East Kilbride faced up against travelling Helensburgh on Saturday in a high scoring affair.

East Kilbride won the toss and decided to have a bat. Imran Mughal is human after all falling in the first over of the game for 0 his opening partner Adil Hussain shortly after for just 9. Captain Moneeb Iqbal and Qasim Sheikh steadied things and looked to get the runs moving again. But it was a day for the skipper to remember, powerfully hitting to all parts of the ground, he scored a scintillating 180. It was brilliant for all to watch. A few partnerships to add on and EK made it to 291, still a few short of what could have been.

Helensburgh started brightly and looked to take the game as deep as possible. The 2 overseas players dug in and looked in decent nick. The game poised in the balance at the first of 2 drinks breaks, EK knew only a couple of wickets away from securing there 7th straight victory. Captain Iqbal again making the vital breakthrough finishing with figures of 3 for 44, an all round excellent day for the skipper. Josh Johnston also bagging himself another 3 wickets and completing another win for EK. Good fight shown from East Kilbride to bring it back into their hands of what could have been so much closer.