This week we went from fifteen players available on Thursday night, to nine on Friday, to eleven on Saturday to actually arriving at Kintore with 10 players. Unavailable from last week was Luigi Govil and promoted to the firsts was Muthu. Craig Fraser came in to keep wicket and despite the fluctuations in numbers, nine of last week’s team made the trip to play third top Kintore.
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There were only two changes in the line up this week, Ben Frizzel was promoted to the firsts and JPL Williams went back into exile. In came Nick Blyth and making only his second appearance of the season, Luigi Goval returned to strengthen the batting.
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Tagged Ben Frizzel, bowler, Ellon skipper Duncan, Karthik, Luigi Goval, Mike Phillips, Nick Blyth, Rob Fryer, Rory Annand, skipper, Tom Murray
The near impossible happened this week when the team was chosen by 10am on Thursday morning, but still showed four changes from last week’s team.
Magesh’s three friends from Edinburgh had better things to do this week, Skinner was recalled to the first XI and Mike Hart was unavailable, so in came Muthu to keep wicket, Rory Annand returned from an extended tour of the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Tom Murray returned from holiday, and JPL returned from his self imposed exile for the trip to Banchory.
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The 2nd XI team selection was finalised around Saturday lunchtime for the away match against Anchorians at the Duthie Park, but amazingly showed only four changes to the eleven involved in the thrilling tie against Dunecht the previous week. Nick Blyth , Rory Annand and Junaid were unavailable, Rizwan was promoted to the firsts.
They were replaced by three friends of Magesh’s who were in Aberdeen for the weekend, Badri, Deepak and Dradeep and Mike Hart also generously volunteered to come in to make a rare appearance.
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This week there were only two changes to the team which played two weeks ago, with Mike Phillips and Tom Murray unavailable, being replaced by Junaid and Rory Annand. It was nice to have eleven available after last week, when there were selection headaches with twelve available. Six firsts and six seconds.
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