A. Owais-swing
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| Beaten by an Owais-swinger |
Showing posts with label cje needs some more sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cje needs some more sleep. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
cje's bad HX jokes: no.1 of a series
Q. What does Mr Mazher bowl?
A. Owais-swing
A. Owais-swing
Monday, 21 May 2012
Ziggy Changed My Life
A programme for 2nd teamers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00rrvv9/Your_World_Ziggy_Changed_My_Life/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00rrvv9/Your_World_Ziggy_Changed_My_Life/
Friday, 23 March 2012
Cross Nets
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| Holy Cross!!! |
And with that subtle prompt, I would like to remind everyone that tomorrow is the final pre-season indoor net session.
Usual time, usual place.
At such an esteemed club as ourselves, every opportunity must be grabbed to attend nets as you never know when the next one might be. And although numbers have been almost acceptable so far, let's forego the temptations of Chelsea v Spurs (Sky Plus it) or shopping with the wife (tell where to stick it) and engage in some of the rusty hacking and blended frogging that passes for our practice.
Oh aye, one last thing, if anyone see's a Smith, let them know about nets too...
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Cross Stay Active
Activcity Trophy-at Meggetland (7th July).
Boroughmuir 124-7 (20 overs)
M. Sachdeva 45, S. Ahmed 21, Ashish 20*
Bonfield 4/0/20/1
Lynch 4/0/19/1
Russell 4/0/23/0
Ellis 4/0/29/2
C. A. Smith 4/0/24/2
Holy Cross 125-6 (17.3 overs)
S. Pickering 41, C. Ellis 18, V. Gaware 17.
A. Talreja 3/16
A steady enough performance but we perhaps ought to have won more more comfortably against an under-strength Boroughmuir side. We were slighty sloppy in the field and the bowling was ok/god rather than outstanding.
Anyway 124 was not a big score given the outfield-though the pitch was tricky: Talreja hitting the ridge at the 'Slateford end' quite regularly.
After a strong start (led by Spick) a mid-innings wobble gave Boroughmuir hope. Some sensible batting (assisted by some looser back-up bowling) took us past the B'Muir score.
elsewhere, Coco's midweekers were apparently 'mashed by OCCC with overs & wickets to spare at Arbo.
Boroughmuir 124-7 (20 overs)
M. Sachdeva 45, S. Ahmed 21, Ashish 20*
Bonfield 4/0/20/1
Lynch 4/0/19/1
Russell 4/0/23/0
Ellis 4/0/29/2
C. A. Smith 4/0/24/2
Holy Cross 125-6 (17.3 overs)
S. Pickering 41, C. Ellis 18, V. Gaware 17.
A. Talreja 3/16
A steady enough performance but we perhaps ought to have won more more comfortably against an under-strength Boroughmuir side. We were slighty sloppy in the field and the bowling was ok/god rather than outstanding.
Anyway 124 was not a big score given the outfield-though the pitch was tricky: Talreja hitting the ridge at the 'Slateford end' quite regularly.
After a strong start (led by Spick) a mid-innings wobble gave Boroughmuir hope. Some sensible batting (assisted by some looser back-up bowling) took us past the B'Muir score.
elsewhere, Coco's midweekers were apparently 'mashed by OCCC with overs & wickets to spare at Arbo.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Crosstastic Saturday but don't celebrate too much as we've got a cup game on Sunday!
Div 1
At Town Park.
Glenrothes 223/5
C. Greaves 98*, F. Khan 50, G. Hopcroft 35, I. Dale 21
R. Worsnop 2/25, C. Ellis 2/13
Holy Cross 225/2
C. Ellis 107*, C. A. Smith 80*
F. Khan 2/45
Bimbo has been muttering about the lack of match reports....and has now decided that no one else was going to do it:
'At surely a very, very windy Hippo Park [yeah but it was a mere zephyr compared to the wind at Arbo on Sunday] the skipper chose to bowl first. Robin got the short straw and bowled uphill into the wind and completed his 10 overs with customary skill.
On a day where is was almost impossible to bowl with any fluency the standout was Charlie completing his 10 overs for a mere 13 runs and 2 wickets.
Glen's managed to capitalise on some wayward bowling with Farooq in particular finding the boundary with regular aplomb (50 off very few). Glen's OA opener carried his bat for 98* and they put on a very respectable 233.
I think it's safe to say that in the conditions this was a tough total to be looking at, your author had cheekily commented earlier in the day it was about time our batsman won us a game and lo it came to pass.
With a rain interruption KF and Spickers got us off to a good start with quick runs, both falling quite quickly and bringing first CJE and then CA to the crease.
In a display of consummate swordsmanship CJE played his way to an unbeaten 107 and CA 82 not out, both knocks were a pleasure to watch and well worth the late arrival back home.
Club historians have been poring through the record books all weekend and early indications suggest this partnership of 193 could be an all wicket record beating a 174 made in 1978. More details to follow....
Coupled with today's scores it looks like and excellent weekend for Charlie, Calum and the Cross as a whole, 4 wins: Crossgasmic'.
wins too by the 2nds
and 3rds (just!):
Div 5
Edinburgh Accies 2nd XI 107 (Samuel 3-20, Bates 2-12) : Holy Cross 2nds 109-5 (Bates 36)
Admin adds - A very good team performance against the table-topping Accies. Some good bowling and remarkably, given some of our earlier efforts, excellent fielding: three run-outs and three good catches. Andy Quinn was to the fore in the field, but perhaps the key moment was Norrie holding on to a rocket from the dangerous Aussie opener. At 72-2 we were cruising but three quick wickets gave Accies a sniff, before some composed and positive batting by the skipper and Nawaz saw us home, with Nawaz finishing the game in style with a pulled four and a line-driven six off successive balls.
Div 8
Holy Cross 3rd XI 186-4 (Nevin 50+, Butt 70+); Dunfermline 3rd XI 180 all out with 3 balls to go. (Wilkinson & Lucas scored well - a 50 and 30 I believe). HX3 beat Dunfermline 3 by 6 runs
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At Town Park.
Glenrothes 223/5
C. Greaves 98*, F. Khan 50, G. Hopcroft 35, I. Dale 21
R. Worsnop 2/25, C. Ellis 2/13
Holy Cross 225/2
C. Ellis 107*, C. A. Smith 80*
F. Khan 2/45
Bimbo has been muttering about the lack of match reports....and has now decided that no one else was going to do it:
'At surely a very, very windy Hippo Park [yeah but it was a mere zephyr compared to the wind at Arbo on Sunday] the skipper chose to bowl first. Robin got the short straw and bowled uphill into the wind and completed his 10 overs with customary skill.
On a day where is was almost impossible to bowl with any fluency the standout was Charlie completing his 10 overs for a mere 13 runs and 2 wickets.
Glen's managed to capitalise on some wayward bowling with Farooq in particular finding the boundary with regular aplomb (50 off very few). Glen's OA opener carried his bat for 98* and they put on a very respectable 233.
I think it's safe to say that in the conditions this was a tough total to be looking at, your author had cheekily commented earlier in the day it was about time our batsman won us a game and lo it came to pass.
With a rain interruption KF and Spickers got us off to a good start with quick runs, both falling quite quickly and bringing first CJE and then CA to the crease.
In a display of consummate swordsmanship CJE played his way to an unbeaten 107 and CA 82 not out, both knocks were a pleasure to watch and well worth the late arrival back home.
Club historians have been poring through the record books all weekend and early indications suggest this partnership of 193 could be an all wicket record beating a 174 made in 1978. More details to follow....
Coupled with today's scores it looks like and excellent weekend for Charlie, Calum and the Cross as a whole, 4 wins: Crossgasmic'.
wins too by the 2nds
and 3rds (just!):
Div 5
Edinburgh Accies 2nd XI 107 (Samuel 3-20, Bates 2-12) : Holy Cross 2nds 109-5 (Bates 36)
Admin adds - A very good team performance against the table-topping Accies. Some good bowling and remarkably, given some of our earlier efforts, excellent fielding: three run-outs and three good catches. Andy Quinn was to the fore in the field, but perhaps the key moment was Norrie holding on to a rocket from the dangerous Aussie opener. At 72-2 we were cruising but three quick wickets gave Accies a sniff, before some composed and positive batting by the skipper and Nawaz saw us home, with Nawaz finishing the game in style with a pulled four and a line-driven six off successive balls.
Div 8
Holy Cross 3rd XI 186-4 (Nevin 50+, Butt 70+); Dunfermline 3rd XI 180 all out with 3 balls to go. (Wilkinson & Lucas scored well - a 50 and 30 I believe). HX3 beat Dunfermline 3 by 6 runs
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Punctual Cross (!!) lift the gloom at Arbo
Parks Trophy 1st Round.
At Arboretum.
APNA 86ao (19.2overs)
Hamid 28.
Bainbridge 4, o, 17, 1
Bonfield 4, 0, 18, 1
Ellis 3.2, 0, 19, 3
Russell 4, 0, 22, 3
Lynch 4, 2, 7, 1
Holy Cross 92/4 (12.4)
S. Pickering 34*
K. Fraser 18
N. Webb 15 *
Mr Extras 26!
Umair 4, 1, 14, 3
A few aspects of the match worth remarking on:
* HX won a Twenty:20 match versus a decent side!!-something that happens about as often as Volcanic dust disrupts air flight in the UK.
* HX's catching (and calling for catches) was notably good.
* For once we took the 1st chance offered by their best bat (Zahid Ali).
* Dougie took 3 wickets in 4 balls in his final over.
* Pat was too quick for them.
* Nawaz played for the opposition but only made 5.
* KF and Spick got us off to a flier (44 off 4) that pretty much assured victory-despite a middle order wobble against a fine spell from Umair.
* cje was dismissed by one of the balls of the decade.
* Norrie finished off the game with 2 6's.
But most remarkably:
*HX had 10 players (plus 2 subs -C. McGill and M.Baker) at the ground and ready at 5.50...when the opposition only had 1....
Cheers to our scorers/ supporter/ helpers:
C.McGill, M.Baker, A. Quinn.
At Arboretum.
APNA 86ao (19.2overs)
Hamid 28.
Bainbridge 4, o, 17, 1
Bonfield 4, 0, 18, 1
Ellis 3.2, 0, 19, 3
Russell 4, 0, 22, 3
Lynch 4, 2, 7, 1
Holy Cross 92/4 (12.4)
S. Pickering 34*
K. Fraser 18
N. Webb 15 *
Mr Extras 26!
Umair 4, 1, 14, 3
A few aspects of the match worth remarking on:
* HX won a Twenty:20 match versus a decent side!!-something that happens about as often as Volcanic dust disrupts air flight in the UK.
* HX's catching (and calling for catches) was notably good.
* For once we took the 1st chance offered by their best bat (Zahid Ali).
* Dougie took 3 wickets in 4 balls in his final over.
* Pat was too quick for them.
* Nawaz played for the opposition but only made 5.
* KF and Spick got us off to a flier (44 off 4) that pretty much assured victory-despite a middle order wobble against a fine spell from Umair.
* cje was dismissed by one of the balls of the decade.
* Norrie finished off the game with 2 6's.
But most remarkably:
*HX had 10 players (plus 2 subs -C. McGill and M.Baker) at the ground and ready at 5.50...when the opposition only had 1....
Cheers to our scorers/ supporter/ helpers:
C.McGill, M.Baker, A. Quinn.
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Scottish Cup Draw-home tie for HX.
http://www.cricketscotland.com/node/21950
Is this Holy Cross' first ever appearance in the Scottish Cup? (or like the European Cup-Champions League change, has the 'expansion' of the event diluted the competition in some way so that though it is still called the Scottish Cup it is no longer 'the Scottish Cup'? ... er, hopefully that makes sense)..
Is this Holy Cross' first ever appearance in the Scottish Cup? (or like the European Cup-Champions League change, has the 'expansion' of the event diluted the competition in some way so that though it is still called the Scottish Cup it is no longer 'the Scottish Cup'? ... er, hopefully that makes sense)..
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