The 1st XI are back in Edinburgh this week, visiting the joint league leaders, Watsonians, in what is bound to be a tough game. The day after, Glenpark is the venue for the second of the weekend's league games when they take on the National Academy. Depending on the side that the latter select, this too could be a really tough fixture. The boys will need to perform at their very best if they are to take anything out of these games.

The Glenpark XI are at home on Saturday to Victoria. As the latter are second in the table, a home win would make a huge difference to their prospects of promotion. Anything else and it will Division 3 again next year.

Or rather, the officers and crew of the cruise ship Queen Victoria will visit Glenpark on Wednesday 28th July to use the facilities for a game amongst themselves. The visit was arranged by Peter Hempsey during his recent holiday and will start at around 10.30am.

The 1st XI may be bottom of the table but they pushed the league leaders, Grange, all the way in a closely fought encounter at Raeburn Place, eventually losing by just 3 wickets. No report this week, as Mr Lepick has obviously been otherwise engaged.

The Glenpark XI recovered from last week's traumatic visit to Lanarkshire by defeating Active Life by 5 wickets and thereby preserving their slim hopes of promotion. The ever-injured, increasingly fragile, Dave Sharma reports on proceedings.

It was always expected that Carlton would have far too much strength for the 1st XI and so it transpired. The locals struggled to 124, taking almost 46 overs to reach this score, but the international pairing of Watts and Mommsen easily brushed this aside in just 21 overs. Jim Lepick paints a fair picture of the proceedings whilst Roger 'Scoop' Graham provides some pictorial evidence.

Another trip to Lanarkshire, another heavy defeat for the Glenpark XI, as Hamilton prove to be far too strong. Dave 'the Snake' Sharma was on the field and he provides the detail on another sorry display.

The forecasted rain arrived right on schedule to put a halt to Greenock's push for victory against Aberdeenshire. A promising first innings total of 235 for 8, highlighted by Willie Rowan's knock of 94, would have been a real challenge for the visitors, had the rains held off. Jim Lepick runs his eye over what action did take place.

Reports suggest Greenock's star all-rounder, Richie Berrington, is set to sign a contract with Sussex. If true, this will be a grievous loss to the Club but everyone at the Club will wish him the very best in the next stage of his cricketing career. As a centrally contracted player with Cricket Scotland, Richie's appearances for Greenock were always likely to be limited this year. Now, it appears he has played his last game for the club, for this season at least. Good luck, Richie. We wish you well.

The 1st XI fell to another defeat on Saturday but their depleted eleven put up a spirited fight, failing to reach Clydesdale's 225 for 6 by just 35 runs. Jim Lepick provides the details on the encounter.

Despite fielding a less than full-strength team, the Glenpark XI got back to winning ways as they defeated Albert Park by 7 wickets. Skipper Mark Robertson, who led from the front with an unbeaten 68 and 2 key wickets, has written his first ever report to describe the action.

The 1st XI stumbled to an eighth league defeat out of nine matches when they fell victim to Uddingston by 8 wickets. At least, this week they managed to reach three figures but that was as good as it got. The Lep's report indicates that this was a fighting perfomance on a difficult wicket.