On Saturday, the Gala 2nd XI made the long journey up to McKane Park where they would challenge Dunfermline and Carnegie 2nd XI in ESCA’s division 6. Seb Loumeau won the toss and Gala would bat first with an opening pair of Sujan and Robbie Paterson.

Gala got off to a solid start with the openers punishing the bad ball away to the boundary. Robbie Paterson made 19 before he was bowled by Rowley. Toor would join Sujan who was now firing with the bat however the partnership would end very early with Toor being trapped in front LBW again off the bowling of Rowley.

Bishnoi scored 1 in his short time of the crease and McAneny joined Sujan looking to play some attacking shots. When McAneny fell (13) Ponneri joined Sujan. Sujan played some smart sensible shots along with some punishing blows in his score of 66 before he was removed. Ponneri carried on where Sujan left off showing his talents with the bat. Ponneri would raise the bat as he reached a century towards the end of the innings finishing not out on 108 along with captain Loumeau who played his part and was unbeaten on 32. Gala would post 260 runs on the board in a positive performance with the bat.

The Dunfermline run chase got off to a flier. A big partnership between Rowley and Spreng was an excellent watch. The introduction of Ashleigh Robertson however would be the downfall of the opening pair. First Roberston claimed the wicket of Spreng in his innings of 84 with some excellent work behind the stumps from Ponneri. Robertson’s second wicket would be Wood who scored 3 and then Robertson would claim the prized wicket of Rowley as he was bowled for 115. Gala now in a more commanding decision managed to take 3 more wickets in their defence as Dunfermline ran out of overs to chase down the required total with Howis (20) and Miller (8) finishing the innings not out as they reached 247 leaving Gala with a brilliant win by 13 runs. As previously mentioned, Robertson was the pick of the Gala bowlers she took 3 wickets with two of them being crucial wickets.

A great performance from the 2nd XI now moves them to 3 wins from 4 games. With the team in a promising position and after a good result the 2’s will be very confident moving into next week as they host Boroughmuir 2nd XI to Meigle Park.

GALA SCORECARD
A Sujan lbw D Deenadayalan 66
R Paterson b S Rowley 19
K Toor lbw S Rowley 0
A Bishnoi c sub b S Rowley 1
S McAneny b M Howis 13
S Ponneri not out 108
S Loumeau not out 32

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Gala 2nd XI 260-5 off 40 overs

DUNFERMLINE BOWLING

P Brown 8-0-67-0
P Millmore 3-0-18-0
M Howis 8-1-29-1
S Rowley 8-1-26-3
D Deenadayalan 2-0-23-1
R Cox 7-0-47-0
D Wood 2-0-26-0
J Spreng 2-0-16-0

DUNFERMLINE SCORECARD
S Rowley b A Robertson 115
J Spreng st S Ponneri b A Robertson 84
D Wood b A Robertson 3
D Deenadayalan run out 0
M Howis not out 20
R Cox b S Ponneri 2
A Leitch run out 0
D Miller not out 8

GALA BOWLING

S Ponneri 8-0-44-1
M Maceira 8-0-45-0
S Loumeau 8-0-40-0
A Bishnoi 4-0-29-0
K Toor 5-0-38-0
A Robertson 7-0-48-3