Selkirk<\/a>\u2019s top scorer, steadying the ship after the loss of two early wickets. The all-rounder had looked on course for his half-century, until being caught in the covers by Gajander Singh off the bowling of B. Risi.\n<\/p>\n\n The arrival of Michael Fenton at the crease gave fresh impetus to the home innings, but his departure when he had scored 23 runs led to a mini-batting collapse \u2013 Selkirk losing their next four wickets for 15 runs, eventually finishing on 99-9 after 35 overs.\n<\/p>\n
\n R. D. Souza (4-22) was the visitors\u2019 top bowler, their other wicket-takers being K. S. Dhwgra (2-17), B. Risi (2-19) and G. Singh (1-10).\n<\/p>\n
\n In reply, Boroughmuir got their innings off to a flying start thanks to solid knocks from A. Ghaffar (44) and L. Dignre (20).\n<\/p>\n
\n The match\u2019s turning point came when Selkirk skipper Daniel Heard tossed the ball to his third-change bowler, Rory Banks.\n<\/p>\n
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Selkirk’s Greg Fenton is mobbed by team-mates after running out Boroughmuir’s final batter to clinch victory at Philiphaugh on Saturday (Image: John Smail)\n<\/p>\n
\n After clean-bowling the hard-hitting Ghaffar in his second over, Banks then produced a double wicket maiden in his next, eventually finishing with the superb figures of 3- 7 from five overs.\n<\/p>\n
\n From being 65-3 after 21 overs, Boroughmuir suffered a similar batting collapse as their hosts, losing their last seven wickets for the addition of just 23 runs. The visitors eventually finished on 88 in the 31st over, 11 runs short of the home total.\n<\/p>\n
\n Apart from Banks, Selkirk\u2019s other wicket-takers were Daniel Heard (3-28), David Gardiner (1-13), Michael Fenton (1-19) and Greg Fenton (1-21).\n<\/p>\n
\n The match was played in an excellent spirit throughout, and an appreciative crowd applauded both teams as they left the pitch.\n<\/p>\n
\n Selkirk\u2019s next game is an away fixture against MDAFS 2 at Roseburn Park on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a match reduced to 35 overs,\u00a0the home side pulled off a remarkable 11-run victory against the previously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-665850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}