Selkirk secured a seven wicket victory over local rivals Hawick on a bright Thursday evening at Philiphaugh. The hosts won the toss and asked the teries to bat.
The visitors never quite got going but hirpled to 60 runs with the final wicket falling on the penultimate ball. The top bowling figures went to Kieran Toor (3-6) taking all of his three wickets in four balls. Blaine Gillie (2-9) removed Hawick top scorer E.Alexander (16) with his first ball of two interesting overs, taking his second wicket with a ball which pitched in front of his feet and looped underneath the bat of G.Welsh. The souters captain G.Fenton dropped a difficult over the shoulder catch early in the innings but made up with it with a hat-trick of catches in the deep. He was however upstaged for stylish catches by Toor who took a diving one handed catch fielding at point.
In reply the Selkirk captain opened the innings with a flicked six to the leg boundary. It provided notice of a blistering captains knock by G.Fenton (44), including 4 sixes, which took the game beyond Hawick. R.Pringle proved difficult for the Selkirk top order and took two wickets for 5 runs. However the game was gone for the visitors and M.Fenton(7) finished it off with a 4 hooked to the mid wicket boundary.
Being Selkirk’s only fixture against Hawick & Wilton this season, the Ronnie Simpson memorial trophy was up for grabs. Having spent the year over at Buccleuch Park, it was satisfying to see the Fletcher statuette returned to the Philiphaugh trophy cabinet in this the club’s special anniversary year.
SELKIRK – G. Fenton, K. Paterson, M. Fenton, B. Wilkinson, I. Gardiner, B. Gillie, A. McNeil, A. Beveridge, A. Murphy, J. Hughes, K. Singhtoor.
