Aged 48...!

Surely he can't be expecting to play competitive league cricket at such an age....

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/cricket/cricket-andy-goram-to-return-to-the-crease-aged-48-1-2232246

The Crumbling Face of Italian Cricket?!?!?

Anyone requiring cheering up for the weekend need look no further!!!

After the grim snapshots of the erse end of our decrepit and crumbling institution please enjoy this much more uplifting photo of the erse end of another decrepit and crumbling institution clapping his peepers on the Danish PM.

If this doesn't make you laugh, nothing will.

PS: Her name is Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

Read all about it

Last night I recieved a text from Tillekeratne Dilshan informing me he'd just bumped into a top Scottish Cricketer on Princes St.

"I'd been hanging about all day with my autograph book hoping to meet one of the Holy Cross Cricket team" said Dilshan, "then, just as I was giving up hope of ever seeing one of my heroes, around the corner strolled Ellis Charles".

Ellis was in action on Saturday blazing his way to 222* against Victoria FCC as 'the Cross' reached 47-17 in a league decider somewhere near Glasgow. Fortunately for the Glaswegian villagers the game had to be abandoned before Charles could take 10 wickets probably for no runs.

"I've memorised Charlie's book 'Coco - Chicago's Worst Pitch' ( book link ) and have never given my wicket away since" gushed the Sri lankan captain. "It was much better than that nonsense his captain wrote about what to do when its wet, overcast, the pitch is a bog and your up against the best attack in the league on their own patch ( book link )". Although I thought he did look a bit worse for wear, maybe it was the recent floods in Morningside".

Charlie Ellis invented the "Chuck".

Norrie Tastic & Ziggy Licious were unavailable for comment.

Archive Hour

Some Crossers may enjoy this 1948 British Council film on cricket, recently made available online:

http://timeimage.org.uk/archive/entry/cricket.html

No politics please

As we near the time that polling stations open, can contributors to this blog please refrain from posting political material on May 6th (between 7am and 10pm)-
in line with media guidelines which prohibit anything which could be construed as influencing the ballots on polling day.

This needs to be emphasised as this club is full of easily persuadable swing bowlers voters.

Those interested in the methods used to measure swing may find this BBC archive collection of interest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/swingometer/