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28 August 1994

Now lets go for the Cup

Jubilant Ayr Cricket Club cracked open the bubbly to celebrate winning the Western Union and then vowed : We want the Scottish Cup as well next season. Skipper David Simpson's all-stars re-wrote the record books to clinch their first Western Union title since 1961.

And to complete a triumphant season, the Strathclyde League XI won their league and the 2nd XI were runners-up in their competition.

As skipper Simpson joined former Ayr stars Jimmy Allan, John Wilson, Iain Kerr, Dave Eddon and Iain Johnstone at a celebration party in the clubhouse, he said ' The Scottish Cup is the big aim for next year. We've only reached one semi-final and that was 1983 so we want to go further.

In a rain curtailed final game of the season against Clydesdale, Australian pro Marty Haywood was deprived of the chance of the 93 score he needed for a thousand Union runs.

Despite the elements Clydesdale, needing to win to secure a top five Scottish Cup place, insisted on a 100 overs game. And they struggled to 1409 with on-form Andy Baird taking 7-64.

Heavy rain and fading light restricted Ayr's reply to 86-0. The teams came off Alan Simpson had done enough to overtake Uddingston's Gordon McGurk in the runs chase for the Union's top amateur bat.

Haywood was the Union's top run scorer with 953 runs at an average of 105.8 and also the leading bowler with 44 wickets at an average of 16.68.

Alan Simpson bashed 528 runs at an average of 44 to lift the top amateur batting award

Andy Baird was top amateur bowler, taking 39 wickets at an average of 16.23, remarkable considering he only played ten matches this season.

Report taken from the Ayrshire Post 
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