The Field of Dreams has witnessed many outstanding performances, individual flashes of brilliance and surreal scenes of cricketing history in the making. Saturday at Arbo proved to be no different!
A makeshift 2's side featured a handful of regular Thirds and a Holy Cross debutant in the shape of Neaves against a Falkland side which offered a fine blend of youth and experience in their ranks.
Following a week of rain and a smittering of sunshine, the wicket at Arbo had held up exceptionally well considering and it was Cross who batted first. PVB and Scott Russell opened the batting as the clouds closed in.
A partnership of 23 came to a halt when Bailey was caught and bowled by the on-form Miekle for 15. It was the same man who put paid to Royal John's innings, in exactly the same way - this time for a duck!
Ellis Snr started sharply with a boundary however he lost Russell (16) shortly after when Scotty was tempted by Miekle into making a skyward blast but this was caught at cover. Neaves hit his first ever Cross runs and in style - a boundary but he lost Ellis to a dodgy run out call shortly after drinks.
In came Captain Smudger to steady HMS Holy Cross however the Skipper could only add 5 to the scoreboard before being caught at point from a Wilkie delivery.
Ray was out for 6 after taking a wild haymaker swipe at the ball and Neaves was bowled by Wilkie shortly after. Lohan then made his way to the middle to stop the rot.
McIntosh and Brown put on double figures between them (6 & 4 respectively) which left Cross on 104 with Gerry coupling up with Michael from the Rugby Club as the last stand.
Needing 6 more runs to gain another batting point, Lohan was keen to get on strike and was heard from the boundary urging Michael on occassion to 'stop running'! With 109 on the board, Michael facing - Ladbrokes suspended betting. However, ye of little faith - cometh the hour, cometh the Michael and the big man lashed out and earned his first run in competitive cricket for the Cross!
Another run from top scorer Lohan took the Cross to 111 all out, with our music man finishing on 24.
That man Lohan tried to take on the visitors on his own in response after an awesome Tea with 3 for 14.
Despite this fine showing, including a top catch from McIntosh, it wasn't enough to thwart a fine batting display from Caldwell and Anson who finished on 31 & 32 with the visitors completing the task in the 34.1 overs with seven wickets in hand.
Full photographic evidence available via Broonster's Facebook page
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Outstanding work Brooster, love the shot of Jerry!
ReplyDeleteMaybe more Crossers could get their cameras out and we could hold an exhibition at the end of the season to raise money for.........some new kit for Vihram......a merlin........a table tennis table.......the Scottish Socialists......
Bainbro - you've taken that too far....
ReplyDeleteyes, excellent photos-gives one a real feel for way the game proceeded.
ReplyDeletegood pictures of Ellis Snr's run-out-was it a direct hit?
CJE - it was a direct hit, although if the option to 'go upstairs' for a video reply was available, Ellis Snr may not have been making his way back to the Pavillion seconds later....
ReplyDeleteI see..
ReplyDeleteit's a shame the threes had a weakish team for this one-hopefully Russell E and others will be back next week
Falkland's view of proceedings:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.falklandcricketclub.org.uk/3rdHolyCrossA.html