The increasingly frustrated Ringles delayed his retirement by another week, wrapping up the innings with the aid of a flying catch from Jonesy, who launched himself, full stretch to his right at first slip, scooping the ball out of the air with barely a couple of inches to spare. Amazing what the prospect of a hot date can inspire in a man!!

Tea was taken, and the batting order decided, Icecube plus the juniors in the top five. Worry about the rest later was Mooro’s view. So, Ozzie and the Icecube strode to the middle like Little and Large. Only adding to the surprise as Ozzie took strike.

From their it was plain sailing. The only alarms being Ozzie’s general keenness to run everytime he played the ball, but, for the second time these two made the target for no loss.

Four wins on the spin, time to go see the two’s finish off Haddington for their own convincing win and all’s almost right with the world of RHC 3’s.

Preston Village 2

Extras 14
Total: all out 76 from 23.3overs

P Chapman 7 2 26 3
A Maconnochie 7 0 21 3
A Moore 4 1 15 0
R Inglis 4.3 1 7 1
F West 1 0 2 1

RHC 3's

Extras 13
Total: for 0 wickets 77 from 11.1overs

J Ray 4 0 25 0
S Balloch 3 0 20 0
J Anderson 2.1 0 15 0
A Grieve 2 0 10 0

Other games:
Dunfermline 3 102ao (5) Broomhall 2 106-4 (20)
Dunbar 143-7 (20) Morton 2 60ao (5)
Drummond/Trinity 2 92ao (20) Leith FAB 3 68ao (7)