Leith Franklin Academicals Beige Cricket Club

Twas  a dark rumbling rolling reticent sky that greeted the warriors as they crossed the mightly juncture that bound the great chasm between the Lothian and the dark dank fetid region known as fyfe. Folowing in the steps of the great one, the one known to us mortals as  byennie,  big byennie of  barnton.  Bold […]

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On a cold and windy day at the Links we stumbled to our second successive victory. Having won the toss and put Westquarter into bat on track no batsman would relish, runs were hard to come by as Mathos and Lawson kept the batsman (and everybody else) guessing. The introduction of Rana (6-21) shook things […]

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These were the words reverberating around the Leith clubhouse on Saturday after the now annual pilgrimage of George ‘The Commander’ Thornton to the links.
Thornton now playing for Peebles County 2nds watched from slip as his side rolled Fab 3rds over for just 49 with no batting performances to speak of. A quick turnaround was taken […]

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Leith’s emerging darts talent Stevie ‘the pressure’ Middleton was in somewhat of a fankle last night after realising he had missed the closing date for entry to the British Classic darts tournament. ‘It’s a right pain in the arse this, I was targetting the Classic as comp where I could boost my world ranking from […]

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Leith Beige’s good performances in midweek cricket have continued as we recorded our fifth consecutive midweek trophy victory, as yet we are unbeaten in midweek cups in 2008.
More impressively the last 2 wins were achieved with players who have not recently been in Leith first eleven.
The first match on June 4 opened the re vamped […]

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