Showing posts with label things can only get better. Show all posts
Showing posts with label things can only get better. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 July 2012

Sifting Through The Smouldering Embers.


The Tears

In Affectionate Remembrance
of
Holy Cross Cricket
which died at Fortress Arboretum
on
21st July 2012
Deeply lamented by a large circle of Sorrowing
Friends, Acquaintances & Safety Committee members
R.I.P.
N.B. The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Grange Loan


The Pain


Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Fixture Congestion Eased


At the behest of Lord Admin, we have been busily engaging in a purge of fixture commitments by exiting tournaments in some haste.

Apologies for lack of details, I don't have any scorecards to hand.

On Sunday we travelled to Glasgow Accies (Gaccies v Haccies?) and were beaten with a couple of overs to spare. We made 144 all out which just wasn't enough in the end, top scorer most likely Gary T. Highlights included a comedy leave to a steepler by McGill on the boundary (as he didn't touch it, it doesn't count as a drop) and the best over of Dougie's career as he unleashed some unfeasible turn. Super Ted let us down badly after recent cup heroics collecting a Golden amidst a hat-trick and trashing his 1st XI average. Later Broonster incurred some jewel damage in a plucky last wicket stand and has been sitting down very carefully ever since.

Quote of the day by Broonster; "Stood on the scales this morning and I've lost 14lbs in two months. Nearly lost 2 stones in a day in Glasgow".

Man of the match - Their 5-for debutant.

Just found this - Glasgow Accies v Holy Cross
Note - This scorecard says Ted & Ziggy both made 1, from 1 ball, and were bowled. I'll need that explained to me.


Note the car headlights in the car park
On Tuesday we had the pleasure of playing on the Arty at Roseburn against Mufs in another semi final. It was damp, grey and gloomy at the start and got damper, greyer and gloomier. Ach I'll just come out and say it, Bimbo dropped the cup!!! Asif Mohammed who went on to blast 64 in no time was on about 2 when he toed one high towards long on, but Bimbo's bouncy mitts gave the Mufs man a second chance.

Gary T chips one into the gap
The next over Trewartha was blasted for two 6's and a 4 and wasn't the only one to suffer. So Dougie chucked the ball to Bimbo and asked him to make amends, but said ball was then brutally despatched straight back over his head and probably over the Water of Leith as well. It was never found. A local battleaxe walking her great great great grandchild took that opportunity to scold our humble skipper along the lines of Health & Safety (even although the ball cleared the path, the curmudgeon and her little miracle by about 3,000 feet).

Once Mohammed departed, the Cross bowlers regained control and were able to restrict the hosts to only 139. Owais (7), Me (7) & McO (2) got us off to a rubbish start. Gary T salvaged a decent 30 in the middle somewhere, but the rest of us were unable to deal with the scoreboard pressure, the invisible ball and the dancing feet of their opening bowler (you had to be there). The innings finished with Sandy & Andy R needing just eight 6's from the last 8 balls and they let us down very badly as the innings concluded at 93-10 from 19 overs.

Man of the Match - Bobby Bainbridge.


Sunday, 21 August 2011

1997 vs 2011....

Having matched the performance of the 1st XI of 1997, questions have been raised about the relative merits of the two sides...

Derived from Hugh K's stats, here is the core side that represented the club in the 1997 season (number of appearances in brackets-15 matches in total):

Bates (15)
Barker (13)
Bradley (15)
Willey (5)/ Begg (4) / Wheatley (5)
Ellis (6)/ E. C. Smith (5)/ Afzaal (5)
Russell (11)
Robertson (c/ wkt) (11)
Dyer (15)
Worsnop (8)
Fisher (10)
McGill (15)

How does this line up compare with that fielded on the last Saturday of the season (and also not forgetting Two Dogs). 4 players (plus Bates-one 1st team league appearance in 2011) feature in both...but are they the same players...

Mazher
Fraser
Ellis
C. A. Smith
E.C. Smith
Bonfield
Russell
Pickering
Trewartha/ Worsnop
Bainbridge
Lynch

feel free to comment...especially keen to hear the Pres' views.

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Just Not Cricket

What, no cricket, oh well, are we allowed politics on here? No, oh, never mind, here are some thoughts on the UK Riots (sic) anyway.

A good place to start, Peter Oborne in the Telegraph;

Looters and Rioters?


Next up, some Bullingdon photos; I say


“…But within hours of the photo (right) being taken, the 10 young men were wreaking havoc on Oxford, where they were all at university.
One of them, said to be Ewen Fergusson (4), threw a plant pot through a restaurant window and the police were called…”

David Cameron
About the destruction of peoples businesses during the riots;
“criminality pure and simple”
About the trashing of a restaurant by the super rich student members of the Bullingdon Club;
Like many young people, I did things when I was young that I should not have done and that I regret”.

About Andy Coulson
“I decided to give him a second chance”
About looters and rioters
Law-breaking has to be punished. One of the heartening things we are seeing now is because the courts have been sitting round the clock we are seeing a much tighter timetable between getting your collar felt by a police officer, going to a police cell, appearing in front of a court and being sent to prison

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
About the destruction of peoples businesses during the riots;
“This behaviour was criminal behaviour”
About his days in the Bullingdon Club;
The blissful sponge of amnesia has wiped clean the slate of memory,

It's not just the tories, top Labour brain, Hazel Blears stands during the school holidays and asks;
“Why are these kids not in school?”

I can’t do her herioic expenses claims justice. Here is a link.


Yup, she's still an MP. Just the sort of person we need to clamp down on people who think they can just take mod cons for free.

Coming soon, the Broonster/Frazerio dream ticket.

Saturday, 24 July 2010

Thrice Thrashed

1sts.
at Fettes
Grange 220ao
D. Phillip 103, R. Pollok 40, B. Parkinson 22.
A. Millington 4-44

Holy Cross 105ao
S. Pickering 27
B. Kaczynski 6/26

High class knock from Douglas Phillip took the game away from us after Grange had been 86/4 at drinks.
Excellent opening spells from Phillip and especially from young William Edwards (final figures of 7/4/4/2) set the tone for our rather spineless response. After that Kaz bowled well but not sure our 'shot selection' was the best.

2nds.
PVB reports:
'Div 5 SMRH2 about 220 - 5 with 50 for Pete Mitchell & good knocks from Steve and Dave. Holy Cross didn't roll over completely till they reached 79-4 (Nipun Mehta 49) and then lost their last 6 for 0, 5 more wkts for Charlie Butcher. A well deserved win for a sporting team'.

3rds
Morton 2 vs Holy Cross @ Meadows

Morton - 248/6 (S Vass - 81*, S Aron - 51, Raj Thangaraj - 38)
beat
Holy Cross - 98/10 (Teegarden - 3fer, A Farrell - 2fer)