Captain’s Corner: Must Do Better!
These are the words that spring to mind when thinking of Saturday’s first league game against Corstorphine. I’m sad to say that they out played us in every department.
Unfortunately I lost the toss and was put into bat, Its just a pity the cricket wasn’t up to that standard! Other than Steve Rowley there wasn’t many pass marks on the batting front, as again players weakly gave up their wicket through bad shot selection, 166 was never going to be enough to defend on a drying wicket.
This brings us onto the bowling, apart from the opening partnership of Dave Cowan and Scott Gourlay, who again both troubled the batsmen on several occasions and kept runs to a trickle, the bowling was far too short and the lines not tight enough which enabled the batsmen to score freely on both sides of the wicket and made setting the field very difficult.
We will certainly be working hard at training this week, weather permitting!
Saturday cannot come quick enough to try and redeem ourselves and get our first (much needed) win of the season. We welcome Scott Birrell back into the squad after work commitments last week, this will surely strengthen the batting and bowling at Prestwick.
Behind the scenes we are working fervently to get Mario Saliwa, our professional, into the UK and playing cricket for us throughout Scotland. We’ll keep you up to date on the pro situation as it developers further.
Again we must thank Dave Christie for all his efforts as the wicket was exceptional for this time of year. There were a few comments about how good our ground looked from both umpires and players.
Resources:
Scorecard for Freuchie vs RH Corstorphine
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Juniors Team Selection
Three matches over the coming days for the juniors. The fixture information and team selections are listed below.
| COMPETITON | U11s League |
| DATE | Sun 3rd May 2009 |
| FIXTURE | Largo Cricket Club |
| VENUE | Freuchie Cricket Ground |
- Jack Gourley
- Callum Guiney
- Greig Birrell
- Finlay Haig
- Ryan Grant
- Ashleigh Houston
- Sarah Paterson
- Cory Bridgeford
- Taylor Cox
Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 9:30am.
Any call offs please contact Neil Millar 07860 864850 or 01337 858232.
| COMPETITON | U13s Scottish Cup |
| DATE | Tue 5th May 2009 |
| FIXTURE | Dunfermline Cricket Club |
| VENUE | Freuchie Cricket Ground |
- Ross McMurdo
- Grant Horsburgh
- Greig Birrell
- Euan Muir
- Chris Hunt
- Jack Tuft
- Holly Jones
- Joe Middleton
- Calum Guiney
- Cory Bridgeford
- Jack Gourley
- Ryan Grant
Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 5:30pm.
Any call offs please contact Neil Millar 07860 864850 or 01337 858232.
| COMPETITON | U15s Scottish Cup |
| DATE | Thu 7th May 2009 |
| FIXTURE | Falkland Cricket Club |
| VENUE | Falkland Cricket Ground |
- Andrew Mackie
- Grant Horsburgh
- Greig Birrell
- Cameron Millar
- Chris Hunt
- Blair Lawrie
- Holly Jones
- Joe Middleton
- Rory Brown
- Liam Kelly
- Shane Munro
- Lewis Pour
Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 5:30pm.
Any call offs please contact Neil Millar 07860 864850 or 01337 858232.
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