Saturday 13th June

Portgower Place

McCrea FS West 187-7 (35 overs, DR Lockhart 67, A Ellis 66, A Wise 3-26)
Grange 197-5 (33.5 overs, S Moffat 70, GI Maiden 33, G Holmes 32)

Match reduced to 35 overs a side, Grange set a target of 193 in 35 overs

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TheMighty3s ™ beat Drummond Trinity by 3 wickets

Inverleith Park (35 overs due to rain)
 
Drummond 191 for 4
Grange 3s 193 for 7
 
Drummond scored quickly; taking advantage of a bouncy pitch and short boundaries they made an impressive total in their 35 overs. Grange went in to chase and achieved their target with more than two overs to spare.
 
Grant Docherty made an impressive fifty as did Magnus Bray who secured both the victory and his own maiden half century with and on drive to the boundary.  
 
A special mention must go to Krishna Agasthyaraju who went in with two required for victory and, after clipping his first ball down to fine leg, refused an easy second in order to give Magnus the chance to make his fifty. For a few seconds he was less than popular with the bench!

Sunday 14th June

Grange 2nd XI v Freuchie 2nd (h) : Game abandoned

Portgower Place

Grange 282 /7 – Leckie 77, Heathcote 64, Pollok 61
Freuchie 23 /3

Another scorcher but it was to all end in a downpour of tears. After Kaz departed with a touch of the Nick Peet’s, Tim Heathcote and the captain put on another century stand. But it was the debutant Cameron Leckie who smashed his way to 77 out of 109 in just 13 overs (including a rain interruption) supported by Ed DuBoulay with 29. Blaine Powell also impressed with a powerful 25 not out. With dark clouds threatening,  we opened with Mark Enos and an off spinner in Lachlan Young.  The captain had obviously been watching too much wacky 20/20 on TV. But it seemed to work with Freuchie 23 for 3 when the anti-Sunday cricket gods showed their final displeasure. However we march on, retaining our 100% winning record.

Saturday 23rd May

Portgower Place

Grange 209 all out (S Davidson 49, C Coles 38)
Carlton 209-8 (A Wise 3-34)

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Grange 2nd XI v Leith (a) : Grange won by 19 runs

Grange 283 /6 – Hairs 118, Rankin 58 no, Heathcote 30
Leith 264 all out – Thomas 4 for 45

This was a fantastic advert – if you are a batsman – for artificial pitches. With Leith Links unusable, the quick New Field bouncy surface made our five Southern Hemisphere players feel right at home. Tim Heathcote kicked it off and Chris Rankin later made his first Grange half century but, in between, the home grown Ollie Hairs gave a master class in effortless bludgeoning, scoring his 100 in only 77 balls. However, the grim reaper that is the skipper pointed out that when Ollie last got a ton for the 2nds and the team scored 280+, we lost. After 30 overs and early dropped catches, Leith were 195 for 3.  Didn’t look good.  Our opening bowlers had taken big stick but now they wanted revenge. When Michael Thomas took 3 wickets in 6 balls, there was hope.  Having got us going with the bat, Tim Heathcote finished it with a fabulous diving catch down the leg side to cap an excellent display of keeping.  264 runs, no byes.  And a win that didn’t look likely.

TheMighty3s ™ beat Stenhousemuir by 144 runs

Grange 285 for 8 (Nick Peet 111 not out)
Stenhousemuir 141 all out (Ralph Campbell 5 for 11)

Sunday 24th May

President’s Trophy v Leith (h) : Grange won by 15 runs

Grange 213 /8 – Hearn 90, Bray 28
Leith 198 all out – Thomas 4 for 30

Although each side showed four changes from the day before, the pattern was identical.  Again winning the toss and batting, there were 20+ contributions from Magnus Bray, Michael Thomas and Tom Vila, all in the top 6. But the highlight was James Hearn with 90 out of 134 between the 18th and 38th overs to take us from 64 to 198. But was 213 enough ?  An early masterclass in swing bowling from Mark Enos (2 for 21) suggested it would. But bad balls get punished at Grange and, at 160 for 5 in the 29th over in this 40 over format, Leith were nudging ahead until Michael Thomas, just like the previous day, took a flurry of 4 wickets in 7 balls. But their top scorer of 93 marshalled the strike and took Leith to within 15 runs until Gabs Radford, returning after injury, ran him out.  Next round is on Sunday 21st June against Stirling County, again at Grange.  
 

Our junior membership has now reached its maximum and we are unfortunately unable to accept any more new members for this season.

Could all those existing junior members who haven't yet completed their membership renewal form for 2009, and those few new junior members who have been attending training but haven't yet brought their forms in to be processed, please do so at their earliest opportunity.