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 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 overs-per-side. A sparkling Daniel Robinson century and […]

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 […]