Gopal Lalchandani and Ryan Eagleson bowl Scorpions to Sunday double

Gopal Lalchandani and Ryan Eagleson claimed five wickets each as Scorpions scored a come-from-behind victory over Templars at Hong Kong Cricket Club to claim the Sunday League and Cup double for 2005-06.

Wet weather played its part in the Sunday Cup Final with Templars winning the toss and electing to bowl. An inspired spell of bowling from Khuram Shahzad left the Scorpions batting line-iup in tatters as they slumped to 5-26. But some valuable middle order knocks from Toby Brown, Nick Gavin-Brown and Simon Laveau lifted them to a total of 144 from 41.4 overs. Shahzad finished with 4-27 from his nine overs.

Heavy rain during the lunch break saw a delay to the resumption and a revised total for Templars to chase. A target of 97 from 30 overs was later reduced to 84 from 26 overs after a second interruption.

Ryan Eagleson and Gopal Lalchandani bowled well in tandem - with Lalchandani's slow off-breaks proving the ideal foil to Eagleson's pace attack. Each claimed five wickets as Templars were routed for 82 in the 21st over for Scorpions to claim a famous vcitory. Jamie Atkinson and TR Kalyanaraman were the only Templars batsmen to reach double figures as Eagleson finished with 5-30 while sexagenarian Lalchandani claimed 5-27.

Rain on Saturday saw a number of matches washed out whilst others were played in an abbreviated format.

All Saturday Cup matches were abandoned and these will be be replayed at later dates to be advised.

Two Saturday Plate matches were played at Po Kong Village Road, though each was restricted to a twenty overs per side affair.

At a sodden PKVR1, Nomads beat Crusaders by 80 runs with Travis Smithson hitting a quickfire century for Nomads and Anthony Barnet claiming a hat-trick for Crusaders.

Meanwhile Kai Tak beat SubCont by 12 runs at PKVR2. Kai Tak scored 228-2 from their 20 overs with Malcolm Brown smacking an unbeaten 137 and Steven Campbell 60. In reply SubCont were restricted to 216-6 with Ankur Sharma hitting 89 and Rahul Sambhus 61.

Other matches were abandoned.

In the final match of the Women's League, LSW beat HKCC Cavaliers by 5 wickets. HKCC Cavaliers could only manage a total of 67 as Irosha and Chaudi claimed three wickets each. The LSW women eased to victory for the loss of five wickets.