Another Final...

President's Trophy Semi-Final-at Arboretum

Leith FAB 42ao
I Davies 19*
S. Bonfield 5-18, P. Lynch 4-12

Holy Cross 44-2
G. Trewartha 22*
O. Mazher 14*

HX will play Fauldhouse in the final. Date/ venue tbc but NOT Sunday 21st

The Croscars - Awards Night, 27th August

Hmmm. Normal service resuming - you know, stuff about cricket and the Cross, although the photo of the Grange night out was very nice.

To celebrate another successful season, Awards Night will be held in the Green Room at Arbo after the last league games on Saturday 27th August. No need to dress up like a member of the Bullingdon.

Many of the awards (eg Most League Runs, Most League Wickets and the highly prestigious Quack, Quack Oops award for most ducks) are awarded on the basis of Colin McGill's statistics. Others (such as the one involving the very snazzy Hawaiian shirt) are awarded entirely at the President-compere's discretion.

However, most awards need your participation, so please vote for as many or as few of the following as you like, and feel free to provide a little explanation/description where necessary. Votes to Mr Admin/JB/the Secretary by Thursday 25th, please.

• Club Player of the Year.
• 2nd XI Player of the Year.
• 3rd XI Player of the Year.
• The Wolrige Tankard - for the player with the best team spirit.
• Clubman of the Year.
• Most Improved Player.
• Most Disappointing Season.
• Most Memorable Team Performance.
• Best Younger Player.
• The WG Grace Award - best older player.
• Most Entertaining Moment.
• Trigger - the worst player-umpire.
• The Botham Award - most heroic individual performance.
• The James Bradley Memorial Princess Hissy Fit Award - best tantrum.
• Catch of the Year.

If there are any other incidents from the season that you remember with amusement or affection, please let me know about them and we may create a one-off award to commemorate them.

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;

Telegraph Article

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.

Fill your boots hen

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.

1st XI match OFF

The match vs Glenrothes is off. In fact the square is merely soft but about 60 % of the outfield is waterlogged-with two small ponds at the Ferry road end (within the boundary): some ducks were swimming in it yesterday evening. An inspection will be made later today (Saturday) regarding the possibility of play on Sunday.

Saturday Cancellations - 2s, 3s OFF; 1sts ON.

Because of the heavy rain of recent days, Edinburgh Leisure have been unable to prepare most of their grass pitches, so the 2nds' game at the Meadows and the 3rds' game at Campbell Park are off.

Because we are key-holders at Arboretum and because we can cut, roll and mark strips ourselves, the 1sts' games on Saturday and Sunday are still on at the moment.

Minotaur vs McEldrey

Crossers may be aware that the Australian selectors have been searching far and wide for prospective test cricketers and have been made aware of the our long term success of Shannon and more recently Pat. As a result they have demanded either their return or Cross provide an equal replacement.

A straw poll revealed one CA Smith to be our most "Australianesque" member and we have opted to ship him off for an initial two year tenure. He'll be working as a doctor to augment any potential lack of runs.

As a result CA is determined to end 16 years of hurt and finally overall his twin in the run scoring stakes. Rumours that his initial goal of outscoring The Prince (CJE) was quickly downgraded to out-scoring EC have been denied by his "people".

As it stands there is 1 league game and one cup final left

League runs:

EC Smith: 223
CA Smith: 165

Non League runs:

EC Smith: 83

CA Smith: 187

EC - 306

CA - 352

I'm unsure which carries more weight, league runs? Cup runs are still "first class" so do they all count?

Either way it's game on for the next two matches.......................SMITH OFF!!!!

Presidents Trophy

Last Sunday's washed out semi-final vs Leith FAB rearranged for this Sunday (14th) at Arbo.