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Inverurie Cricket Club |
Inverurie’s season started last Saturday with a comfortable win over Methlick in a friendly at Kellands Park. Although some of the Inverurie players taking the field were in the super-veteran category, the average age was reduced and the team boosted by the inclusion of Chris Parr and Gwil Lloyd Jones, two new recruits from Aberdeen University as well as Richie Lamb, on leave from Aberdeenshire whose match was cancelled. Methlick seemed to be short of some familiar faces.
Inverurie batted first and were comfortable from the outset although the pitch was of the typical early season variety and very slow, with nothing in the way of bounce. These conditions require a particular type of application, and the classy Lloyd Jones succumbed by playing back instead of forward. This brought skipper Norval to the crease, fresh from his debut hundred in the last game of last season and a different man for it, which he proved by cruising to another one before retiring. Some of the bowling was shoddy, but Norval’s shot-making was outstanding given the conditions.
Hadden also accumulated some useful crease time by compiling a half-century. Hadden and Lamb junior were both bang to rights leg before in the course of something of a collapse, but Stuart Randall batted well in the later stages, and was last out in the 45th over with the total at 244.
The Methlick top order played Lamb well without being able to get him away, and it was Ally Burn from the other end who did the early damage. He bowls a lot of wides, which takes the pressure off, but on a good day with some assistance from the pitch, is capable of wicket-taking deliveries. Methlick’s approach relies on hitting boundaries to keep up with the scoring rate and pretty soon they needed two of these every over which was never on. Inverurie’s four-pronged spin attack chased in with the wickets shared around. Hadden had to absorb a setback when he bowled Buchan who was given not out with both umpires unsighted and Buchan apparently not satisfied. It’s a pretty sorry state of affairs when batsmen won’t walk when they’re bowled in a friendly.
The match ball was donated by Honorary President Doug Reid, Kellands Road, Inverurie.
Inverurie 245 all out off 44.3 overs (T. Norval 100 retd, G. Hadden 51, B. Anderson 3 for 39) beat Methlick 176 all out off 44.5 overs (P. Cox 30, A. Burn 4 for 44, G. Lloyd-Jones 3 for 8)