Leith Franklin Academicals Beige Cricket Club

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Owing to the tight, tight, censorship laws imposed upon our website and the fact that our editor shares the second name of a notorious 70’s British serial killer, Mr Easton - Ellis is ‘reluctant’ to fashion a report on the 2’s league game against Heriots. However the subsequent ’slaughter of the innocents’ of eight innocent cricketing babes versus Morton did interest him highly - though I had to dissuade him - as that information should not really be released to the general public public. So as a result both are to be published late in 2009 in nursery rhyme format by either Madonna or Sarah Ferguson late wife of HRH Andrew known to many of you as simply The Duke of York.

However… moving along Points, mean prizes, and therefore Bilson 3 - plenty of runs again, and a passable wicket keeping performance against all the odds of poor diet and heavy drinking. John Watt 2 points for a fantastically clinical opening partnership. A completely studious opening stance looking at deliveries and their possible scoring opportunities like a man searching through his bank account details looking to make sure no unnecessary standing orders (To cricket clubs or otherwise) were leaving or arriving and therefore ensuring a safe solid base for those ‘close’. Add to this a blistering opening bowling spell (2 for one off three) and some may be wondering, indeed spluttering, just why he has been rewarded in binary rather than hat trick point format. The answer however is a lot more simple than the game of cricket itself. To use an old catchphrase “You have to be in it to win it” And, unfortunately an old ankle injury was to rear it’s ugly head and deny Mr J Watt the full three points of which he was surely on his way to. Though history has it’s close run things and as Auden informed us “It’s one thing to have a hand on the trophy - but quite another to actually lift it.” For the other side of that opening batting partnership, one certain Mr Archibald Adolf Robert Saul Linklater gains a point for an inspiring 24 runs and a hairstyle that many thought might be well out of control by this stage - yet because of a deliberate coitus between ‘relaxed stance’ and ‘old fashioned narcissim’ the hairstyle remains intact and it is you and I - the viewers that gain. Well done Linkey and well done John Pugh (Pugster) for steping into the injured Mr Watt’s shoes donning Watty’ss sweater (if not his industrious pace bowling) and manfully seeing out the remaining overs.

Other highlights ought to be mentioned but as candle comes close to base, and the feeling that maybe there are other things in life, all that remains for your narrator is to hand over the intimate details…

Leith 2’s won toss chose to bat
121 all out
Batting
P. Bilson 42, E. Methane 15, The Wall 0*
Bowling
Watt 2-1-3
Harper 1 - 10 - 9
Ben e ling 0 - 15 - 8

Dear all…
This may not be exactly right as don’t have score book, but I guess there are other things in life and my god, that candle is getting distinctly close to base.

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Oh and yes we lost be three wickets