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End of Season Presentation photos

Check out the 'cray-zee' end of season meeting photos, strangely enough, in the Photo Gallery.

I believe Colin has a limited number of individual trophies which will provided based on number of appearances.... or something - see colin for info.

Cup run ended

As you will probably have seen / heard by now, the season ended with defeat against a strong Kirkwood side comprising several Cowgate first team players.

Having lost the toss skipper Miller was asked to bowl. We weren't too unhappy about this given the 'interesting' state of the wicket. Sure enough Paddy bowled an inspired spell, taking a wicket with Choudry caught behind from the first legitimate delivery.

Joe managed to keep the pressure on from the other end, enabling Paddy to keep cutting through the top order, as Paddy got an LBW and removed the remaining opener's off stump. Ed Lord then got in the act pounching from midwicket to run out the non-striker. 22-4 and the Division 1 high fliers were in real trouble.

The middle order proceeded to consolidate and they started to put real pressure on the civil's fielders with some excellent running bewteen the wickets. Steve Foster and Barry bowled out the innings, taking two wickets a piece and another run out, but Kirkwood would have been happy to recover to 120 odd for 9.

The reply began steadily at around 7 an over with Henry and Colin knocking the ball into the gaps and putting away the (very rare) bad ball. The score had reached 35-0 before the introduction of Choudry was to take the game away from us very quickly.

Henry was lucky to avoid being stumped from the first ball he faced from the experienced bowler after an ill-advised charge down the wicket. Unfortunately, he then chose to to the same, second ball and was not so lucky.

The light was now fading fast and coupled with some excellent bowling, it was difficult to get the ball away, even for the established batsman.

Duncan smacked his second back for 4 but was adjudged (perhaps harshly) LBW next ball. A clattering of wickets followed and the required rate some became impossible. Hansie and Luke went for nowt, but by this stage they were on a hiding to nothing. Colin stayed there to the end to finish 37*, but it wasn't to be. Choudry finished with m-o-m figures of 5-18 from 4 overs.

Despite the disappointment, it was a great effort to get as far as we did and congratulations to everyone who took part in a successful midweek season.

Champions!!

A magnificent season was cemented last night with the Civil Service earning an outstanding victory over much-fancied Cumberland Partners, and with it the Division 3 Chamionship.

Vice-skipper Johns won the toss on a gloomy evening and had no hestiation in batting first. Openers Ward and Lord got us off to a positive start, with the ball increasingly disappearing over the boundary. Giles made the breakthrough removing Colin for a brisk 23.

Duncan strode to the wicket with a decent platform on which to build. The Cumberland bowlers were perhaps a touch guilty of trying to bowl too fast and consequently too short, feeding the strengths in Duncan's game.

The dashing South African (i'm talking about his batting here) continued to be ably supported by Ed who gave him the stike as much ss possible and watched as the ball kept disppearing a longway over the outfield.

The rate was soon in excess of 10 an over and Duncan moved on to yet another half century. The hundred partnership was completed and it was looking as though Dunc's hundred could be on, until a fairly tight LBW went against him for 79.

Ed batted out much of the remainder of the innings for an excellent 37 and two or three more wickets fell at the end of the innings to leave us ona formidable 156-5.

Don and Barry opened with some full, hostile bowling, ensuring that the opposition didn't get away to a flyer. Don (2-8) took a couple of quick wickets with an excellent catch from Martin over his head at mid off, allowing Joe (3-19) and Neil (2-29) to clean up the middle order.

With the gloom descending and increasingly heavy rain, the rush was on to get the game finished quickly. Steve (1-5) bowled what turned out to be the lastover with two run outs from the first three balls, before another catch was skied to Luke at extra cover. 86 all out.

With that, our best result of the season (10 points) and the championship assured!

Thanks to all who have taken part and contributed to such a successful season.

Loss

Eh, Kingstonians got loads. Mullers and Paddy bowled quite tightly, Laingers got some tap. He redeemed himself with some slogging on the batting front and Ed Lord got 30 odd but we got beaten.

Cheers

Title Beckons With Victory

The Civil Service entertained Merz and Maclellan at Blue Flames on Thursday night. The wicket looked nice and brown but Miller won the toss and inserted the opposition with an agreed 16 over a piece match in the offing.

Fox opened the bowling and used all his cunning to bowl exceptionally tightly, the openers struggling to get him off the square. He was backed up excellently by Rhodes at the other end and it soon became apparent that the a score over 100 would require a good effort. The tight line and length eventually got Fox a wicket caught behind.

A double bowling change gave opportunities to Naylor and Johns and the latter struck with his first ball, bowling a bemused Mallabar for 11. The Civil Service fieldsmen's initial delight was quickly tempered by the realisation that they would be treated to several accounts of the wicket after the game by 'golden arm' Johns. Johns quickly followed this up with another wicket, having Madsen caught behind.

Hearty and Hale came on to finish the innings bowling and the opposition managed to score at a more swift rate despite Hearty grabbing a couple of later wickets. The Civil Service were left to chase 95 in 16 8 ball overs.

The reply began unfortunately with Ferguson finding third man with a cut shot off the bouncy Blue Flame wicket.

This brought Hale to the crease who quickly began scoring with some nice shots all round the wicket. He was ably supported by Moore who characteristically nudged quick singles behind square on both sides.

Moore was eventually given out LBW for 14 which brought Dejager to the wicket in the hope of some batting fireworks. Alas, the wrong 'Hansie' turned up and after some trademark comedy running he was bowled with only 10 runs required. Miller and Hale saw these through easily and with another victory on the board, the coveted division 3 title is almost within reach.