U9 Cricket beat Loretto

A convincing win!

On Wednesday 16th June 2021 we welcomed Loretto Under 9 boys for a thrilling game of cricket. It began when they elected to field having won the toss. Arthur and Fionn opened the batting for Cargilfield and got off to a strong start with a partnership of 25 from their 2 overs, including some lovely boundaries from both boys. The next pair was Caspian and Edward who made a partnership of 29, with Caspian hitting fours for fun as he smashed four of them over the legside boundary in one over. The impressive batting continued with Leo and James S both contributing some nice shots. We were also fortunate to have one Loretto boy playing with us to even the numbers and he played some lovely defensive strokes to keep his wicket against some good bowling and guide us to a formidable total of 88 runs.

Upon our turn to field, Arthur opened the bowling and got 2 wickets in 2 balls, catching one himself and Edward, captain of the side, caught the other. He went onto to make a second catch at midwicket in the following over off nice bowling from Fionn. More strong bowling was displayed towards the back half of the Loretto innings as James M and James S both knocked the stumps over with beautiful balls. However, what impressed most was the fielding as we had been working hard on that in training before the game. We managed 4 run outs, 2 from Caspian and 1 each from Edward and Arthur. This superb fielding performance meant we took 9 wickets, holding Loretto to just 7 runs. A comfortable 81 wicket victory should be viewed very positively however there are still areas to work on which we will be focusing on leading into the next match.

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