Forrester High School was the venue for the Finals Night of the ESCA Indoor 6s tournament, with HX taking on Marchmont in the opening semi and Edinburgh Accies going into battle against Musselburgh.
So, after a call to arms, Sixes Skipper KF took his men, actually, Shannon was there on time and he done the coin toss, with the Cross fielding first.
Jimmy McOscar, took an early scalp and Shannon was on fire too, sending the bails in opposite directions. Unfortunately, the Marchmont men had racked up a few hits off the walls, as you do in this version of the game, and they'd raced to 67-2 after 5 overs.
Balls bounced off walls as KF et al tried to mash Marchmont however it wasn't to be until the final over when McOscar had the easiest of run-outs to contend with.
A further wicked fell when the big South African Corne van Jaarsveld tried to puncture a hole in the roof however the ball dropped from the rafters into the path of that man McOscar who whipped the bails off again. Our opponents finished on 131-4, a pretty meaty total....
A low scoring attack to start off meant an extra special effort would be required to pull this one out the fire. Raja was stumped as he tried to whip up a haymaker, Jimmy was cleaned out and that meant KF came in to pull this all together. The big hitter lashed out and his 6 & 4 in quick succession gave hope - until he was caught by Corne.....
It went from 57-2 to 57-3 then Shannon came along to add a few runs to the scoreboard before succumbing to a Chippy catch after the ball hit the roof before plummeting like a stone into his hands.
It was all over shortly after when, erm, 'Nightwatchman' Alex Candlish lost his wicket and with that, Cross lost their semi final.
In the Final, Marchmont swept aside Musselburgh, who could only hit 42 in their innings, and for the 2nd year in a row, the Indoor 6s trophy plus prize money went to Marchmont. Well done guys.
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