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HOLY CROSS V BOROUGHMUIR COMPLETE
ONE OR TWO CLIPS PENDING FROM THE TRANENT GAME.

The future is finally here. In case you didn't notice the link in Charlie's comment in the previous report, herein lies surely the first ever representation of a Cross innings on a Manhattan Skyline style graph. Essential viewing!!!

Sensational Statisticals

Also essential viewing for any dedicated Crosser's are the following clips documenting the matches pretty much in their entirety.

Allowance must be made for the initial stop-start nature of the clips which are sometimes a ball or two at a time. By the end HX Productions managed to film the action an over at a time.

HX v BOROUGHMUIR
1st Innings (Boroughmuir)

2nd Innings (HX)

HX v TRANENT
1st Innings (HX)

2nd Innings (Tranent)

Holy X Xmas Drinks

Gents,

Having spent the best part of two weeks snowed in with only the internet for amusement it's certainly time to arrange some festive drinks. A few folk wll be heading to the St Vincent Stockbridge - Howe St for a few this Saturday.

Happy days!

KF on Scottish cricket (part 4 of a continuing series)

[The season may have finished but KF continues to do what he does best: smack balls over straight midwicket provide insightful commentary on the game].

For those of you who can't wait until the forthcoming Ashes commence for my insightful, innovative, thought-provoking and all round amazingly brilliant dissection of England's inevitable drubbing (the cricket media are doing the England football thing and declaring Ashes victory already, reality will bite by about lunch time on the first day of the First Test. Early prediction: panic call-up for Pietersen at 0-2), I'd like to take the opportunity of regurgitating a previous post from the soon to be if not already legendary 'KF on Scottish Cricket' series.

As I write this, I can hardly see the screen due to the sunlight beaming in through my window. The temperature outside is nearer 20 degrees, the breeze is light and, er, the cricket season has just finished.

Harking back to last December's scribble, here are some quotes.

"Come the end of August and into September, once the season has ended for most folk, its flip flop and barbecue time."

"I believe it's time to look at adjusting the season as I believe it starts and ends too early"

If cricket is played in the summer, and the season has just finished, and this is winter (humour me here please, there are no rules about internet posts having to be watertight), then I think we should begin playing Winter Cricket asap.

I'll leave it at that and will make sure I return to this subject every year at the same time. Now where did I put the suntan lotion (not in my effin cricket bag, that's for sure)?

......postcript by cje...

Lengthening the season is something I'd love to see happen - though those who share facilities with rugby/ football clubs would face difficulties.

Before Popey relates his stories of Yorshire cricket, I'll point out that the Sunday team I played for in Sheffield (Firvale CC) have their last fixture this season on Sept 19th.

From a groundsmanship point of view, one problem with playing into September would be the impact on post-season renovation of cricket squares (you need the new seed to germinate and establish itself before the temperature drops).