Round the Wicket

The team selection for the 1st and 2nd XI for this coming weekend are shown below.

1. R Birrell (Capt)
2. S Birrell
3. C Balfour 
4. D Cowan (Snr)
5. D Cowan (Jnr) 
6. A Duncan
7. S Galloway
8. S Gourlay   
9. S Rowley
10. J Wallace
11. Res – A N Other 

Players meet 10am (prompt) at Freuchie Cricket Club due to team participation in preparing teas. 1pm match start.

Any call offs call R Birrell on 07960 568376.

1. S Kennedy (Capt)
2. M Brown 
3. R Brown 
4. K Crichton 
5. S Gibson 
6. D Harper
7. L Kelly 
8. J McIntosh
9. S Munro 
10. A Sutherland
11. R Wright 
12. Res – n/a

Players meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 11:00am for 1pm start at Leith.

Any call offs call S Kennedy on 07957 585902.

Good luck once again to both teams.

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The team selection for the 1st and 2nd XI for this coming weekend are shown below.

1. R Birrell (Capt)
2. S Birrell
3. D Cowan (Snr)
4. D Cowan (Jnr) 
5. S Galloway
6. S Gibson
7. S Gourlay
8. M Jackson
9. S Rowley
10. A Sutherland
11. J Wallace
12. Res – n/a

Players meet 11:30am at Freuchie Cricket Club for 1pm start.

Any call offs call R Birrell on 07960 568376.

1. S Kennedy (Capt)
2. F Black
3. A Duncan 
4. K Crichton 
5. B Forrester
6. D Harper 
7. L Kelly 
8. J McIntosh 
9. A Paterson
10. R Wright
11. S Munro
12. Res – n/a

Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 11:00am for 1pm start at Stirling.

Any call offs call S Kennedy on 07957 585902.

Good luck once again to both teams.

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Not much to say about last week as the game was unfortunately rained off. Onto this week and we play SMRH at home which is a huge game for both teams, as we both fight to consolidate our positions in the league. Selection was very difficult as we have players coming back from injury and we’ve gained the services of two outstanding players in Fergus Black and Angus Paterson. Fergus has played for the club for several years but unfortunately his education takes him down south. Angus has joined the club this year and lives locally, but again his education takes him further afield so he can only attend at this time of year. Although Fergus and Angus are 15 they’ve both gained a lot of cricket experience at their respective schools. Its very exciting times at the club as there is a core of juniors playing in the 2^nd’s so hopefully we can keep them together and they can progress into the 1^st’s, if not this season then definitely next year.

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The team selection for the 1st and 2nd XI for this coming weekend are shown below.

1. R Birrell (Capt)
2. S Birrell
3. D Cowan (Snr)
4. D Cowan (Jnr) 
5. S Galloway
6. S Gibson
7. S Gourlay
8. M Jackson
9. S Rowley
10. A Sutherland
11. J Wallace
12. Res – n/a

Players meet 11:45am at Freuchie Cricket Club for 1pm start at Falkland Cricket Club.

Any call offs call R Birrell on 07960 568376.

1. S Kennedy (Capt)
2. F Black
3. G Christie 
4. K Crichton 
5. B Forrester
6. D Harper 
7. L Kelly 
8. J McIntosh 
9. A Paterson
10. R Wright
11. To be confirmed
12. Res – n/a

Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 11:15am for 1pm start.

Any call offs call S Kennedy on 07957 585902.

Good luck once again to both teams.

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Firstly my apologies for not providing a Captain’s Corner last week, things were very hectic. Very briefly on last week’s games, we were beaten in the league by Corstorphine  and unfortunately were also beaten by Falkland in the last over of the Fife Cup Final. The scorecard from the Corstorphine game is here.

The very good news from Saturday last week was we won against Prestwick in a bottom of the league clash! Scorecard here.  It was very fitting due to it also being our Sponsor’s Day which was a great success. Thanks to everyone who made it possible and helped out on the day.

Everyone contributed to the game and if we can keep playing to this standard I’m sure we can survive in SNCL Division 2.

Onto Saturday this week and we’re at Falkland, we will be hoping to avenge the early season loss against them, in which Duckworth Lewis played a major part in this defeat!

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Unfortunately we were undone on Saturday by a very controversial Umpiring decision which cost us the game! Scorecard is here.

Renfrew batted first and scored 219 on a very good batting track. Some wayward bowling and fielding again gave them at least 30 runs more than they should have gotten. Myself and Stevie Rowley got off to a great start putting on 70+ for the first wicket, Stevie went on to make over 70 runs himself. However once again our batting failed to dominate the bowlers until Dave Cowan came in to change the game, very nearly taking us all the way to victory. That was until he was given a very dubious LBW with 6 runs left to win the game, well within his capability as there were 8 balls remaining.

This week will be another very hard game as we are in the capital playing Edinburgh who’s batsmen are renowned for going for their shots. Should be an interesting day!

Sunday we were on Scottish Cup duty at Dunfermline Knights, once again we came up short. Dunfermline’s professional, Alistair Gray, was a quality player and took the game away from us with an accomplished innings of 80+ not out. Freuchie won the toss and chose to bat first, we managed to make 196 in the 50 overs, probably 40 runs short of a competitive total, on a very good wicket. On the plus side the young lads, Dale Cowan and Robbie Wright, came into the side and did very well. Both bowling pretty tight spells against quality batsmen. A big learning curve for both of them. Hopefully we can get our revenge on Thursday night in the Fife Cup, which is being played again at Dunfermline.

Well done to the 2^nd’s, who won their league game on Saturday against Leith. The boys are steadily climbing up the league and will be hoping for another win on Saturday against Edinburgh 2^nd XI.

A wee mention to Greg Birrell, Ross McMurdo and Grant Horsburgh who will be representing Fife & Tayside under 12’s on Sunday at Freuchie, please come along and support them if you can.

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The team selection for the 1st and 2nd XI for this coming weekend are shown below.

1. R Birrell (Capt)
2. D Cowan (Snr)
3. S Gourlay
4. S Galloway
5. S Birrell
6. A Duncan 
7. S Rowley
8. S Gibson 
9. A Sutherland 
10. J Wallace
11. D Harper
12. Res – n/a

Players meet 10:00am at Freuchie Cricket Club for 1pm start at Renfrew.

Any call offs call R Birrell on 07960 568376.

1. S Kennedy (Capt)
2. A Leckie
3. D Cowan (Jnr) 
4. R Wright
5. K Crichton 
6. M Jackson 
7. G Christie 
8. K Khalil 
9. B Forrester
10. S Munro
11. I Patterson
12. Res – L Kelly, C Balfour 

Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 11:30am for 1pm start.

Any call offs call S Kennedy on 07957 585902.

1. R Birrell (Capt)
2. D Cowan (Snr)
3. S Gourlay
4. S Galloway
5. S Birrell
6. A Duncan 
7. S Rowley
8. S Gibson 
9. A Sutherland 
10. J Wallace
11. D Harper
12. Res – n/a

Players meet 11:30am at Freuchie Cricket Club for 1pm start at Dunfermline.

Any call offs call R Birrell on 07960 568376.

Good luck once again to both teams.

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I’m very pleased to say that we got our 2^nd win of the season on Saturday with a fairly comfortable win over Weirs. Scorecard is here.

The day got off to a good start when Weirs lost the toss so I had the choice to bat or bowl, so bat I did choose. In the end it proved to be the right choice as Freuchie posted a very good total of 249, a total that is well within our grasp if we put our minds to it. The key to this total was a good start by myself and Steve Rowley, putting on 80+ for the first wicket, a great platform for the rest of the guys coming in to play their shots. Big Dave Cowan pressed the accelerator at the right time with a quick fire 30+ to push us up to 249 as well as very useful contributions from the rest of the guys.

Once again we got off to a great start in the bowling with a good opening spell from Scott Gourlay and Dave Cowan. Stewart Gibson on his debut for the 1^st XI this year did very well under the circumstances as we were under the cosh for a while when Razza Butt as he was dispatching the ball to all parts of the ground. We eventually got him out on 80 and effectively that was their run chase over. Once again Steve Rowley was the pick of the bowlers with 5 wickets.

As for this weekend, its another big game for us as Renfrew are below us in the league so we really need to make this game count. On Sunday we are relieved by the pressures of league cricket as we are playing in the Scottish Cup against Dunfermline Knights who are doing very well since being promoted to the first division, it will be a very big test for us.

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Another bad day for Freuchie Cricket Club on Saturday, another average display in all departments! We probably gave West Lothian an extra 30 runs due to some errors in the field, but at half time we were still confident of chasing down their score of 196. Scott Galloway once again was our main runs scorer, but even he will feel disappointed at not finishing off the job in hand, going for 64. With plenty of batting still to come, we needed somebody to take responsibility to win the game for us, sadly there was no one up to the challenge and we fell agonisingly short by 3 runs.

The scorecard is available for inspection from the Cricket Scotland website.

This week we have the long journey to Dumfries, where we will find another tough test of our resilience. Its been a few years since we played them but history tells us that these games are usually tight affairs.

Due to work commitments, Jock Wallace has dropped down to the 2nds as has Andy Sutherland. Their replacements are Dale Cowan and Graeme Christie, who makes his 1st XI debut this season.

Congratulations to the 2nds who won their game against Livingston on Saturday.

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The team selection for the 1st and 2nd XI for this coming weekend are shown below.

1. R Birrell (Capt)
2. D Cowan (Snr)
3. S Gourlay
4. S Galloway
5. S Birrell
6. M Jackson
7. S Rowley
8. A Sutherland
9. J Wallace
10. K Crichton
11. D Harper
12. Res – n/a

Players meet 11:30am at Freuchie Cricket Club.

Any call offs call R Birrell on 07960 568376.

1. S Kennedy (Capt)
2. A Leckie
3. D Cowan (Jnr)
4. R Wright
5. B Forrester
6. I Patterson
7. G Christie
8. G Morris
9. L Kelly
10. K Glen
11. S Munro
12. Res – n/a

Meet at Freuchie Cricket Club at 11:00am for 1pm start at Livingston.
Any call offs call S Kennedy on 07957 585902.

Good luck to both teams.

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