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This is an excellent commemorative publication covering our 150th year at Philiphaugh and detailing the history of cricket being played there. It leans heavily on the original history of the club but brings us up to date from the centenary year in 1951 with interesting insights and notable achievements.
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PLANS are in hand for the club to undertake a pre-season tour to the Derbyshire Dales in 2023. A fixture has been arranged on Saturday, April 22, against Chatsworth CC – the club for which former Selkirk skipper John Everitt now plays. The Selkirk party will travel down on the Friday, returning home on the Sunday. Supporters are welcome to join the tour, and anyone interested should give their names to club secretary John Smail. The Chatsworth club is located in the 1,000-acre Chatsworth Park, which attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. It is set alongside the River Derwent and has views of the house, park and 200ft ‘emperor’ fountain. It is believed cricket has been played at Chatsworth, in some form, for nearly 200 years – the first mention of cricket being played at Chatsworth appears in Queen Victoria’s diary, dated October 20th, 1832.
SELKIRK proved too strong for visitors Milngavie on Saturday, recording an 81-run victory in a 30-over friendly played on Philiphaugh’s artificial wicket.
Openers Michael Fenton and Ian Gardiner stood up well to the visiting bowlers, who will have rued some early missed chances.
Selkirk reached 57 from the first 10 overs, skipper-for-the day Fenton crashing a straight four over the bowler’s head to reach his 50, but fell three balls later to Kumar. Brodie then removed Gardiner (24), leaving Selkirk 81 for two at drinks.
When play resumed Rory Banks was dropped in the deep off the bowling of Brodie, and this was to prove an expensive mistake. Kieran Toor played patiently at the other end while Banks rattled up his half-century in 33 balls.
The free-scoring Banks soon began to run out of overs in which to reach his second century of the season. Harry Murphy added 10 runs to the total in a brief cameo appearance, but Banks was the star of the show, reaching 91 at the close of the innings, leaving the tourists needing 196 for victory.
Milngavie openers Dennis and Busby looked capable of setting the right pace, before Daniel Heard struck in his fourth over, Dennis lobbing the ball to mid-off where Murphy was on his toes to pouch a diving catch.
Michael Fenton removed the other opener in the next over, but the high run rate meant Milngavie were still in touch. The new batsmen then raised some concerns when both hit top bowler Heard for six.
In his next over Heard almost had his revenge, but Sindal was dropped in the deep going for a repeat of his six from the previous over.
At drinks Milngavie were still in the game but needed to up the pace. With Rory Banks and John Henderson now bowling, the visitors began to take risks. Banks struck first, removing Sindal, before Henderson trapped Islam LBW.
Selkirk shared out the bowling, with all but one of their eight bowlers ending up amongst the wickets: the highlight being a quicker ball from spinner Toor, tearing through Morrison’s defence to hit the stumps.
Toor then took his second, and Milngavie’s final, wicket, leaving the visitors 81 runs short of their target after 29 overs.
SELKIRK put further pressure on second placed Murrayfield DAFS II at the top of East League Division 3 following a pulsating victory over the city side at Philiphaugh.
The visitors asked Selkirk to bat after winning the toss, and openers Greg Fenton and Harry Murphy found runs hard to come by. Fenton’s was the first wicket to fall in the 13th over, the home skipper being bowled by off-spinner Patrick Andrews (2-41) for a carefully compiled 33.
Andrews dismissed Michael Fenton (24) a few overs later, and at drinks Selkirk had reached 79-2. Murphy (18) and Rory Banks (14) looked set to make some progress but both succumbed to R. Mohammed, who went on to finish as the visitors’ top bowler with 4 for 23. Selkirk would add a meagre, but ultimately vital, 36 runs in the final 15 overs for a modest total of 135 for eight.
Despite losing a couple of early wickets, Murrayfield DAFS II looked the most likely winners as opener Mulholland (30) and Peters (21) proved a dangerous combination – the latter hitting a huge six to cow corner off Kenny Paterson. However, Peters was caught flat-footed by Rory Banks in the next over, out LBW.
Chinni (44) and Mulholland got things back on track for Murrayfield, until Greg Fenton brought himself on to bowl and bent back Mulholland’s stumps in his second over. Opening bowler Michael Fenton (2-32) then returned to the fray, with Chinni helping himself to 15 runs from the first two overs of his spell, including a majestic six back over the bowler’s head.
With the visitors six wickets down, the Souters continued to keep up the pressure. With his dander now up, Michael Fenton out-thought Murrayfield batsman Chinni, who mistimed a quicker delivery and sent the ball high to extra cover. The ever-reliable Blaine Gillie, running round from mid-off, took the difficult catch to change the momentum of the match.
The visitors only managed to add seven runs for the final three wickets, falling short of their target by 22 runs.
Banks (3-16) and Greg Fenton (4-9) shared seven wickets for the loss of 25 runs. Despite some earlier drops, some fine catches were taken towards the end of the match, including an excellent one-handed diving effort from Michael Fenton (now behind the stumps) and the match-winner catch by vice-captain Kenny Paterson.
Selkirk will need to show all of the fight they displayed on Saturday to Edinburgh next week, where they face a Grange III team also on the rise in Division 3.
