Falkland Crushed by Forfarshire

Forfarshire (10) : 327 for 3 in 50 overs.
(C Wallace 176*, R Watson 48, R Johnston 45)

Falkland (0) : 174 all out in 46.3 overs.
(B Strachan 55, A Ruhode 30, U Mohammed 3 for 12)

Forfarshire beat Falkland by 153 runs

Forfarshire won the toss and chose to bat first. Indeed, the home team simply batted Falkland out of this tie. Using all of their 50 overs Forfarshire scored 327 runs with their Captain, Craig Wallace 'carrying his bat' and scoring 176 not out. He was ably assisted by Ryan Watson, (48 runs) and Rory Johnston (45 runs). Wallace had reached 50 from 42 balls, his 100 from 96 balls and his 150 from 135 balls.

In reply, Falkland scored 174 all out in 46.3 overs. Top scorer was for Falkland was Ben Strachan with 55 from 60 deliveries. Forfarshire's Umar Mohammed returned bowling figures of 3 wickets for 12 runs from 8.3 overs. Alan Wallace took 2 wickets for 25 runs from 7 overs.

Keith Meakin