The End of Month Lunch Club got into the spirit of fundraising for the Clubhouse defibrillator and raised an amazing £108 towards the cost last Friday!
The theme of the day was Royal Wedding, wear something red, white and blue and / or a hat… as you can see with our photograph, everyone made such an effort and thoroughly enjoyed the day.
AUSTRALIA BRANCH ANNUAL REPORT : 2018
Our Annual Lunch was held on Tuesday 1st May 2018. The venue was Long Reef Golf Club, our usual location on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and the weather was, as always, perfect. The attendees were Ian Anderstrem, Nick Crombie, Ron Gardiner, Sandy Hinshelwood, and myself. We greatly appreciated Ron Gardiner travelling from Brisbane for our annual lunch.
All Stars Cricket started again on Friday 4 May at Inverleith.
The Club now has 83 boys and girls registered and this is the highest for any Club in Scotland
Budding stars of the future?
Edinburgh South / Stewart’s Melville 191-5 (K Fraser 68no, K Whyte 55, I Lowry 14no, C Holland 13) Watsonians 51-8
On a glorious day at Inch Park the home side were a bit too strong for a plucky Watsonians X1.
Kathryn White and Catherine Holland put together a match winning opening stand of 68 and from then on it was really a question of how big a total could be obtained in the 30 overs. Katherine Fraser cashed in against the tiring bowlers with a sparkling 68 containing several boundaries and good contributions from Iona Lowry and Chloe Kiely helped us reach 191-5 in 30 overs.
In reply a nice catch by Emma Phipps off the bowling of Jessica Shaw dismissed Fettes girl Catherine Edwards and the remaining Watsonians batters found it tough against a very fine bowling attack. A 140 run victory was pleasing but sterner tasks lie ahead. That said I think it would have taken a good side to lower our colours on the day. It was really good to hear the thoughts on the match from our adult players and how impressed they were with our youngsters.
Catherine Holland had a fine all round game. Batting for almost an hour with Kathryn White was great experience for her and she showed no little skill in her fine innings. In addition Catherine bowled a couple of good overs and took a nice catch. As previously stated Jessica Shaw has a really bright future if she wishes. Her game awareness is good and she was the best bowler on show all day. Emma Phipps bowled 4 overs and bar 3 or 4 balls was excellent. Emma is a great member of the team and the older girls love her competitiveness.
It was a shame Emma’s mum Barbara didn’t bat as I think that will be her forte. Her enthusiasm in the field is also a great assett. Vailas Wrench also bowled 4 overs and gave very few runs away. Vaila has a really good action and will only improve. In her favour everyone loves a leftie in their bowling attack. It would be churlish to ignore the performances of Katherine Fraser and Chloe Kiely. Katherine is already a very fine all round cricketer at such a young age and Chloe is an automatic pick for our team.
Thanks to Kathryn, Hannah, Louise and Barbara for being so positive with the younger players and making our opening game in the Premier League so much fun.
The 1st X1 took on last year’s League Champions Heriot’s on Saturday at Inverleith in the East Premier League. Heriot’s won the toss and chose to bat.
After 33 overs the visitors were 93 for 5 having lost all their top order bats including star import Hayes van der Berg for 1 caught behind first ball of the second over bowled by Tom Hilton. Tom finished with 5 for 50 off 9 overs while Greg Ruthven in helpful conditions for his spin took 2 for 31 off ten overs and Hayden Sweet 1 for 33 off 9 overs. Pro Shaylen Pillay was our most economical bowler with 0 for 26 off 10 overs. Remarkably Stew Mel in their reply had exactly the same score after 33 overs having recovered from the loss of four early wickets with Kris Steel (37) and Mikey Miller (46) plus extras (20) contributing the bulk of the runs. The strength of Heriot’s lower order told however achieving a final score of 214 for 9 while Stew Mel subsided to 118 all out in the 43rd over.
The positive was seeing Mikey Miller among the runs again. In Heriot’s innings Ryan Brown top scored at no 6 with 51 off 69 balls and was well supported by no 7, ex Edinburgh CC player, Qasim Ashraf with 18 off 31 balls and no 8 Sean Weeraratna with 22 off 14 balls. Our former player Elliot Ruthven was listed no 11 for Heriot’s and didn’t get in. There was no equivalent late order boost to the scoring from Stew Mel so no points from the first two matches against the two top teams of last year.
Ryden LLP were the sponsors for the day and the tea provided for the teams was great – probably the best feature of the day !