The week’s indoor cricket matches saw wins for The Mighty Six, Bonxies and the Stingrays. The change of players in each team for the second half of the indoor season was meant to make for very close games but Lerwick have struggled to get their team to fire and the Bonxies have managed to win all their games to date with comparative ease.

Bonxies stretched their lead in the indoor cricket league to eight points with a narrow win over Warriors while Stingrays beat Mighty Six.

This week saw the indoor cricket knockout being played to its conclusion. The first semi-final saw the Renegades take on the losing finalist of last year, Southend.The second semi-final saw Lerwick B take on last year’s winners Bressay Light.

This past Sunday and Monday saw glorious sunshine and 22 men clad in white playing four games of cricket at north Clickimin.

Some Scottish members of parlia­ment think that there is too much media coverage of cricket at the moment.

The Bressay Light made it a league and cup double when they won the indoor cricket knockout competition at the weekend, defeating Lerwick B in the semi-final and Big Shots in the final.

Knockout Cup

Southend 42 all out
Big Shots 43 for no wicket

Southend batted first and were soon in trouble,…

A rare defeat for Bressay Light in the weekend’s indoor cricket matches, going down to Southend, was not enough to stop the all-conquering side clinching another title. The action also saw two wins for Big Shots and a victory for Thunderbirds.

Bressay Light 62 all out
Southend 63 for 3

ressay Light batted first…

A rare defeat for Bressay Light in the weekend’s indoor cricket matches, going down to Southend, was not enough to stop the all-conquering side clinching another title. The action also saw two wins for Big Shots and a victory for Thunderbirds.

Bressay Light 62 all out
Southend 63 for 3

Bressay Light batted first and…

Lerwick B won the battle of the town cricket sides, defeating Lerwick A with Dave Holliday unbeaten on 44, while Southend and Bressay Light also won their matches.

Big Shots 80 for 3
Bressay Light 81 for no wicket

Big Shots batted first and put on a steady opening partnership until Guy Nightingale was…

It was not a good week for Brae in the indoor cricket league, who only managed to muster three players and lost both matches to Thunderbirds and Southend. Meanwhile, Bressay Light racked up an impressive tally against Lerwick B who were then bowled out well short of the target.

Bressay Light 125 for 1
Lerwick…

A former Lerwick optician is suing his estranged wife and erstwhile business partner for more than £800,000, claiming that her actions after they went their separate ways six years ago effectively left him out of work.

New SIC chief executive Alistair Buchan came face to face with all councillors this week for the first time since taking up the post for what he described as “very positive” initial discussions about how to react to major criticisms in the Accounts Commission’s recent report on the local authority.

Multiple Grammy winner Steve Earle, the outspoken singer-song­writer responsible for a host of classic Americana songs including Copperhead Road, Guitar Town and Galway Girl, will be stopping off in Lerwick next Thursday for a re-arranged show at Clickimin.