McGill's 70th.

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— andy graham (@crosstastic) December 11, 2014

Rare Ist Team Report: Record Breaking Performance

A number of Crossers have complained about the lack of reports on 1xst team matches.

Well, here's a full report from the match yesterday vs Glenrothes:


We got gubbed

there are many other words that would be appropriate

But at least those who took part can say they played when several club records were broken....

EC's last chance...

EC has a final chance on Saturday to notch up his maiden 1st XI league century.


Here is the Roseburn Pitch (photoed last night) on which he hopes to achieve his goal.
Chances of success??

Can EC pull on this?

Four Pacemen of the Apocalypse

Something Fishy???

With a variety of intellectual powers on show, the results of the 2nd Annual Holy Cross Quiz Night were;

1. Four Pacemen of the Apocalypse - 47pts
(Professor McGill, Doctor Bonfield & Bishop Lynch)

2. FC Clam Idea* - 40pts
(Prez, Andy G, Michael from the Rugby Club & Ross (?))

3. Simple Minds - 34.5pts
(EC, Vik, Chuckie, Doogs,)

4. Three Dogs - 28.5pts
(PVB, Two dogs, Bimbo)

This means Dr Bonfield is the only mortal being to participate in the winning team twice. Allegations of favouritism levelled against Quizmasta K by this author will be fully investigated by an Independent Panel chaired by myself.

* not actual spelling

Fair play to the 2's and 3's...1sts...er

The table for the 2011 Fair Play awards have been released. Full league tables available here

The 2's and 3's are also near the top of the 'all divs' table here. 

Congrats to the 2nds and 3rds. The 1sts may need to have a think about why we slipped so far from our placings in previous seasons. 

64 more Robin..

Robin has been on at me recently about how many more 1st XI league wickets he needs to overtake Geoff Barratt. The figure is 64....so 3 more seasons at least Robin!

Derived from Hugh K's stats programme and McGill's averages, an updated list of the top wicket -takers is available here.

Another record falls as Cross blow Irvine away in Scottish Cup.

Scottish Cup 1st round.

Holy Cross beat Irvine by 175 runs
Holy Cross 331-7 (50 overs, K Fraser 38, C Ellis 83, S Bonfield 60, C Smith 58*, S Singh 5-73)
Irvine 156 all out (S Butt 46, C Ellis 4-27)

full scorecard here

Holy Cross completed a successful and record-breaking weekend with a dominant batting display vs Irvine in the 1^st round of the Scottish Cup. Their 331-7 is believed to be a 1^st team record. The game was played in very strong wind, which not only caused bails to be dispensed with but also blew away caps, unattended helmets and even boundary markers! Scorers were forced to take shelter in the container. and the scoreboard had to be sheltered behind one of the buttresses of the clubhouse.

Well done to the Irvine guys for putting up with these conditions for 50 overs - we fortunately only needed to stay our there for 30.

Though not easy to bat (it wasn’t easy maintaining your balance at the crease), the bowlers certainly had the more difficult task, especially with the umpires under instruction from CS to be VERY tight on wides - there were 44 (15 as ‘5’ wides) in the HX innings.

Some highlights:

* EC successfully worked out how to set up the fielding circles!

* KF’s supercharged opening assault made full use of the 1^st powerplay and (with EC) helped take us to 79-1 off 12, allowing the middle order time to play themselves in.

* CE and Shannon were able to continue the controlled type of partnership they put together vs Grange 2s, with efficient dispatching of the loose deliveries.

* CA continued from were he left off on Saturday with a very fluent 58* including a BIG six over long on.

* Despite limited bowling resources, Cross started particularly well with Roshan and Shannon putting the opposition well behind the required run rate from an early stage.

* Though some part time bowlers were pressed into action they all did a decent job - CA picking up two wickets.

* Cross fielded enthusiastically (top marks to new boy Craig, PVB and Norrie) and supported each other in difficult conditions.

* Surprisingly both captains were able to keep up with the powerplays and other fielding conditions.

* Remind cje that he's on a hatrick next time he bowls (or just if he bowls again in the Scottish Cup??).

* Mandy again did a great job with the teas.
* McGill seemed to injure himself whilst scoring....

* cje's efforts to smuggle some leaf tea into the pot didn't prove too controversial.

Holy Cross will play Kelburne (away) in round 2 next Sunday (June 5^th). Draw here

Cross Make Progress in Cricket Scotland Trophy

This post was originally published under the title "Cross Make Progress in Cricket Scotland Trophy ?" Since then Cricket Scotland have confirmed us as the "winners". Hard on Dundee HSFP. We hope to meet them again on a sunnier day. (Admin)

The scorecard of the match and the SCU trophy Draw/ results can be viewed here: http://www.cricketscotland.com/node/6244

Heavy rain brought our match vs Dundee High FPs at Arbo to a premature conclusion.

The competition rules would suggest that we were ahead of the run rate at the time but....
we'll leave it to Cricket Scotland to sort out...

Holy Cross 238-5
C. Ellis 118, E. Smith 81
E. Parsons 2-25
J. Landwehr 2-23

I believe that the partnership of 193 between Smith and Ellis may well constitute a new 1st team record-beating the previous best of 174 (though that remains the league record) achieved in 1978 (PVB and HK, can you double check...). It's certainly the most these two batsman have put on together: beating the 146 they put on in the same competition at Forfar last year and the 132 they put on at Goldenacre in 2005.

Dundee HSFP 54-2 off 13 overs
K. Kyles 35*
S. Bonfield 2-19