Falkland Move on in Challenge Cup

Falkland 281 for 9
(H Cooray 153, L Robertson 41 not out, T Holmes 3 for 33)

St Michael's 193 all out
(J Niemand 92, C Lumb 41, S Meikle 3 for 42)

Falkland Won by 88 Runs

Once again the sun shone on Falkland in more senses than one as they continued their winning ways with a fine win over Dumfries team St Michael's in the Cricket Scotland Cup on Sunday. It was a strange game dominated by two great performances of batting by Harsha Cooray of Falkland and by James Niemand of Dumfries. Yet Falkland got off to a dreadful start being 7 for 3 but whenever Cooray come in, the bowling and the fielding of the Dumfries disintegrated badly and never really recovered. The funny thing about Cooray's batting was that he didn't score a single 6 in his 153, and yet Falkland reached the mammoth total of 281, Harsha being helped by 39 from Darren Pearce and 41 not out from Lyle Robertson.

To have any chance the Dumfries team had to go for it from the outset, and indeed they did, reaching 70 after 8 Overs, but once Niemand and Lumb were out, the rest of the innings subsided. To be fair to St Michael's, they had a fairly weak team with several second XI players, but it was another good victory for Falkland, who were themselves without Ben Strachan.

David Potter