Good win for Selkirk

As the light faded at Philiphaugh last evening, Selkirk notched up their first win of the season with 38 run win over Manderston CC.

Manderston won the toss and asked Selkirk to bat. The top order batsman all got a start but to the fore was the Captain, Michael Fenton, with a rumbustious 39 off 24 balls. The visiting bowlers proved tricky at times and their standout on the evening was Martyn Lawrenson who took his fourth wicket of the evening when Fenton lobbed the ball to Aristotle Davenport at deep mid-wicket. Bob Wilkinson added another 29 runs to the total, including two flicked sixes over the legside boundary, and was unbeaten at the end alongside Daniel Heard (10).

Set 137 to win, the visitors made slow but steady progress and would have fancied their chances at 10 overs with only 2 wickets down and 56 runs on the board. Terry Burgess (25) had looked dangerous but fell to Gregor Borthwick claiming his first wicket of the season. The bowling tightened and scoring slowed despite the direct approach of Hector Martin (28) who pushed the score along with a big six over square leg.

When Greg Fenton (2-3) removed Martin for the first of his 2 wickets this proved decisive and the Manderston score slowed further and their innings petered out under 100. Fourteen year old Shaun Wilkinson bowled the last over for Selkirk and can feel a wee bit aggrieved that he was denied his first senior wicket as S.Connington was dropped twice.