Relive the highs and highs of season 2012!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pirates of the St Lawrence versus St Columbas of Rhode Island Saturday 4 August 2012 by Neville Cardus (channelling through Prashant Bhawalkar) Photo by Brian Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd Under cover of a sunny sky, pelting all life beneath it with extreme heat and humidity, Pirates of the St Lawrence were made to run to all corners of [...]

Pirates of the St Lawrence versus West Island Sailors Saturday 29 July 2012 by the Dublin Death Star Despite a magnificent maiden hundred from Richard Horne, Pirates of the St Lawrence were narrowly beaten by West Island Sailors on Saturday. Set 234 to win, the Sailors chased down the total with only two balls to [...]

Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Brossard Warriors Saturday 21 July 2012 by Jock Strap A brave performance by new-kids-on-the-block Brossard Warriors made for a thrilling encounter at The Candy Fields on Saturday. Assembled between Wednesday teatime and Thursday lunch via feverish text messages, the debutants – the latest in a plethora of teams to [...]

Pirates of the St Lawrence versus South Star Sunday 15 July 2012 by Lord Legless Photo by Kat Roche The Pirates record-breaking record-breaking season (that is, the season which breaks the record for the most records broken) continued this Saturday as new faces South Star graced The Candy Fields with their first visit. The day [...]

Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Sukhdeo’s Select: A Guyanese XI Saturday 7 July 2012 Tez Says… Photo by Kat Roche Centurian Phil Roche and wicketkeeper Eddie Palmer combined for an unbeaten stand of 98 as they steered Pirates of St Lawrence to a comfortable victory over Sukhedo’s Select: A Guyanese XI. After being set [...]