May 19th, 2013 | by Angus Bell | published in 2013, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Brossard Warriors Saturday 18 May 2013 The Candy Fields, Mont-Saint-Hilaire Match type: 45 overs per side (11 wickets) Weather conditions: Alarmingly dry Result: Warriors won by 8 wickets Pirates of the St Lawrence Innings Extras 33 (Byes 1, Leg Byes 1, No Balls 5, Wides 26) Total 105 for [...]
May 12th, 2013 | by Angus Bell | published in 2013, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Bengal United Sunday 12 May 2013 By Vish Takes a Swish A comprehensive 7-wicket win for Bengal United set their cricket season in the right tone despite losing closely to Pirates last Sunday. With a disciplined bowling effort, especially from Mahfuz who took 5-16, and astute bowling changes aided [...]
May 12th, 2013 | by Angus Bell | published in 2013, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus South Star Saturday 11 May 2013 Match report by Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) to follow… Pirates of the St Lawrence versus South Star Saturday 11 May 2013 The Candy Fields, Mont-Saint-Hilaire Match type: 45 overs per side (11 wickets) Weather conditions: Poseidon Adventure Result: Pirates of the [...]
May 9th, 2013 | by Angus Bell | published in 2013, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Bengal United Sunday 5 May 2013 By Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) A thrilling one-wicket win by the Pirates over Bengal United announced the arrival of a new phenomenon — the competitive social cricket match. Definitive steps were taken in this direction by Pirates’ skipper Robinson, whose tactical [...]
May 9th, 2013 | by Angus Bell | published in 2013, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Cosmopolitans: A Trinidadian XI Saturday 4 May 2013 By Even Stephen For a first game of the season, The Candy Fields offered the perfect setting: spring foliage, sunshine, friendly faces, cold beers and Trinidadian accents. Some cracking groundwork ensured net practice, shade and a rock solid pitch to get [...]
December 22nd, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Relive the highs and highs of season 2012!
November 24th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
2012 Results Played: 29 Won: 13 Lost: 14 Abandoned due to weather: 2 Cancelled: 4 Saturday 21 January – Snow Cricket World Cup – McTavish Reservoir, downtown Montreal – won by England Sunday 22 April – Bengal United – The Candy Fields, Mont-Saint-Hilaire – cancelled due to snow Saturday 28 April – Cosmopolitans: A Trinidadian [...]
October 14th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus South Star Saturday 13 October 2012 By the Dublin Death Star Photo by Mehul Vadher In their final game of the 2012 season, Pirates of the St Lawrence ran out comfortable winners against South Star. A scorching 159-run partnership between Brad Smith and Manoj Mridha, on an otherwise chilly [...]
September 30th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence vs Sukhdeo’s Select: A Guyanese XI Saturday 29 September 2012 By Aunt Fannie Photo by Mehul Vadher Sukhdeo’s Select triumphed by 2 wickets against Pirates of the St Lawrence on Sunday in a soggy, vodka-fuelled thriller played amidst glorious fall foliage. An unbeaten 178-run partnership between Angus Bell and Richard [...]
September 24th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Montreal Caribbean Social Organisation Sunday 23 September 2012 By Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) Pirates of the St Lawrence left behind the gloom of the previous day’s loss against Brossard Warriors and embarked on their encounter against Montreal Caribbean Social Organisation (MCSO) with renewed vigour. After all, they [...]
September 22nd, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Brossard Warriors Saturday 22 September 2012 By Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) It was a match set in conditions suitably proportionate to the heartbreak experienced by the Pirates at the end of the day. It was a day of wind, darkness, and moisture, not merely in the ether, [...]
September 17th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus South Star Sunday 16 September 2012 By Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) Despite what the headline says, the performance of the Pirates against the South Stars may be more accurately likened to comets. Fuelled by a tail composed purely of flatulence, and powered by a ring-a-ring-o’roses, the Mont-St-Hilaire [...]
September 10th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus The Nowrang Gang: Pupa Nowrang Memorial Match Saturday 8 September 2012 By Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) Photo by Mehul Vadher It was a match that had all the elements of a Caribbean encounter. Dark clouds were looming, and a downpour of Hurricane Patty proportions threatened the teams [...]
September 4th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Brossard Warriors Monday 3 September 2012 Warriors won by 3 wickets (12-wicket game) By the Copenhagen Crippler with additional commentary by Jock Strap Photos by Jeremy Patterson and Mehul Vadher On a stifling hot Labour Day Pirates of the St Lawrence hosted Brossard Warriors in a match of 40 [...]
September 2nd, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Bengal United Saturday 1 September 2012 By Neville Cardus (channeling through Prashant Bhawalkar) In a match featuring more than 600 runs, which was sufficiently thrilling to result in many bitten knuckles, two Canadians were among the heroes. The first of these was the elegant and destructive Bruce Maxwell, who [...]
August 26th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus South Star Saturday 25 August 2012 By Lord Legless So back to the Candy Fields came South Star for their second visit and, as with the first time, joining them was the star of our solar system, the Sun. And once again, it came blazing. Hot, you ask? The [...]
August 19th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Mad Dogs of New York Sunday 19 August 2012 By Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) Having spent Saturday night licking their wounds, the Mad Dogs of New York — pronounced Maed Dwaugs of Noo Yoahk — returned on Sunday with a renewed vigour. Gnashing their teeth, they gave [...]
August 19th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Mad Dogs of New York Saturday 18 August 2012 By the Dublin Death Star Pirates of the St Lawrence needed a run out in the final over to seal a tense win against Mad Dogs of New York. After setting the visitors 213 to win, the Black Caps looked [...]
August 13th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus New Edinburgh of Ottawa Saturday 11 August 2012 By the Dublin Death Star Photo by Brian Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd Scorching sun made way for a downpour of biblical proportions during the Pirates’ encounter with New Edinburgh of Ottawa. The Black Caps performed admirably to restrict the visitors to 243, but the [...]
August 6th, 2012 | by Angus Bell | published in 2012, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus St Columbas of Rhode Island Sunday 5 August 2012 By the Dublin Death Star Pirates of the St Lawrence were on the wrong side of a comprehensive drubbing at the hands of St Columbas of Rhode Island on Sunday. Despite a defiant half-century from debutant Sameer Malhotra, the home [...]