Callum Henry puts Glasgow Accies to the sword again

Greenock 1st XI v Glasgow Accies
Western Premiership Two
Saturday 12th July 2025

Glasgow Accies 204   Z Ashraf 45, ZM Khan 35, K Sindhwani 33; F Dinarkheil 4 for 48, Mu Ahmadzai 3 for 31
Greenock 1st XI 207 for 4   CJ Henry 111*, SS Sanghera 31*

Greenock 1st XI (25 pts) defeated Glasgow Accies (1 pt) by 6 wickets

Scorecard

The 1st XI gained a very valuable win over Glasgow Accies at Glenpark on Saturday afternoon in conditions more akin to the Caribbean with blue skies, sunshine and temperatures approaching 30 degrees. The previous Saturday's cricket had been washed out and temperatures barely got into double figures. A week is a long time in cricket in the west of Scotland.

For the second time this season against Accies, Callum Henry was the 'man of the match'. In May, at New Anniesland, he scored 108 not out and on Saturday he surpassed that score with 111 not out.

The match began with Accies being inserted and the home attack achieved an early wicket when opening bat David Holloway had his stumps knocked back by Fahim Dinarkheil with just the fourth ball of the innings.

Dinarkheil collected a second wicket mid-way through the ninth over when his pace beat Ramsay Brown and the number three batsman was bowled for 11 with the score on 33.

Four overs later, with Chirag Pandher just introduced into the bowling attack, the team made an important third wicket breakthrough. Opening bat Kapil Sindhwani seemed set for a big innings and had taken his own score to 33 from 42 balls, when he mis-timed his shot and chipped Pandher's delivery to Cammy Calder at short mid-wicket. 55 for 3 wickets.

Zain Ashraf and Zeeshan Khan then put on Accies' biggest partnership of the innings scoring 52 runs, before left-hander Khan tried to smash Dinarkheil to the long off boundary only to find the safe hands of Nikhil Kadyan. His innings of 35 runs included four boundaries and one six.

Ashraf became Accies' key player as the innings progressed, and he built important partnerships with Rory Paterson (40 runs) and Cameron Russell (38 runs). However, Ashraf became the eighth wicket to fall on 187 having top scored for his team with 45 runs.

Accies were all out for 204 with the second last ball of the 50 overs when Russell was caught by Aryan Sanghera for 26 off the bowling of Muhibullah Ahmadzai.

In reply, the 1st XI made a good start with openers Callum Henry and Aryan Sanghera putting on 67 runs before Sanghera was bowled by Khan for 26.

By the end of the 22nd over, the score had doubled to 133 but in the process the team had lost the wickets of Kadyan, Calder and Pandher. But those wickets were to be the last that would fall.

Sam Sanghera joined Callum Henry out in the middle with the Australian in supreme form with the bat and approaching his third century of the season. That landmark was duly reached off the last ball of the 27th over when Henry picked up two runs.

The fifth wicket pairing then quite quickly reached the winning target, with Sanghera especially in swashbuckling batting form. The pair put on 74 runs in 8.1 overs with Sanghera unbeaten on 31 with 7 boundaries to his name and Henry not out 111. The Aussie amateur's innings included 15 boundaries and 2 sixes.

This win moves Greenock up into fifth position in the Western Premiership Two league table.