Dunfermline

Largo 2nd XI welcomed near neighbours Dunfermline 2nd XI to a sunny East Drive on Saturday, hoping to get their first win of the 2006 season in a game sponsored by JKF Ltd , Leven. Largo won the toss and elected to field, captain Seath was welcoming back Deemi Ali, Dick Dakin and David Galloway to his side and it was young Ali along with the other junior Brent Bentley who opened the bowling for Largo.

The Dunfermline openers started in a positive fashion and took the game to the young Largo bowlers but they stuck to their task. Ali had a catch dropped and Largo thought, here we go again, change bowler Steve Bentley also had one put down in slip before young Bentley finally got the breakthrough with Cook for the second week running showing the Largo boys how to catch making it 37 for 1 . The loss of the first wicket brought Miller to the crease who had scored a century the previous week, he went about the Largo attack in a devastating fashion, Seath had Sharp caught behind by Dakin for 29 runs to have the opposition 59 for 2. The score however was to move onto 128 runs before Cook took the wicket of the stylish Miller, trapping him LBW with his first ball for 68 runs. Three more wickets fell for the addition of only 23 runs putting Dunfermline on 151 runs for 6 wickets in the 35th over but a partnerships at the end by Manaf, Davidson and Brown moved the score along to an impressive 246 for 8.

Largo opened with Tocher as he had to leave early and he went about his business in a brisk manner, ably supported by Braid the score moved to 58 in the 12th over before Braid was run out. Dakin making his league debut joined Tocher and the score moved to 78 before Dakin too was run out as Tocher was perhaps trying to rush things to much knowing he was leaving early. The exciting Yousaf joined the fray but again he was a casualty of a rash call by Tocher who then had to retire on 46 runs. With the score on 97 for 3 from 20 overs plus Tocher retired Cook and young Nadeem Ali went out to the middle with still plenty to do. These two set about an indifferent attack in blistering style with young Ali the main aggressor ably supported by Cook. Cook eventually fell for 35 runs with the score on 170 from 30 overs, debutant Galloway joined Ali and these two played superb to take the score to 217 runs in the 37th over. Galloway scored 29 runs before he perished, the quick wickets of Rintoul and Seath followed leaving it to sixteen year old Ali supported by the slightly older Bentley senior to see Largo home with 6 overs to spare, Ali fittingly scoring the winning runs with a four and taking his total to 62 not out , an innings that showed the talent this young man has and it was a pleasure to watch.