Greenock 2nd XI Glenpark 228 all out
Bute County and Cowal 80 all out
GREENOCK’S 2nd XI Glenpark travelled to play bottom team Bute County and Cowal in a Western Championship Three league match at The Meadows in Rothesay.
Put in to bat after the toss was won by the home side, the Glenpark team made a stuttering start. Early in the 14th over, the score stood at 40 runs for the loss of four wickets with the first four batters back in the clubhouse.
However, a 50-run partnership from team captain Eddie Ahmad and Kurukulasuriya Leema got the innings back on track. Immediately after the drinks break Ahmad was bowled by Adam Guy having scored 21 runs, but the momentum created by the partnership continued when Mahmood Ahmadzai joined Leema.
The pair proceeded to put on a further 61 runs in just five overs with Ahmadzai the main aggressor. He smashed three ‘sixes’ and a boundary as the Glenpark score rocketed to 151 for the loss of six wickets before he was bowled by Joe Kennedy having scored 29 runs from just 17 balls.
The remaining four Glenpark wickets produced another 77 runs to take the team total to 228 when the last wicket fell in the 36th over. Kurukulasuriya Leema was top scorer for the visitors with 69 runs, while a last wicket partnership of 32 runs by Hami Safi, 23 not out, and Mo Dilpory, 13, took the team to a very commanding final score.
Bute County and Cowal got off to a rapid start in their innings with former Greenock 1st XI player Louis Ware hammering 20 runs via two ‘sixes’ and two boundaries from the first over.
With little support from other batters, Ware continued to be the main threat as he regularly dispatched the Glenpark bowling either to the boundary or over the boundary line for sixes. Ware’s swashbuckling innings came to an end in the 15th over when he was caught by Ahmadzai off the bowling of Dilsoz for 68 with his team’s score on 80 for the loss of six wickets. He had smashed five boundaries and seven ‘maximums’ in his innings.
The departure of Ware heralded the end of the Bute reply as the remaining wickets fell without any addition to the score. Zabi Dilsoz with 4 for 24 and Mahmood Ahmadzai, 3 for 5, were the main Glenpark wicket-takers as the team maintained its top-of-the table position with just three games remaining.
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