Dollar were the visitors at the Arns on Wednesday 13th June in a 20 over contest. This was the Alloa XI’s third 20/20 match of the season and they were still looking for their first victory after closely fought games against Fauldhouse and Stenhousemuir.
Dollar won the toss and elected to bat. Alloa opened the bowling with Nick Bryant-Nichols and Ross Archibald. It wasn’t the best of starts for Alloa, the Dollar openers played their shots from the outset and quickly got runs on the board. Bryant-Nichols in particularly didn’t have a good day at the office. Greig Taylor dropped an edge off Bryant-Nichols bowling in the 3rd over, then, in his next over, the same batsmen gave  Bryant-Nichols a difficult caught and bowled chance, which he put down. In the process the bowler injured his hand and had to leave the field. Lucky white heather, Nick!  Alan Oliver came on as a substitute fielder.
Graham Oliver in his first over got the breakthrough Alloa needed, having Buchan-Smith caught behind by Taylor. Noor Jhangir replaced Archibald and bowled 3 overs, 0 wickets for 40 runs. Statistics don’t always tell the full story, in these 3 Jhangir overs, Alloa dropped four catches.
With Dollar scoring at 10 an over, Scott Malcolmson brought himself on to bowl in tandem with Matthew Booth.  Booth, the most economical of all the bowlers, bowled 4 overs for 20 runs, while the skipper picked up 2 wickets at the other end. Taylor took a stumping to augment his excellent catch behind, a fairly successful day for his first game keeping wicket in some time.
Dollar finished with 188 after the 20 overs with ex Clackmannan County player Graeme Buick ending with 26 not out.
Alloa started their reply in fine fashion with Graham Oliver driving the first ball of innings past the bowler for 4. When Oliver was dismissed, bowled for 13 in the 4TH over Alloa were on the course for an unlikely victory. Alamgir was the next batsmen in and he continued his excellent start to season. He took the attack to the bowlers scoring a quick fire 41. Even the loss of wickets at the other end couldn’t stop his onslaught. Alamgirs dismissal bowled by Ben Henderson left two new batsmen at the crease in Malcolmson and Taylor. Alloa started to gradually fall behind the run rate and victory slipped away. Once Taylor was out,  Dow and Archibald went quickly for not a lot. Campbell joined Malcolmson at the crease and scored a quick single off the second last ball of the game.  This was Campbells first  run for the club in his second senior game, hopefully there will be many more.. Malcolmson finished on 37 not out and Alloa on 155.
A  tremendous effort from a young and inexperienced Alloa team against an experienced Dollar team. This was a good game, played in excellent spirit by both sides. Credit to Dollar when after Bryant-Nichols went off injured while bowling, allowed (12th man replacement) Alan Oliver to bat for his side.