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For those brave enough, or with a strong constitution, you may like to take a look over on the Forfarshire Cricket Club website for a round up and video footage of the XI match held on Saturday 7th June 2008.

Unfortunately for us, Forfarshire Cricket Club was by far the stronger team and played exceedingly well on the day.

Cricket Scotland also has the official scorecard for this match available for your perusal.

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Photo: Alan Duncan , President of Freuchie Cricket Club, welcomes the sponsors

Photo: The sponsors tuck into a delicious lunch

Photo: The local support was out in strength

Photo: Fans watch on from their cars

Photo: A fine day for cricket

Photo: But, alas wickets were lost too cheaply by Freuchie

Photo: Forfarshire congratulate themselves

Photo: Freuchie batsman puts some runs on the scoreboard

Photo: Forfarshire retrieve the ball from a nearby garden

Photo: The rowdy Freuchie fans cheer on their team

Photo: Forfarshire kept the pressure coming

Photo: Is someone lying down on the job?

Photo: Freuchie kept plugging away

Photo: That’ll be another run on the scoreboard

Photo: … and another

Photo: Run, run and keep running

Photo: “Quick! Get this mess cleaned up before Dave Christie sees it!”

Photo: “Dave will never know we touched his stuff!”

Photo: The onslot begins by the Forfarshire batsmen

Photo: Forfarshire batsman returns to the Pavilion after playing his part

Photo: Forfarshire put more and more runs onto the scoreboard

Photo: Is that a four then?

Photo: Is that a cricket bat or a light saber?

Photo: Even a break for orange squash didn’t affect the end result!

Photo: The winning post get closer with every ball

 
Photo: Freuchie Pele?

Photo: The Four Amigos enjoy the refreshments 

Photo: A thorn between two roses! 

Photo: “The Happy Couple” would like to announce….

Photo: Most stylish shoes of the day? 

Photo: Is Neil taking his Juniors’ duties too far?

Photo: The post match analysis goes on well into the evening!

If anyone would like a hi quality version of any photo then send an email to John over at Roundtrip Solutions.

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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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Alan Wallace sends us the following report:

For the third consecutive season Freuchie attended the Scottish Media indoor 6 a side tournament at Ravelston (Scottish Cricket Academy) in Edinburgh and were successful in reaching the finals. In 2006, at the first effort Freuchie won the overall tournament and followed it up in 2007 finishing third, with second overall this year.

After seeing off Preston Village and Murrayfield DAFS off in the opening games, Freuchie met and beat SMRH in the semi finals. Freuchie played the Bank of Scotland Corporate team in the final. In the end the Bank won a close game with five balls remaining.

(If there are any errors in the scores below, they are down to my typing. John A)

Freuchie v SMRH.

Freuchie Innings

SMRH Innings

Freuchie v Bank of Scotland

Freuchie Innings

Bank of Scotland Innings

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Alan Wallace reports:

For the third consecutive season Freuchie Cricket Club is competing in the Cricket Media Super Sixes Indoor Six-a-Side tournament at Cricket Scotland’s Cricket Academy at Ravelston, Edinburgh. In 2006, at the first effort, Freuchie won the overall tournament and followed it up in 2007 finishing third or fourth.

This year, Freuchie’s first games were on Friday 25 January 2008 versus Preston Village and Murrayfield Dafs. In the end Freuchie won both games comfortably, although if the opposing batsmen had shown a little more composure, the outcome might not have been so conclusive.

The man of the match for the Preston Village game goes to Scott Galloway and to Scott Birrell for the Murrayfield Dafs game.

The next stage of the tournament will involve Freuchie playing the same teams once more on Friday 22 February 2008. Because Preston Village beat Murrayfield Dafs, as long as Freuchie beat Preston Village they are guaranteed to qualify for the semi final/final which will be played on Friday 7 March 2008.

Preston Village v Freuchie Cricket Club

1st Innings

Extras                                

Total:  116 For 1

2nd Innings

Extras                                

Total:  79 for 5

Murrayfield Dafs v Freuchie Cricket Club

1st Innings 

Extras                                

Total:  138 for 5 

2nd Innings

Extras

Total:  62 for 5

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Do or Die, we said.

Sadly, more of a whimper than a bang for the Firsts. A win on Saturday would have seen us in a play-off for promotion to Premier Division, but it was not to be. We fared poorly against Aberdeenshire Cricket Club’s attack then took only four of their wickets, giving us the proverbial nul points. Meanwhile, Stenhousemuir scored ONE SINGLE POINT in their match against Watsonians, to nudge us into fourth place. The ‘Sair tae Bear’ reported against Arbroath a few weeks back is now mair sair - we lost then by a single run, when just two more would have seen us firmly in second place. Anyway, no moaning!

The Twos did better, though. At home to Holy Cross with an injury-depleted team, they held the visitors to 170 runs, then batted resolutely to reach 171. Blair Forrester’s excellently struck 71 not out was a huge part of this. Indeed, he and Graeme Christie looked totally in control for a while until Blair called for a single of a smartly driven cover drive and Graeme was run out. Had Blair been a little more cautious in his call, had Graeme been backing up better, they might have made it a six wicket victory. The main thing is that we think this is enough to keep them in the top division of the East League, but that has yet to be confirmed.

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We’ve just updated an earlier post to include an extra photograph of the all conquering Freuchie team who saw off Forfarshire on our Sponsor’s Day match back in sunny June. Have a look to see our heroes who done us so proud!

Thinking about it… wasn’t the weather much better back then?

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“Hello Central. This is Doctor Jazz.” (Slight modification of Mr Morton’s lyrics. Check him out). “I would like to order a game for a patient who already suffers from hypertension.”

“Central can offer you a game in which the home side bats first, looks like it might stage a batting debacle but rallies to a reasonably respectable 199 for 8, then works its way through the opposing batsmen until numbers 10 and 11 are at the crease, needing thirty runs for victory with about five overs left and run rate to date around three an over. At that point, we offer a string of (hard) missed catches, a skied drive into a tree to give the visitors four runs on what would otherwise have been a catch and a few edges to get them within eleven runs of victory, then the last man clean bowled. How does that sound?” “Great. That’ll send his blood pressure as high as the one that went into the tree.”

So what do you want? Walk-overs or competitive matches that could go either way until late on? It wasn’t easy to watch, but the result puts us tied in second place with Aberdeenshire (scores identical) and tied on points with Stenhousemuir, who have 16 bonus points against our 19. Just what the doctor ordered for us, if hard lines on visitors Drumpellier who had begun to look like snatching victory from the proverbial.

The Twos were at Glenrothes, who were too strong for us, scoring 153 when we could manage only 98 in reply. Our bowlers didn’t have the greatest of days and too few of our batsmen got going, but as we’ve said before, that’s not all that bad against a club that was a first team opponent not all that long ago.

Do come along on Sunday 5th to watch the SCU Trophy Final between Huntly CC and Irvine CC, which will be held at our ground.

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It doesn’t get much more painful than this. We finally get two games played and lose both by the tightest of margins. How often do we hear “just one ball, it just takes one ball”? Yesterday both of these balls went the wrong way.

The Firsts were at Arbroath, chasing a fairly modest target of 186, only to lose their last wicket in the last over. Twelve points to Arbroath Utd and only five to us. It leaves us still third in the league, but Stenhousemuir is right behind us with the same number of points.

Meanwhile the Twos were at home to Watsonians Twos. Had we batted out our overs, we might have had these crucial extra runs on the board, but as it was, Watsonians, batting second, just edged it. Second-last ball, I was told.

Next Saturday has the Firsts at home to Drumpellier, the Twos away to Glenrothes.

More to come, though. We are hosting the SCU Trophy Final on Sunday 5th August, between Irvine and either St Modans or Huntly, that semi getting played today, 29th July.

And more! We are hosting the two-day Under 17s International between Scotland and Holland on 9th and 10th of August. Get along to Freuchie Pleasure Park and enjoy the cricket!

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MATCH ANALYSIS

On a day when summer returned, Freuchie’s U15 side travelled to Scroggie Park to face their old rivals Falkland. Both sides were under strength due to the holidays, but produced a cracking game with Freuchie looking comfortable winners, well until the last 5 overs when the runs dried up!

Falkland batted first and struggled to a total of 73 with top scorer being T Syed who retired on 32. Best Freuchie bowlers were Fergus Black (4ov-4-runs-1w), Alastair Brett (4ov-8runs-1w), Robbie Wright (4ov-10runs), Shane Munro (3ov-10runs-1w). Shane Munro also took a great catch to remove Meikle and a great bit of fielding resulted in a run out.

Freuchie’s batting started well with Fergus Black quickly reaching 13 until he was bowled by Westland. Freuchie’s batsman kept looking to build a partnership, but every the self destruct button seemed to be pushed with 4 runouts. Only Robbie Wright, who scored 23 before being caught, batted well. Next top scorer was Edward Wade with 5 runs. Freuchie only needed 15 runs with 5 overs to go, but sadly runs were in short supply and we were bowled out with 4 balls to spare.

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