By Scott Malcolmson

Clackmannan travelled to Edinburgh to face Morton without regulars Dan Smith, Auranzeb Alamgir, Muktar Ahmed and Nick Bryant-Nichols. After winning the coin toss Clackmannan elected to bowl on a very green wicket.
Alison Ramsay and Blair Campbell opened the bowling for Clackmannan. Alison struck early taking the first wicket of the day after a fine reactive catch by James Cox at first slip. In a fine opening spell of bowling Alison would take another two wickets both well caught by Ally Band at mid on.
Blair Campbell not to be outdone by his opening partner should have had his first wicket when the batsmen looped the ball up to Rich Passe at square leg. Unfortunately he dropped the catch however amongst the confusion both batsmen ended up at the same end allowing Passe to flick the ball to Simon McDowell for a run out. Campbell didn’t have to wait long for a wicket after a nice catch by wicketkeeper McDowell.
With Alison having bowled 6 overs and getting 3 wickets for 9 runs she declined a seventh over allowing her brother Neil a chance to bowl. Neil struck in his 2nd over after Scott Malcolmson took his first catch of the season at cover. With Neil’s next ball the new batsmen again struck the ball in the air to cover. This time Malcolmson had to make up the ground to take a spectacular one handed catch. Neil now on a hat-trick next ball had the batsmen playing and missing but the ball missed the stumps. Neil struck for his 3rd wicket in his next over.
Ally Band replaced Campbell and he joined the party bowling the batsmen for his first wicket in four games. Taylor was then given the nod to replace Band but with Morton struggling 9 wickets down and 40 on the board Neil Ramsay wrapped up the innings by taking the last wicket in the next over denying Greig Taylor his first bowl of the season.
Having skittled out Morton for 40,  Clackmannan set about the small chase with batsmen Greig Taylor and Noor Jhangir opening the batting. At this point Nick Bryant-Nichols turned up with his two strong barmy army and Taylor buoyed by the “Who are you” chants led the chase playing some lovely front foot drives.
With boundaries hard to come by due to some long grass in the outfield, Clackmannan chipped away at the score until Jhangir had seen enough and in the 9th over hit the bowler for 6 over square leg in between two fours through mid on. This brought Clackmannan to 40 after 9 overs and in the tenth over Taylor scored the winning run off the 3rd ball.
This was a comprehensive victory for Clackmannan who excelled in all departments of the game especially in the fielding which was poor the previous week. Next week Clackmannan make the long trip to third placed Dunbar for a top of the table clash.