Round the Wicket

Well, near the school – along the schuill wall, and round the park to learn a bit about cricket.

Catch her report in The Scottish Review – good pics of the park, the lads, and star of stage screen and radio, Mary Low. Well, star of Islay’s report.

What we should have told Islay is that this was the first round of the Patent Attorney Murgitroyd & Company’s Caledonia T:20, and a fine match it was. We batted first for a tolerable score of 157, with DHSFP always pretty much up with the clock when it came their turn. Things could have gone absolutely either way, but a truly stunning one-handed catch from skipper Alan Wallace off the bowling of Scott Gourlay (once again – see Islay’s report in The Scottish Review for some comment on each of them) tipped matters in our favour and we ran out winners by nine runs. (I think the lower right of Islay’s pictures is Alan W getting back on his feet from taking that catch, Scott G in the background saying “YES!!” and I think we scored two runs more than Islay credits us with, but I’m not going to argue with a lady).

Stoneywood Dyce next …..

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Some pictorial records have been unearthed from our pre-season tour to Ireland ….

We thought it was just a cricket tour, too …. Did you realise that this was a wedding party? Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage … And is the guy with the dark shirt a priest?

And are the witnesses not impressed?

Get your captions in!

The Fixture Cards are finally with us. Bigger and better than ever. However, for those who can’t come to the clubhouse to pick one up, here’s the list, including those already played. This is a long bit of copy typing for somebody noted for careless errors, so if anybody sees wrangities, sing out.

Junior Club Cricket:

Junior District Cricket: 

Senior Cricket:

The weather has been stunning all day in Fife, but alas the cricket gods conspired to bring the rain clouds floating over Freuchie just as the Juniors gathered to proudly display their new kit tops. Fading light and overcast skies may have worked against the taking of photographs, but it certainly didn’t damp the enthusiasm of our young players.

Freuchie Cricket Club would like to thank Campion Homes for their very generous kit sponsorship and show of support for our young players.

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What is it they say about working with children and animals again? That can certainly be extended to photographing our younger cricketers! Hopefully, the weather will be kinder on another evening so we can attempt to take better photographs for all the proud parents to put on display.

Please use the Contact Us form if you are an enthusiast young cricketer that would like to be part of Freuchie Cricket Club.

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No denying that the number of items on the ‘bad’ side is heavily out-weighing the ‘good’ at the moment. Where do we start?

Last post was greeting our overseas player Bev Smith. Bev’s brother played for us in 2004 and a number of our members are friends of the family in Johannesburg. When it was suggested that Bev might come to us this year, we all said whoopee, or words to that effect. We did not do the normal checks. When we came to register him, we found he was too old to be classed as an Overseas Amateur, and did not have the coaching certificates to let him be an unpaid professional. Big thank you to Clarence Parfitt of  Cricket Scotland who worked hard to help us with arranging coaching certificate courses, but Bev decided it would all take too long and took the plane home last Thursday. Tough on Bev, sad for us.

We have a long injury list to add to this, so it’s not going to be an easy season.

We were also bouncing in our last post about the Twos’ success against Carlton. The ESCA competitions committee have taken the view that we went against the spirit of things by playing Alan Wallace and Steve Rowley, and have reversed the points score – nowt to us, ten to Carlton. We don’t think we went against the spirit at all, have the right of appeal and are exercising it.

And the good? Thumping home win for the Firsts against Stenhousemuir on Saturday, which puts us third in Division I. If we can maintain that through the season with such a depleted squad and no overseas players, it’ll be some feat.

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