Centenary Sunday - 21st June

[barrowboy]

Next Sunday, 21st June will see the club celebrate its centenary. The forerunner in name terms of the club London Road CC was founded in 1909.

In the afternoon a 1st/2nds select will play an East President's XI whilst on the artificial wicket a 3rds/4ths select will play Morton.

Obviously we would like to turn out two strong teams for an afternoon of good cricket and fun.

Please tell your skipper of your availability or let me know - text 0774 927 7066 or e-mail [e-mail]

[pawbroon]

Celebrity (or comedy) opening bowler:
El President where after he will adjourn to the hospitality tent (wishful thinking) to schmooze the local dignitaries.

The squad of players currently definate are:
Tom Wheeler
Ian Shiels
Phil Hawkins
Luke Hayes
Siva Sivasamy
Chris West
Heath Batwell
Paul Leonard
Chris Brown
Charlotte Bascombe
David Clifford
Stuart Coull
Abdul Reyaz
Anand Venkatesh
Drew Barker

With the following possibles:
Graham Watson
Owen Kelly
Paul Hubbard
Rajnish Singh
Asif
JP CR
Regan Black

Please let one of the skippers know as soon as you can confirm or wish to register your interest.

[wheels]

Quick update on this:

Raja is not actually available - communication breakdown there somewhere, apologies - and Regan is not sure if he can play but is keen to if possible.

Still room for some more so please let your captains know if you're up for a game. And if you're listed to play in error, please let one of us know asap!

Cheers
Tom

[sutha]

Hi Chris
Apologies I am not available for the Centenary sunday game.
Cheers
Sutha

[wheels]

A final call to arms - even if you're not already down to play, please come along to Roseburn for 12.30/1pm and we'll fit you in one of the sides.

No spikes please as a burst water main has left the main square out of commission and the artificial will need to be used. Players in 2nd game ve Morton are likely to decamp to the Gyle for their fixture (also on artificial), but just meet at Roseburn and we'll take it from there.

I'm not updating the thread about Saturday's fixtures and results until I've cheered up a bit - suffice to say the 1s didn't go all that well...

Cheers
Tom

[pawbroon]

A great day was had by all from the kids game in the morning to the 2 adult matches in the afternoon. Far more will follow but some pics can be found here:

www3.truprint.co.uk/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=929920006/a=891007010_24473409/

A login is already created to login using the email address of [e-mail] and the password is centen*** (and i'm sure you can work out what the stars are !!!)

[Mr Belly]

Quick post up of scores of ESCA Select v MDAFS XI. MDAFS won by 1 wicket.

ESCA Select XI:
J Scott ct West bwd Shiels 5
M Tucker bwd Wheeler 21
A Cruickshank run out 41
DJ Allan bwd Hubbard 7 (yes, bowled Hubbard )
S Colvin bwd Batswell 7
G Hopcroft ct Hawkins bwd Batswell 21
A Pirani LBW Batswell 4
R Bhopal NO 16
N Martin C&B Reyaz 21
D Edwards NO 18
C Fox DNB

Total 186 off 40 overs. 25 extras.

Bowling
I Shiels 6-0-26-1
R Singh 5-0-23-0
L Hayes 7-0-16-0
T Wheeler 8-2-24-1
P Hubbard 1-0-8-1
H Batswell 5-0-29-3
A Reyaz 6-0-37-1
P Hawkins 2-0-14-0

MDCC Batting
P Hubbard Ct Allan (wkt) bwd Bhopal 21
P Hawkins Ct Allan bwd Bhopal 2
L Hayes Ct Hopcroft bwd Scott 26
H Batswell Bwd Bhopal 0
A Reyaz Caught Allan bwd Bhopal 0
I Shiels Not Out 55
T Wheeler Run Out 9
Roshan (guest) LBW Pirani 20
C West Bwd Bhopal 23
R Singh NO 11
S Sivasamy Stumped Allan bwd Martin 6

187 for 9 off 39.5 overs. 14 extras.

ESCA Bowling
C Fox 8-1-32-0
R Bhopal 8-1-31-5
J Scott 8-3-16-1
A Pirani 8-0-43-1
N Martin 3.5-0-29-1
G Hopcroft 4-0-33-0

Thanks to all the ESCA select and Jim Brims for organising the ESCA team. And thanks to everyone who made it such a good day - with particular thanks to IJM.