Scotland “A” players are progressing well at the start of the 2018 season. After a successful tour of Bath in Apr 2018 where they won across T20/50-overs matches against Bath CC and Gloucestershire 2nd XI, they have now defeated Durham 2nd XI team in a 3-day game played at Emirates Riverside ground.
George Munsey and Dylan Budge continued their good form from their Bath tour as both hit brilliant centuries along with handy contributions from Chris Greaves and Riyaad Henry, posted a mammoth total of over 500+ runs after their bowlers set-up the match nicely for them by dismissing Durham 2nd’s well within 200 in their first innings.
It was a great outing for Scotland’s Hamza Tahir, Majid Haq’s cousin, who picked up a total tally of 8/153 in the match and Christian Robertson, who picked up 5/80 in the match across both the innings. Scotland’s National squad captain, Kyle Coetzer, travelled with the squad as part of the support staff and will be impressed with some of the performances as Scotland prepare for a bumper summer of Cricket as they face England in an ODI followed by two T20I’s against Pakistan at home and then travel to Netherlands for T20I Tri-series involving the host’s and Ireland.
Brief Scores:
Durham 2nd XI 1st Innings 182 all out in 54.2 overs (Scott Steel 49, Liam Trevaskis 31, Ryan Davies 27, Adrian Neill 3/14, Christian Robertson 3/43, Hamza Tahir 2/49) and 2nd Innings 376 all out in 103.2 overs (Will Smith 136, Stuart Poynter 61, James Weighall 43, Ryan Davies 27, Hamza Tahir 6/104, Christian Robertson 2/37) lost to Scotland A 1st Innings 528 all out in 126.2 overs (Dylan Budge 151, George Munsey 123, Chris Greaves 86, Riyaad Henry 67, Ryan Pringle 4/102, Liam Trevaskis 3/51) and 2nd Innings 31/1 in 8 overs (George Munsey 18 n.o, D Richardson 1/11) by 9 wickets
