Another Twenty: 20 Twatting

Aug 3rd at Arbo. 20 overs per side -Friendly match.
Scottish Widows 165/3 (E. Robertson 69*, R. Hannah 45, A Greigson 23).
Holy Cross 122/4 (A. Quinn 40*)

The disdain felt for this vulgar form of the game by HX players was evident in a poor performance against Scottish Widows*. The Widows' batsmen played well but were assisted by some inaccurate bowling and f***ing awful sloppy fielding. Their 165 was well over par given a fairly dead used strip.

A promising HX reply was ended in the 7th over when both openers - Nipun (unluckily) and cje (to a stupid shot)- fell to their leggie. His was not the only embarrassing dismissal-Bainbro and Vikram falling to to Scott Miller's gentle lobs. An acceptable score was attained through a good 40* from Andy Q and 20 odd from Andy K.

*Given this it was good to see that two members (EC Smith and S. Pickering) of the President's commission examining our approach to Twenty:20 cricket were in attendance-and taking copious notes.

Dismal Cross Toss Away Final Chance

Result from SCU Trophy Semi:
At Arboretum.

Holy Cross Academicals 185-6 (50 overs)
C. Ellis 54, S.Pickering 29

NOSCA 186-5 (34.3 overs)
R. Main 45
D. Wolton 43

More details to follow once I've calmed down a bit.

In summary, on a difficult wicket (on which 185 should have taken some getting), the first 7 overs from the Newfield end went for 76 runs with a mixture of full bungers and slow long hops and full bungers and full bungers ... As bad a series of overs that I've seen bowled at Arbo (and I've seen plenty Dyer efforts). Rather frustrating given the hard work we'd put in to get our runs.

Apologies to our supporters (Coco, pvb, Mark B, Mahmood, Michael) who had to witness such garbage.

scorecard here: http://www.cricketscotland.com/cards/2009/holnos

Media report here:
http://sport.scotsman.com/cricket/Trophy-dream-ends-in-five.5474999.jp