Worth Waiting 5 Weeks For?

A panel of independent judges have marked yesterday's HX 1st XI's performance vs Carlton 2's :

Bowling: 5
Batting: 3
Fielding: 1

Well played Carlton but they should have been tested rather more...

Cross Crushed by Carlton, 2nds lose at soggy Arbo but 3's win (!!!)

Saturday Results Digest:

1sts
Carlton 2s 255 for 5 (B Lockie 106, R Bhopal 55*)
beat Holy Cross CC 87 all out (M Habib 4 for 11, J Walker 3 for 17)

An understrength 1st XI were well beaten by a strong Carlton side.

2nds:

Div 5 HX2 111 : Falkland 113-3

3rds

Division 8

At Campbell Park

Musselburgh 3rd IX 104-8 (all out)

lost to

Holy Cross 3rd XI 105-4

**just to set the results in some context:
of the 71 players we had registered at the start of the season, 47 were unavailable this weekend...

Winning Streak Ends as 1sts and 2nds Collapse

Two fairly dismal batting performances ended the club's run of success.

Don't have details for the 2nds but believe they made 95ao chasing just 125 to beat Falkland 2nds on a testing artificial wicket-Ziggy will provide details once he's finished his Kebab...believe the returning Andy Killey took 6 wickets.

At Arbo the 1sts were below par against some aggressive Carlton batting. A few slices of fortune went in Carlton's favour; but though we kept taking wickets we never stemmed the flow of runs. 183 was a decent score on a wicket that (having been waterlogged the day before) lacked pace and bounce but we should have at least got close. The final partnership of 39 between the two Andys showed what could have been achieved.

Carton 2nds 183ao off 41.2 overs (P. Swan 60, A. Majunder 33, F. Boyd 31; A. Millington 3/42, S.Bonfield 2/22)

Holy Cross 131 ao off 44.2 overs (A. Millington 23, C. Ellis 20; O. Ahmed 3/11, T. Clarke 3/38)

Carlton's view of proceedings here

Scotsman report here

Ludicrous weather (part 3 of a continuing series)

surely we're not considering cricket in this....





Grange Loan earlier this evening




Breaking news: 2nds match vs Largo is OFF

Also the 1st's match vs Carlton is OFF
no news yet re the thirds, though I doubt that the Meadows will be in a playable condition (unless someone's pinched a tent from a festival venue and put it over the square...)

Late Breaking News...1sts win shortened match

In a match delayed by 2 hours by a heavy rain storm at about 1pm and reduced to 35 overs per side.

Carlton 2 161ao off 34.3 overs
(T. Barratt 39, P. Swan 35; P. Kumar 3-38, S. Bonfield 2-18)

Holy Cross 162-6 off 33.3 overs
(C. A. Smith 43, C. Ellis 39)

Carlton's view of proceedings:
http://www.carltoncc.co.uk/fixtures_2009_2.htm#June14

Our 'frantic efforts' to get the pitch ready-not sure anything involving our super-slow roller can be described as 'frantic'... Anyway the rest of it is accurate...

Brief mention of the game in the Evening News Digest:
http://sport.scotsman.com/cricket/Cricket-Heriot39s-II--fall.5365557.jp

The 2nds were called off after 13 overs, while the 3rds lost by 3 wickets to Morton II after making 129.

Details to follow.....

Remember that we play in Cricket Scotland Trophy on Sunday-1pm start at Arboretum.