Scorecard

The Ship Inn, Elie v Forfarshire Cricket Club 1st XI on Sun 08 Jun 2008 at 2pm
Forfarshire Cricket Club Won 4 wickets

Match report
**Match report courtesy of the Ship Inn website**

www.ship-elie.com

Dark clouds at Midday floated away by 2pm to leave Elie Beach bathed in sunshine for our annual match against Forfarshire CC. Unfortunately our new Vice-Captain, Marc Abbott, was not there to appreciate the good weather as he had decided to abandon his post and play golf in Granton instead. He did email to say he had won the McQuistan Perera Invitational Shield but he found that my interest was not mutual. Forfarshire were also handicapped by the fact their 1st XI were called away to play a replay against Ayr in the Scottish Cup. Their handicap did not, however, appear to be too severe as they were still able to field a selection of chaps from the southern hemisphere and the Captain of Scotland!! ‘Ted’ Walker lost the toss and the home side elected to bat.

The Ship batting order saw a new name at its top in the form of Sunday Times Travel writer, Jez Lazell, who clearly felt a long innings coming up as he caked himself in copious amounts of sunblock. His first delivery came from Ryan the Scottish skipper and was struck towards the midwicket boundary. The fielders played ‘dead ants’ by lying on the ground with limbs flailing helplessly in the air, as Ryan was left to do his own fielding which resulted in the fortunate Lazell picking up four runs. Such generosity was in short supply however, as our sunblocked journalist added just one more run to his total before being dismissed, which hopefully left him plenty of time to write a lengthy feature promoting The Ship Inn for next week’s edition. However, the innings was rescued by Frost (21) and Kesterton (30) who put on 44 for the second wicket against some very tight bowling. Walker (4) and Philip D (14) puddle away in a workmanlike manner before the former’s downfall brought Captain Richard to the wicket. Years fell away as Philip R demonstrated a wide variety of strokes such as pulls to midwicket, hooks to midwicket and sweeps to midwicket in hitting three imperious sixes in his innings of 43 not out. The tail failed to wag with any conviction as Keen R (0), Hannah (2), Pillinger (0) and Hodgson (2no) all failed in a rather pathetic manner. Wardlaw (Vice Captain last year) and Milroy were unused at eleven and twelve and the tardy timing of their arrival in Elie before the game just shows how one can become sloppy once the burden of responsibility has been removed. Indeed, as it turned out, neither batted nor bowled during the match and Milroy spent most of the afternoon sunbathing in the outfield gorging himself on the lollipops provided for our child customers. The total of 152 was by far and away our best of the season and there was much optimism and smugness going into tea amongst the home ranks. The Forfarshire bowling was very steady throughout and 152 was undoubtedly a good total.

Tea was a very busy affair with numerous supporters having made the trip from Dundee. I did catch a glimpse of some scotch eggs which were a new addition to the tea menu for this season. There were some strawberry meringues which looked good from a distance but the effort involved in getting close to them meant I left that particular avenue of pleasure to others. The halftime rolling duties were led by Ex-Vice Wardlaw in the absence of Abbott, and these seemed to be performed satisfactorily although it did seem to take an inordinate amount of people to remove the roller from the beach.

In reply, Forfarshire were in early trouble at 8 for 2 after Petrie (0) had been run out without facing and Walker had clean bowled last week’s centurion, Weed. Pressure was kept on for some time as Fearn (45) and Stewart (46) took time to cope with beach conditions and some tight bowling from Pillinger and Walker. Alas, it was not to last, for when Kesterton (expensive) and Hodgson (extremely expensive) came on, the quality of bowling dropped quite dramatically. Kesterton had clearly decided the pitch was not to his liking and bowled a series of full tosses down leg side. Hodgson’s collapse was even more dramatic and his bowling became so pathetic that fielders were actually offering him encouragement!! He seemed incapable of getting the ball from one end of the wicket to the other, and those that did actually get there reminded me of the title of the recently promoted porn film “Mission to Uranus”. His three overs went for 40 runs and by the time Philip R clean bowled the fifth batsman to become the highest wicket taker in Ship CC history, the game was gone.

Warren (33), the South African pro, and Watson (13no) smashed the remainder of the bowling to all parts as the tide fast approached, and the former had the temerity to hit Captain Richard for six into the Beer Garden thereby winning himself a bottle of Australian fizz in the process. Forfarshire romped home, rather embarrassingly, in under 18 overs. Wardlaw took the last two wickets of the Grange innings two weeks ago off the last two balls of the innings, but he will now have to wait a further fortnight before he finally delivers his hat-trick ball.

Dean won the Belhaven Fleece and Polo shirt for his Man of the Match performance and thereafter endless games of chance and skill were played on the beach under Ted walker’s watchful eye. The Ship Inn return to action on the beach against a star studded Caledonian Brewery XI at the earlier time of 12.30pm on Sunday 22 June.


The Ship Inn, Elie Batting
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
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152 (0.0 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Forfarshire Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

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Forfarshire Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
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for 6 wickets
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153		        
Gordon Walker  
Warren Hayward  
Dennis Petrie  
Tony Weed  
Graeme Black  
Dean Fearn  
Andrew Dalton  
Barry Stewart  
Neil Martin  
James Girolami  
Ryan Watson  

The Ship Inn, Elie Bowling

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