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14 Jan 2012 : Cup Draws for 2012 Season
Over the last few weeks the draws have been made for four out of the five cup competitions in which Edinburgh South play. Our opponents are as follows:

Public Parks Trophy - Round 1 Morton (Away) match to be played by 11th May The winners will be at home to Maccabi)

President's Trophy - Round 1 Musselburgh (Away) match to be played by 21st May

Terry Newcombe Trophy - Round 2. Away to the winners of a tie between Currie & Balerno and Bank of Scotland. That match should be played on or before 18th May and our tie has to be completed by 8th June.

Activcity Trophy - Round 1 Livingston (Home) match to be played by 17th June.

Players in our second, third and fourth elevens will have to contain themselves until the last week in January to find out their opponents in the Presidents' Plate.

The Brunswick Trophy Six-a-Side Tournament is scheduled for the Meadows on Monday 18th June.  

12 Jan 2012 : Free equipment from Sports Balls Shop
Attention all ESCA clubs - Sports Balls Shop are running a fantastic scheme, offering £40 worth of free equipment to clubs.

For more information, visit their website.

Thanks to Stuart and everyone at Sports Balls Shop!

10 Jan 2012 : Fixtures for 2012 announced
The East of Scotland Cricket Association have announced the league fixtures for the 2012 season.

All sides will play an 18 match season, playing each of their nine opponents home and away.  (Division 9 was originally scheduled to have an additional team but Penicuik have decided not to enter a team).  For everyone, the first league match will be on Saturday 28th April, and the final fixture on the 25th of August.

The 1st XI will begin their Division 2 campaign at Kismet, whilst the 2nds will also be playing away in their Division 5 clash with Holy Cross 2nds.

In Division 9, the 3rds begin at home, and will be looking for matchwinners Satki and Tanny to help them reprise their narrow victory over Stirling County on the final day of the 2011 season.  The 4ths make their debut away to Musselburgh.

Full fixture lists are available here for the 1sts, 2nds, 3rds and 4ths.

Please note that the details are subject to change, and some fixtures - especially those in the 3rds and 4ths could be switched to Sunday.  So bear that in mind whilst planning holidays, weddings and so forth.

16 Dec 2011 : Divisions confirmed for 2012
Sorting out the divisions in the East of Scotland league for 2012 has been a complicated task.  New teams have joined, both additional sides from existing clubs, (like our new 4th XI) and from teams in the Borders League.  Meanwhile, the Scottish National Cricket League went through a period of extended uncertainty, in which various forms of restructuring, or even abandonment, were discussed.

The league structure, and our opponents for 2012, have been announced:

DIVISION 2
St Boswells (from the Borders League)
Edinburgh (relegated from the Scottish National Cricket League)
Boroughmuir
Kismet
Westquarter & Redding
Clackmannan County
Freuchie 2nd
Leith FAB
Heriots 2nd (promoted from Division 3)
Edinburgh South (promoted from Division 3)


DIVISION 5
Stirling County 3rd (relegated from Division 4)
Musselburgh 2nd (relegated from Division 4)
Penicuik 2nd (relegated from Division 4)
Edin Acc. 2nd
Murrayfield DAFS 3rd
Watsonian 3rd
Holy Cross 2nd
Preston Village
Edinburgh South 2nd (promoted from Division 6)
Livingston 2nd (promoted from Division 6)


DIVISION 9
Edinburgh South 3rd
Largo 4th
Stirling County 4th
Preston Village 2nd
Broomhall 3rd
Penicuik 3rd (relegated from Division 7 for defaulting on fixtures) UPDATE - no longer participating
Peebles 2nd (relegated from Division 7 for defaulting on fixtures)
Musselburgh 3rd
Edinburgh South 4th (new in 2012)
Morton 3rd (new in 2012)
SMRH 4th (new in 2012)

Clearly, all four sides can look forward to an exciting programme of competitive cricket in 2012!

15 Dec 2011 : Indoor 6s draw - ESCC to play 3rd Feb & 2nd March
The draw for the LiveSportOn.TV ESCA Indoor 6's 2012 has now been made and is shown below:

Group A - 20 January and 17 February
1 Tranent
2 Boroughmuir
3 Holy Cross

Group B  - 27 January and 24 February
1 Morton
2 Edin Schools Academy
3 Carlton

Group C - 3 February and 2 March

1 Fauldhouse
2 Marchmont
3 Edinburgh South

Group D - 10 February and 9 March
1 Edinburgh Accies
2 Musselburgh
3 Glenrothes

The matches will be played on each night as follows:
Team 1 v Team 2 @ 6.30pm
Team 2 v Team 3 @ 7.30pm
Team 1 v Team 3 @ 8.30pm 

The finals night will be Winner Group A v Winner Group C and Winner Group B v Winner Group D then a final to follow.

All fixtures will take place at Liberton High School from 20th January, with finals night to be held on 16th March.

23 Nov 2011 : Christmas Drinks - 10th December
We'll be having our Christmas drinks on Saturday 10th December at the Inch Park Clubhouse, from 7:30pm

They'll be mulled wine and mince pies and a raffle - looking forward to seeing you there!

22 Nov 2011 : Annual General Meeting
Our Annual General Meeting took place today, in a well-attended session at the Inch Park Club house.

Full minutes will be circulated in due course, but highlights included:
  • A review of the highly successful cricket season, with promotion for the first and second XIs
  • Ratifying the new constitution, which creates new positions on the committee including a Mitres secretary, a social convenor, a ground convenor and a junior cricket convenor 
  • The appointment of Dale (Mitres), Calum (Social), Chris (grounds) and Will (junior) to the new positions
  • Paul was appointed as Chairman - a new position that reflects his broad strategic responsibilities;  Bill (President and Secretary) and Pete (Treasurer) were re-appointed.
  • Paul, Asanka and Pete were reappointed as 1st, 2nd and 3rd XI captains, Peter Geoghegan was crowned the captain of the new 4th XI
  • Paul gave updates on developments taking place via Inch Park, including the official opening of the new clubhouse last week, and progress on the new square
  • Winter nets will begin on Sunday 5th February at 1pm-3pm, at Academy Sports Centre, and will run until April 1st.

07 Oct 2011 : East of Scotland Awards Dinner
Today the East of Scotland Cricket Association held their annual awards dinner at Prestonfields Golf Club.  ESCC successes included Durga Rayudu, who collected best bowler in Division 3 awards.  Then 2nd XI collected their trophy for winning Division 6, and their 3rd XI won the fair play award for Division 9.


28 Aug 2011 : End of 2011 Round-up
A great 2011 in the league concluded for ESCC this weekend.

The 1st XI secured a last minute promotion to Division 2 with a win over Falkand 2nds.  This is a remarkable achievement for Paul Reddish's side - for whom promotion seemed extremely unlikely having lost their first three matches.

The 2nds, meanwhile, had already won Division 6.  Asanka's men have been superb this season - only losing twice all year.

The 3rd XI finished their campaign last week.  An odd season saw them winning their first seven fixtures of the season, only to then lose four times in a row.  But the season was rounded off with a close win at Stirling, leading to a creditable 3rd place finish.


(Sakti and Paul put on 39 for the 3rd wicket in the 3rd win over Stirling)

04 Aug 2011 : The 2011 Season Run-In
By Calum Raine

The season is entering its final few weeks, and all three league XIs have - in varying degrees of likelihood - promotion in their sights. Recent speculation regarding a restructuring of the upper echelons of Scottish Cricket suggests that a reversion to a regionalised top level will come in 2013 rather than 2012, meaning that a position in the top two of each respective division will most probably achieve this feat. 

Here’s a breakdown of what needs to happen:

1st XI

With 4 games left, Heriot’s 2XI look likely to take 1st place, playing 4 of the bottom 5 in their run in.  This leaves South at the back of the pack in a three-way fight for 2nd place with Murrayfield DAFS 2XI and Drummond Trinity. While South face Drummond Trinity this weekend, and can overtake them with a win, we rely on a DAFS slip up in one of their remaining matches (Broomhall, Peebles County, West Lothian 2XI and Grange 3XI). With Matthew Chapman’s confidence sky-high on his return from Whore Island Mallorca, don’t bet against us.

2nd XI

A narrow defeat at Goldenacre in week 14 complicates things slightly for South as far as the title push is concerned, but 8 bonus points keeps the sides outside the promotion spots at arm’s length. While promotion is in the 2XI’s own hands as a result of a run in against the mid-table sides (Clackmannan County 2XI, Livingston 2XI, Broomhall 2XI and Dunfermline Wanderers), they require a slip-up by West Lothian 3s in their similar final four fixtures if they want to be eating their cornflakes out of a trophy come September.

3rd XI

A couple of disappointing results in weeks 12 and 13 have made things difficult in the basement. The three-way dogfight at the top is sorting itself out now we’ve reached the business end of the season, and South are left needing to win all three remaining fixtures (Tranent(A), Dalgety Bay(A) and Stirling 4XI(A) to have a chance of winning the division. Even then, it may require us to deny Dalgety Bay any bonus points in week 15. However, 2nd position can still be won with a number of combinations of results. Most importantly, a win on the Meadows v Tranent would bring Division 8 under serious threat of a 2012 chat-attack from Pete Kingsley’s boys. The champagne is on ice...