Stuttering Cross through to Indoor Finals night

Score from Wednesday's re-scheduled LiveSport ESCA Indoor 6s matches:

Boroughmuir 115-2 : Tranent 55
HX (GT, CJE, Simon, Dougie, PVB, Pat) 95-3; Boroughmuir 59 all out
HX (GT, Simon, CJE, Dougie, KF, Pat) 61 all out : Tranent 50 all out

[further details from PVB to follow]



Perhaps not helped by KF's slight lateness...well he only missed one game... HX struggled in both matches. At the 15 over stage (matches are 10 overs per side) we were 2nd favourites in both matches but held our nerve better than our opponents.
Undoubtedly we also had a few moments of fortune, including two very near sixes that would have seen Tranent beat us, and a few '50: 50' decisions..

Cheers to PVB for stepping in...who was then kippered by Dougie...

Simon's Ist match for HX didn't start too promisingly...1st baller (was a decent shot-just picked out sq leg) but pulled it round: looking good in his 2nd knock, some good keeping, key wickets and a fine catch to clinch the game vs Tranent. Key to that victory-in all due fairness to KF -were three sharp catches behind the stumps.

After having a rather easy 1st evening, it was perhaps good preparation for Friday that we had such tough games. Tranent seem to have picked up some talented young players-watch out for them this season.

Scorecards (courtesy of PVB):

Holy Cross beat Boroughmuir by 36 runs

Holy Cross
Charlie Ellis ret 29
Gary Trewartha not out 31
Simon McOscar c midwkt b Boyapati 0
Dougie Russell not out 19
Pat Lynch run out 0
Paul Bailey run out 4
Extras 10
Total 95

Ram Boyapati 2-0-12-1
Harris 2-0-9-0
Njranjan 2-0-20-0
Ashish Talreja 2-0-31-0
Chaitanya 2-0-18-0

Boroughmuir
Ashish Talreja no 27
Ram Boyapati lbw Ellis 15
Harris  ? 1
Neil Craigmile b McOscar 10
Njranjan Siddegowda b McOscar 0
Chaitanya  run out 0
Extras 6 ( 3 wides, 3 leg byes)
Total 59 all out (8 overs)

Pat Lynch 1-0-1-0
Gary Trewartha 2-0-22-0 (2 wides)
Dougie Russell 2-0-14-0 ( 5 dot balls off the first 5 balls of his 2nd over)
Charlie Ellis 1-0-10-1
Simon McOscar  2-0-10-2 (1 wide)

Holy Cross beat Tranent by 11 runs

Holy Cross

Gary Trewartha b Amjad 9

Simon McOscar run out 7

Charlie Ellis ct ? b Hoenigmann 10

Dougie Russell st Craigmile b Fahad 3

Keith Fraser  not out 17

Pat Lynch c ? b Waleed 3

Extras 12

Total 61 (8.2 overs)

Amjad 2-0-27-1

Waleed 1.1-0-10-1

Hoenigmann 2-0-10-1

Fahad Nadeem 2-0-3-1 (First 11 balls were dot balls – 1 scoring shot)

Paul Dance 1-0-10-0

Overs

1 13-0

2 23-0

3 37-2

4 43-3

5 44-4

6 48-4

7 51-4

8 61 -4

 Tranent

Imran c Fraser b Russell 21

Aiden Hoenigmann c Fraser b Trewartha 0

Waleed Hassan not out 17

Paul Dance c Fraser b Russell 0

Fahad Nadeem c Fraser b McOscar 0

Amjad c&b McOscar 3

Extras 9

             Total 50 (8 overs)

Pat Lynch 1-0-3-0 (1 wide)

Gary Trewartha 2-0-17-1 (1 wide)

Charlie Ellis 1-0-3-0

Simon McOscar 2-0-10-2

Dougie Russell 2-0-14-2

Overs

1 4-0

2 8-1

3 11-1

4 25-1

5 38-1

6 41-1

7 42-3

8 50 all out.