The island team's landmark feat, achieved in the space of just 125 minutes, was made all the more remarkable in light of the fact that they travelled to Glasgow with only nine players, missing key men Harding, Guy Crichton, South, Reid senior and j
unior, plus the rest of the 18 man registered pool.
Windyedge lost the toss and Bute captain Mark Crichton decided to put them in to bat, little knowing the spectacular success that was about to follow.
He and Lintermans opened the bowling, and wickets began to tumble from the moment Windyedge lost their first man with only three runs on the board.
Surprisingly, it was not the captain who gained the wickets with his pace. Instead, it was the tall man from Belgium who wrought havoc, backed up by good catches from Craig Murray and two from Gary Dickenson.
Windyedge's innings collapsed to 24 all out in just 20.4 overs, Lintermans returning the remarkable figures of eight wickets, five maidens and only ten runs conceded in his ten overs. Crichton took the last wicket, both players having bowled unchanged.
With rain always a threat, Bute's openers David Daniels and Pete Manvell polished off the runs required smartly to give Bute their greatest ever win since beating Ardrossan by the same margin in May 1991 — although then they had to chase the slightly higher target of 37 runs.
Lintermans' bowling tally of eight wickets for ten runs, meanwhile, beat the long-held club record of seven for 29, taken by Iain Downie against Dunlop in a Strathclyde League fixture almost eleven years to the day.
It was fitting that Iain was in Saturday's team to see big Franky's remarkable performance.
This was Bute's sixth win on the trot, and consolidates their position at the top of the table — and with only five fixtures to go, it is all hands on deck to gain promotion in the team's first season in the Western District Cricket Union's fifth division.
The first of these matches takes place this Saturday, July 31, at Auldhouse against a Bees team who defeated an under-strength Bute in Rothesay on May 29 — so revenge will be on the minds of the Bute players who travel to Glasgow's south side.
