Turriff played away on Saturday at the controversial Sheddocksley ground in Aberdeen, losing to Siyapa who secured their promotion to grade 3 as a result. David Laing captained a depleted side of 9 men, and opted to bat when he won the toss. Hoping to get the Turriff innings off to a good start, David Chalmers and Steven Lings opened up, looking to play cautiously and make the most of all the overs. Like Turriff, Siyapa had also had a fortnight off and new ball bowlers Nisar and Shahid started with a few looseners before settling into a rhythm and bowling an attacking line targeting the stumps just full of a good length. Turriff rotated the strike a little until after a close lbw shout in the fifth over, Lings adopted a policy of stonewalling Nisar, taking a big stride forward and showing the full face of the bat. This resulted in two maidens for Nisar, but it was Shahid who struck first in the 8th over, beating left-hander Chalmers with a good delivery from around the wicket to bowl him for 3.
This brought Neil Smith to the crease, who watched from the non-strikers end as Nisar got fed up of bowling dot balls and presented Lings with first an off-break, and then a leg-break which he worked fine on the leg side for an easy single. Pleased with the way his wrist spinner had come out, Nisar then gave Smith a similar delivery, which was mis-timed to mid-on to bring the score to 14-2. Dodd Duncan came to the crease and looked in good touch, striking a quickfire 9 before he was beaten by the tricky Sheddocksley park pitch by one that stayed low to become Nisar's second victim, leaving Turriff on 18-3. David Laing joined Lings in the middle and Siyapa made a double bowling change. Taveer Khan, a talented wrist spinner with a genuine 'wrongun', struggled at firs to bowl a full enough length as Lings cashed in with a boundry behind square leg. He quickly changed to around the wicket and immediately found the right nagging length slow amateur spin bowlers need to hit, pitching the ball just a foot or two beyond then reach of the batsman taking his biggest stride forward.
Hasnan, a medium pacer, found his rhythm immediately at the other end and got himself the wicket of Laing, to reduce Turriff to 31-4. The next over Lings blunded trying to smother a hard spun leg break, spooning a catch to the short exta cover fielder for 11, Turriff were 37-5. Fraser Smart, William Wechsler, Byron Woolley and Noah Balment put up some late resistance, before Turra were dismiseed for just 45 runs. Wechsler finished the not out batsman with two runs. There was little hope for Turra with only seven fielders against the talented Siyapa batting line up. Lings fluked the wicket of opener Khassam, who rather comically hit his own stumps sweeping a wide attempted slower off-break. The batsman struck the ball the rope, but the momentum of his shot led to him letting go of his bat with one hand, and following through the stroke into his stumps. Fazal, and his skipper Abdullah Khan hit the remaing runs off with ease on their home ground, both hitting maximums as they slogged their way to a win within 7 overs. Turriff play their last game of the season against Portcullis at Duthie Park, Aberdeen on 29th August.
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