Largo on Saturday hosted Perth Doocot 2s in a key game to move out of the bottom 3 in the table. Captain for the day Das won the toss and asked Perth to bat first.

Opening the bowling with the usual pair of Rowley and Cusick, Largo got off to the perfect start with a wicket for Rowley with the first ball of the game with Sandhu taking a smart catch at short cover. Both bowlers continued to apply pressure throughout and looking likely to get wickets in each over. Both bowlers bowling through their 9 overs with Rowley ending with 3 wicket and Cusick very unlucky to end with just 1 and conceding just 10 runs from his spell and leaving Perth 30/4 after 18 overs. Change bowlers Sneddon and Barclay would soon pick up a wicket each, and when Warrender showed his sharpness in the field with a superb run out, chasing the ball down behind the stumps before a direct hit to run the batter out, Largo were well on top with Perth 50/7. Not for the first time this season though Largo would let this position slip, with dropped catches and allowing the batters to find the boundary too often letting Perth back into the game. Udayan would make the breakthrough with Perth on 129 getting two wickets in two balls and Largo hoped they could wrap up the innings here but Ali for Perth would have other ideas, adding another 30 runs before the final wicket would fall. 160 was set for Largo to win, a total they would have accepted before play but disappointing having had Perth 50/7.

Opening the batting with Warrender and Cusick, largo started well with Warrender finding a couple of boundaries before he would fall with the score on 26, looking to find another boundary. Worse was to come in the following over with Cusick setting off for a single to be turned back by new batter Rowley and find himself run out for 8. Das would join Rowley and look to settle Largo down and steady the innings. The pair moved the score onto 46 before Rowley was bowled for 10. Largo now needed Das and Kriskinans to build a partnership but both would fall within 3 overs, Das caught looking to hit the ball to the boundary and Kriskinans bowled and Largo were 54/5 in just the 16th over. From this point the innings never recovered with Coates, Sneddon, Barclay, Udayan and Singh all losing their wickets cheaply and largo being all out for 87 in just 22 overs.

A really disappointing batting performance chasing a very manageable target, with defeat leaving Largo in the bottom 3 in the league and needing to build confidence for the second half of the season which starts next week with the long trip to Aberdeen to face Gordonians.