Indoor cricket.

Holy Cross have entered the inaugural ‘LiveSportOn.TV ESCA Indoor 6's’.

For some, the words cricket, indoor & league may summon up memories of this  (surely-alongside The Ascent of Man, The Singing Detective and Threads- the crowing glory of British television), in fact this competition involves something akin to cricket...

Now we just need a team…

Gary T and Cje play a proper athletic indoor sport but since the rest of you spending the winter evenings slumped in front of the XFactor, you could perhaps do with some exercise.

Can anyone interested please leave a comment to that effect-or email Jon.

We need a volunteer to organize the side…go ahead-seize the opportunity! …if might influence the selection committee currently engaged in the task of nailing down a captain for the 1sts for next season.

Details of the competition:

‘The competition will take the same format as the cricket Scotland tournament with 4 groups containing 3 teams in each.  The 3 teams in each group will attend on the same night and play round robin, each team will take part in 2 nights thus getting gets 4 games in total throughout the tournament.  Each of the 4 group winners would then attend the finals night for 2 Semi-Finals and a Final being held.

This will be run every Friday night from 20th January to 16th March 2012 at Liberton High School, the 1st game on each evening will start at 6.30pm prompt’. 

teams entered are:

Glenrothes CC

Edinburgh Schools Academy

Penicuik

Edinburgh South

Musselburgh

Holy Cross

Boroughmuir

Tranent

Marchmont

Edinburgh Accies

Fauldhouse

Morton

Top Allrounder Announces Retirement

The cricketing world was today stunned by the news that one of the leading allrounders of his era age was to retire.

His press release stated: 'I today regretfully announce my retirement from all international cricket with immediate effect. Having been told that my body would no longer stand up to the rigours of Test and ODI cricket, I had no alternative but to retire. This will mean that I will not now be able to honour my IPL contract - but will instead spend my winter taking part in the lucrative respected HCACCWSGL'

Holy Cross Reading Group - February update

 

Just to say that our current book: Gideon Haigh's Many a Slip: A Diary of a Club Cricket Season is back in my possession-please tell me if you want to borrow it.

Given that the HCACCWSGL is in full swing, HX golfers might also consider looking at Andrew Greig's (excellent) Preferred Lies which is currently being read by Smudger and Ellis Snr.