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Captain’s Corner

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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24 June 2009 comment TrackBack-URI

Team Selections

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

COMPETITON	1st XI League
DATE	Sat 20th June 2009
FIXTURE	Renfrew Cricket Club
VENUE	King George V Playing Field

R Birrell (Capt)
D Cowan (Snr)
S Gourlay
S Galloway
S Birrell
A Duncan
S Rowley
S Gibson
A Sutherland
J Wallace
D Harper
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.

COMPETITON	2nd XI League
DATE	Sat 20th June 2009
FIXTURE	Leith Cricket Club
VENUE	Freuchie Cricket Ground

S Kennedy (Capt)
A Leckie
D Cowan (Jnr)
R Wright
K Crichton
M Jackson
G Christie
K Khalil
B Forrester
S Munro
I Patterson
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.

COMPETITON	1st XI Scottish Cup
DATE	Sun 21st June 2009
FIXTURE	Dunfermline Knights Cricket Club
VENUE	McKane Park

R Birrell (Capt)
D Cowan (Snr)
S Gourlay
S Galloway
S Birrell
A Duncan
S Rowley
S Gibson
A Sutherland
J Wallace
D Harper
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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18 June 2009 comment TrackBack-URI

Captain’s Corner

Sorry to say we were totally outplayed by Dumfries on Saturday, unfortunately it was the same as most games lost this season, not enough runs on the board and wayward bowling. The scorecard on the Cricket Scotland website says it all! There’s nothing more to say on this subject, we will now look ahead to this Saturday’s game against Weirs, which is a must win as they are currently below us in the league. We had to make a few changes this week again, Stewart Gibson and Alan Duncan make their debut for the 1^st XI this year, we’ve brought them in for their vast experience. Andy Sutherland comes back in after having a good weekend with 2^nd’s last week.

Well done to the 2^nd XI who had another good win again on Saturday against Marchmont. The highlight of the day was Blair Forrester scoring the first century for the club this season. Keep up the good work lads.

They play Grange this week which will be another tough challenge for them, but once again they have a very strong side to travel to Edinburgh.

And finally, well done to the Under 11’s who beat Dunfermline last night. They played very well with all of them contributing to the win. Friday nights coaching is really starting to pay off and we are noticing a great improvement in the kids.

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11 June 2009 comment TrackBack-URI

U13s Rescheduled Cup Match

Our wonderful Scottish weather got the better of the U13 Scottish Cup match last Tuesday. Fingers crossed the weather is better this coming week for the rescheduled match – details below.