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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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Most of the entries in this blog aim to be light-hearted, often downright trivial. This one is anything but.

Freuchie Cricket Club is fortunate in having Roundtrip Solutions Limited as IT supplier and sponsor. John Thomson, MD of Roundtrip, earlier this week identified a serious compromise of the FETA website - the Forth Estuary Transport Authority, which provides information on the Forth Road Bridge. Details of the incident involving hackers redirecting visitors to a malware server in Turkey and John’s investigation of it are reported in today’s Scotsman.

We tend to think that taking guard has to do with lining up our bat with one or more of the stumps. If anything is needed to remind us that there are more forms of attack than what the other team’s bowlers can offer, this is it.

If you have visited the FETA website within the last few weeks then you may wish to read John’s analysis and suggestions for checking your computer.

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This column has been deplorably neglected of late, so here’s some bits and pieces.

We’ve finally settled plans for The Centenary Whisky, which will be a cask-strength (46%) 12 year old single malt from Tomatin with our own label. The design of the label is just being finalised, the order is already placed and we should be getting delivery mid to late November.

We’ll have Centenary Ties as well; the design was agreed at the last meeting of your hard-working committee, and I’m proud to say I’ve got mine already. (Just to pay for it!)

We’ve also ordered some rather smart pens which will carry the legend Freuchie Cricket Club, Centenary Year, 2008, with forest green bodies and black ink. They’ll be with us in the next couple of weeks as well.

Christmas presents? Nae problem.

We are delighted to announce that Mrs Elspeth Skinner of Lathrisk House has undertaken to be one of our patrons. Details have still to be worked out, but her support will be invaluable and we’re hoping that we may be able to apply for a Sportsmatch award for one of our major projects. However, they’ve dished out all their cash for this year, so we’ll have to wait to see what can be done.

Plans for Mrs Skinner to meet with Dave Christie this morning didn’t work out, though, because he was away skiving. What? A dry morning and Dave not up the park? What’s his excuse? Answer: Dave has again been awarded the accolade of Scotland’s Grounsdman of the Year, and was off to Ingliston to view the flash ground-keeping machinery and be presented with his award. We are talking about the need to replace our aging outfield mower, and this was a chance to see what’s available. I was glad I was sitting down when Dave told me about costs, but Dave being Dave, he might have a work-around… More news soon.

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MATCH ANALYSIS

Not sure which is which, but if last weekend’s collapse at Drumpelier was the “saw,” yesterday was surely the “see.”

At home to Forfarshire and hosting our Sponsors’ Day (lunch and a wee jolly as a “Thank You” to our sponsors), we were particularly anxious to put on a good show on Saturday. Forfarshire is a strong side, captained by Scotland skipper Ryan Watson, so we were worried about the possibility of him skelping the ball around our not-awfully-large park. However, he was caught by Robbie Birrell off Gibby’s bowling for 32 and Forfarshire were all out for 110 in 39.2 overs.

In reply, our opener Steve Rowley was looking good until he skied one, but his co-opener Robbie Birrell was joined by Jason, and that was the end of the visitors’ successes. Sengie finished 61 not out, Robbie 42 not out. Only downer is the news of a fairly serious knee ligament problem for Scott Galloway. He wasn’t playing and we hope he mends quickly.

Some photos from the play on Saturday.

Photo 1: Forfarshire bowler at full pelt

Photo 2: Freuchie’s Robbie Birrell puts in a great show

Photo 3: Forfarshire fielder watches as Jason Seng fends off another fast ball

Photo 4: Forfarshire fielder retrieves another Freuchie four ball from Albany Crescent 

Taken by John A Thomson 9th June 2007

One last photo, the all-conquering Freuchie team - they done us proud in front of our sponsors.

Photo 5: The victorious Freuchie 1st Team 

Left to right back row: Alan Wallace, Scott Gourlay, Jock Wallace (Alan’s big brother), Stewart Gibson, Robbie Mutch (South African amateur), Jason Seng, Kenny Crichton & Kris Glen.

Left to right front row; Scott Galloway, Steve Rowley, Scott Birrell, Alan Duncan (veteran of our 1985 Lord’s victory), Robbie Birrell (Scott’s twin) and Allan Baxter (who scores for Freuchie and for Scotland).

Photograph taken by Lawrence Peters (that’ll be why he not in it!)

You can request high quality versions of these photos by sending a request via the “Contact Us” form.

More photos can be viewed over at Cricket Scotland.

MATCH ANALYSIS

A desperately depleted Second XI was away to Livingston, with an injured Dave Cowan compelled to play because of a whole string of call-offs and Kris Glen with the Firsts to replace Scott Galloway. Coo’s injury forced him to stop bowling after only three overs and Livingston accumulated a daunting 228.

Not what you want to see when you’re fielding ten and a half players, three of them dragged from the under 17s. But they did it! They did it! Two balls to spare, and huge batting contributions from the Coo and the always reliable Arun Trivedi. A most gratifying result, to put it mildly.

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