The sun made a welcome return for the first home match for the 1s since week 9 of the season. The visitors were Broomhall who have struggled this season, their woes were exacerbated in the match when their opening bowler and Captain strained his side in his 4th over and one of their other main players injured his forearm also while bowling.
Broomhall won the toss (no surprise there, Bobby has won the toss once this season and then made the wrong decision!) and put Livi into bat. Andrew and Bobby got us off to a solid start with Richard turning up to watch Andrew shortly after Andrew was smartly caught at mid off, the pair had put on 40ish. Bobby followed soon after for 26. Soby and Jazim came together and quickly started to take the Broomhall bowling apart, Jazim was the first to 50 falling soon after whilst Soby continued late into the innings for his top score for the club of 86.
Connor came in at 5 and didn't know what to do with the extremely slow off spin finally getting a top edge to the keeper to put him out of his misery. Simon (18) and debutant Steven Connell (14*) continued to keep the pressure on and Livi finished with an impressive 245-7 in their 45 overs.
In reply Ahmed and Steven soon had Broomhall under pressure with Ahmed taking 2 wickets (one with the slowest ball imaginable) and Steven only conceding 4 runs in his 4 overs. It wasn't long before the spinners were in full flow and the remaining wickets fell to them with Alan (4-10) and Shrey (3-8) soon rattling through them so they were dismissed for 41.
Livin winning by the comprehensive margin of 204 runs.
The match was played in an excellent spirit even though it was one sided with Broomhall being a real pleasure to play against.
  Livingston | 1st XI | v |   | Broomhall | Date: | 2015-08-15 |
Type of Match | League Division 2 | at | Turpie & Co Sports Ground |
Livingston | 245 for 7 (45 overs) | Broomhall | 41 all out (25.2 overs) |
Result: | Livingston won by 204 runs |
    | Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Runs | 4s | 6s | 1 | R Bowering | bowled | T Lucas | 26 |   |   | 2 | A Wilcock | ct L James | T Lucas | 17 |   |   | 3 | S Asghar | bowled | N Miller | 86 |   |   | 4 | J Sohail | ct L James | Mi Warren | 54 |   |   | 5 | C Clark | ct G Mullen | R Overton | 0 |   |   | 6 | S Lancaster | ct & bowled | L James | 18 |   |   | 7 | S Connell | not out |   | 14 |   |   | 8 | J Wilson | bowled | T Lucas | 4 |   |   | 9 | AH Ali | not out |   | 0 |   |   | 10 | S Awasthi | dnb |   |   |   |   | 11 | A McDonald | dnb |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Extras | 26 |   |   | Total |   |   | 245 for 7 |
    | Bowler | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wds | NBs | Avg | Econ |   | 1 | C Hoefling | 4.0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ~ | 1.50 |   | 2 | N Miller | 9.0 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36.00 | 4.00 |   | 3 | T Lucas | 9.0 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17.33 | 5.78 |   | 4 | J Day | 2.0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ~ | 4.00 |   | 5 | C Stoddart | 4.0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ~ | 5.50 |   | 6 | R Overton | 7.0 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51.00 | 7.29 |   | 7 | Mi Warren | 7.0 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36.00 | 5.14 |   | 8 | L James | 3.0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21.00 | 7.00 |   |
    | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |   | Score |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Bat Out |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
    | Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Runs | 4s | 6s | 1 | N Miller | bowled | AH Ali | 2 |   |   | 2 | R Overton | bowled | A McDonald | 10 |   |   | 3 | Mi Warren | bowled | AH Ali | 0 |   |   | 4 | L James | bowled | S Awasthi | 4 |   |   | 5 | T Lucas | ct A Wilcock | A McDonald | 3 |   |   | 6 | J Day | bowled | A McDonald | 0 |   |   | 7 | C Stoddart | ct AH Ali | S Awasthi | 8 |   |   | 8 | G Mullen | bowled | A McDonald | 0 |   |   | 9 | M Goodchild | ct AH Ali | S Awasthi | 5 |   |   | 10 | C Hoefling | not out |   | 4 |   |   |   |   |   | Extras | 5 |   |   | Total |   |   | 41 all out |
    | Bowler | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wds | NBs | Avg | Econ |   | 1 | AH Ali | 5.0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7.00 | 2.80 |   | 2 | S Connell | 4.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ~ | 1.00 |   | 3 | S Awasthi | 5.2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2.67 | 1.50 |   | 4 | A McDonald | 7.0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2.50 | 1.43 |   | 5 | J Wilson | 4.0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ~ | 0.50 |   |
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