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Midweek vs Morton

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:03:31 GMT

MDAFS midweekers played the 'Men from Atlantis' at Roseburn and triumphed by 7 wickets chasing 80 off 18 overs. Morton won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Turton and Bell got Morton off to a solid start before Turton is caught by Raj S off Subhash for 10. Bell scores an agressive 23 until caught and bowled by Mr Belly. Banksy bowls Kinghorn for 14 but Morton at 61-3 with 4 overs to go are still handily placed. However a spell of 3-13 off 3 overs by Adeel Raza keeps Morton pegged back despite sound fine and aggressive running (Muffers take note). Morton finish on 80 off their 18 over allocation. MDAFS bowling figures: Tim Mizon 3-0-17-0, Subhash 4-0-17-1 (despite a 3 over per bowler restriction!), JNB an economical and unlucky 3-0-10-0, Mr Belly with 2-0-7-1, Banksy 3-0-13-1, Adeel 3-0-13-3.

MDAFS start steadily but with little exertion at first in the running between the wickets department by Jigar and Raj - in stark contrast with Morton's agressive running (lessons to learn, chaps)! 42 runs are accumulated in increasing tempo until Jigar falls for 26, caught by Farrell off Bell. Raj Sampath retires on a 31 lit up by some excellent straight drives. Adeel (2) and Reyaz (1) also fall to Bell and Nathan respectively but MDAFS are pretty much home and hosed. Anand, 9 not out and Banksy 2 not out see us home in the descending gloom well before the rains could arrive to help our aquatic-cricket specialist opponents.

Bots Beaten

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:02:29 GMT

The turncoats were vanquished in the end as Mufs prevailed over Bots in a midweek clash at a damp Roseburn. MDAFS post 114 off 18 overs with Luke a quickfire 23 retired, Tom and Banksy 20 retired. Bots finish on 86 with Maggy 19 top Bot but stumped Barker bwd Mizon trying to cart it while a single away from the 20 run retirement mark!

League Finale

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:58:32 GMT

And so to the season finale... Ones again in a must-win position to have any chance of survival. We won, in a slightly odd manner as Heriot's conceded on the 30 over (result) mark - just as the rain stops - with us 20 runs away from victory target of 100 but with 6 wickets in hand. We care not and bank the priceless 20 points, and with news of Boroughmuir's capitulation at Largo reaching us, we head to Myreside to see how our old chums/foes Holy Cross were faring against a strong Watsons 2s side, chasing 227. Not well, and it got rapidly worse in front of our eyes in the gloom as Holy Cross fall well short. And so Watsons and Largo keep their heads above ours and despite our late great rally its too little too late and so we find ourselves finishing in the drop zone. There is one final chance, Fauldhouse won the league by the skin of their teeth and play Kelburne in a play-off for promotion to the SNCL. If Fauldhouse win, we are saved as only one team will drop. Fingers crossed for DJ and all at FVCC - the play-off now postponed to Sat 12 Sept at Stirling.

Elsewhere... top marks for Danny and Sherri as they both sign off with centuries. Danny hit 4 huge sixes in his 106 as the Twos ended up on 229-9 off 50 overs, with Adeel with an unbeaten 25 being the next best individual score. The bowlers restricted Preston Village for 175-6 off their 50 overs with 3 wickets taken by Anand. 3s defeated Heriots 3s and poor old 4s endured a trip to Fife to look at a flooded pitch.

And so to the Sat eve... end of season pish-up and farewell to Phil and Cath at Berts... and later on at the Rat Pack Piano Bar. Suffice to say all had a jolly good time and a great send off for Mr and Mrs Claypole. Some piccies will be posted soon!

Thanks to all for their great efforts this year - most of you we will see next year all bright eyed and bushy tailed at indoor nets no doubt if not before (curry nights, socials, the Muftas etc etc) ... for those who are returning abroad then we bid you a fond farewell and I hope you take some great memories of us Muffers with you!

Fauldhouse Loss

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:55:18 GMT

With Kelburn beating Fauldhouse in the SNCL play-off, MDAFS Ones relegation to Division 2 is confirmed. Disappointing indeed, particularly as a final percentage of near 63% would have had us midtable in virtually every other division, but we have no-one to blame but ourselves and so mmust work harder next year to ensure we bounce back up. Winter well, Muffers!