Largo 2nd XI travelled to League leaders Kinloch 3s on Sunday in good form fresh off back-to-back wins for the first time this season. Brent Bentley captained the Largo side and after winning the toss he chose to bowl first.

Largo opened the bowling with one of the 3 father and son duos in the Largo side on the day, this occasion it was Stuart and Innes Macdonald and Stuart gave Largo the dream start with 2 prodigiously swinging deliveries resulting in two wickets in the first over, one bowled and one thanks to a smart catch at point by Alan Tocher, the home side 0/2.

The wickets brought in Abdullah Khan to join Khurshid at the crease and immediately the pair put the pressure back on the Largo side, with their big hitting ability on show from the off. Khan especially was dismissive of anything off line from the Largo bowlers as Bentley rotated his bowlers to little success as mid innings drinks came and went with the home side nearing 100.

Both batters would pass 50 followed soon after by Tocher for the 2nd time in 3 weeks unfortunately heading to the hospital mid game, this time with a very serious finger injury and we wish him well in his recovery. Khurshid would eventually retire on 76 but Khan would go on to complete his hundred finishing on 123 not out. The Home side would finish on 256/2 in their 40 overs but the innings would provide good senior cricket practice for juniors Innes Macdonald, Murdo Duncan and debutant Cameron MacLeod who all performed better than their stats would show with the ball as well as being lively in the field.

In reply Largo opened with Bentley and Slade but immediately they were up against it with Bentley getting a leading edge back to the bowler Khan for 2, followed soon after by the dismissals of Brown LBW for 1 and Slade bowled for 4 to leave the visitors 9/3. Sandhu and Ally Duncan would however steady the innings and put on a 50 partnership for the 4th wicket.

Sandhu though after dealing in boundaries would go for one shot too many on 24 and was bowled, before Innes (6) and Murdo (4) would go with the score still yet to reach triple figures. Stuart Macdonald though would join A.Duncan and show the promise he has with the bat lower down the order by equalling his top score of 22 before he was bowled soon after A.Duncan was dismissed the same way for a top scoring 38. C.MacLeod will be happy to have got off the mark in senior cricket with his first runs before his dad Ewan went as the final wicket to leave Largo 131 all out, and on the wrong end of a 125-run defeat.

This was a tough outing for the Largo side against the league leaders and was marred by the injury once again to Tocher. However the match practice for many young and older will put them in a good position to look to get back to winning ways next weekend back home vs St Modans 2s.