Largo stumble home

It was a curious game at East Drive when Largo entertained Grange3rds. in a game sponsored by Rob Roy Homes, Comrie. Largo made an immediate breakthrough when Sharif claimed the first wicket with the score on 5. It was 18 for 2 when the next wicket went down and Largo were keen to capitalise on their good start. The Edinburgh side rallied a bit and with the skipper Duboulay at the middle the runs started to accumulate. He became Ritchie’s first wicket and was soon was followed by Adgey who was brilliantly run out by Robinson. This set the tone for the rest of the innings where a Grange bat would look settled for them either to fall to a fine piece of work by the Largo side or lose concentration and throw their wicket away. Grange were finally all out for 123.

Largo started brightly enough as Sharif and Bob Mowat dealt with the bowling and played sensible cricket by pushing the ball around the park for ones and twos. Mowat was first to go caught on the crease and given out LBW. The in-form bat Robinson came in ad showed why he is the top scorer in the league by playing some classy shots round the ground. Following the departure of Sharif for 26 Robinson was joined by Kinnear and these two had ideas of winning the game for the home side. That all changed when Robinson  ran himself out and Kinnear was out soon after. Suddenly the collywobbles set in and Largo made hard work of getting the final 10 runs with 10 overs remaining.  Another 3 wickets fell until their old friend “extras” helped them out and Largo stumbled to victory.

Next week Largo travel he short distance to Freuchie for the Fife derby.