Cricket Poloc aim to build on early victories after suffering stop-start opening to the season

Blame the foul weather. But the SNCL Championship table has taken on an incongruously disjointed, uneven look as we enter June and round six of the fixture card. Three sides, Kelburne, Penicuik and SMRH have played five matches hitherto, whilst the only two teams with 100 per cent records still intact, Weirs and Poloc, have completed just one and two matches respectively. Little wonder genuine form horses are yet to emerge.

Poloc, still top by virtue of their two wins, had a free Saturday last week - courtesy of Edinburgh CC's expulsion from the league - but enjoyed Scottish Cup success on Sunday in a T20 shoot-out at the Prestwick Oval. The Shawholm side make three changes from Sunday for the visit of Falkland, Hassan Akram, James Blackburn and Nicky Lafferty, after five wickets at Prestwick, coming in for Alex Scott, Russell Lauder and the unavailable Scott Millen. The Fifers, who recall in-form George Gallacher for Tam Brunton, travel in good heart after last week's narrow home loss to East Kilbride, greatly boosted by South African overseas amateur Brent Hall's magnificent 96, and still holding their key trump card in Sri Lankan pro Harsha Cooray, whose 73 accounted for Fauldhouse in Sunday's Scottish Cup tie at Scroggie. Stuart Campbell remains behind the stumps.

Stenhousemuir, inspired by that fine away win at Edinburgh Accies, welcome mercurial SMRH to The Tryst, again looking to further sterling performances from pro Rushdi Jappie and overseas amateur Ranwill Claassen, to complement Ian McDonald, Ben Arkley and Ian Philip, who played for Scotland in the nineties and turned back the clock with a crucial, well-crafted 32.

"We're hoping last week's Dumfries disaster was a bit of a freak result, and I'm sure we can bat a lot better this weekend," said SMRH skipper Greg Bissett, who recalls Robin Crouch and Matt Coyle for Ed Pickmere and TJ Beattie.

Dumfries, destroyers of SMRH, 41 all out, before, bizarrely, suffering the same sub-50 fate just 24 hours later against Renfrew in the Scottish Cup, will be firm favourites when they travel to Kirkhill to face belligerent Ryan Nurse but otherwise toiling Penicuik.

"This is our first league match at Penicuik since 1995,' said Nunholm stalwart Davie Davidson, "and, remarkably, Jimmy Patterson is the only man in our team to last that 16-year hiatus.'

East Kilbride, emboldened by three wins and a fine, match-winning 73 at Scroggie by star all-rounder Shiraz Khalid, confidently welcome to Torrance House Stuart Kennedy's transitional Ferguslie side still missing pro Prav Mullick, back home in India tending his seriously ill mother, but much encouraged by the performances of several youngsters in last week's cup successes against Glasgow Accies and St Boswell's.

Elsewhere, Freuchie seek revenge for their 4-1 Scottish Cup bowl-out defeat when they return to Whitehaugh and upbeat Kelburne.Weirs may find visiting Renfrew a test too far, whilst Kruger van Wyk and unchanged West Lothian confidently host enigmatic Edinburgh Accies, who welcome back Geraint Jones and Alastair Carmichael for Andy Moffat and Harry Paton.