The second fixture in the Aberdeenshire Cricket Association Grades week of Festival games was played at Mannofield in glorious sunshine. Aberdeenshire with a match winning partnership of 136 for the 3rd wicket between skipper N. MacRae and G. Tomlinson set the Grades Select side a target of 229 to win off their 40 overs. Unfortunately the chase was never really on after the Grades Select side lost 3 early wickets finally losing by 54 runs and that was despite a half century from R. Dhiman for the Grades Select side.

Aberdeenshire 228-6 (N MacRae 76, G Tomlinson 69; F Awan 3-48, C Forbes 2-30).

Grades Select 174 (R Dhiman 50, N Mirza 33; P West 3-32, H Niven 3-37).