Freuchie Cricket Club's grand Centenary Dinner and Dance is well and truly over.

If we would maybe have been happy to sell a few more tickets, we had a very respectable turnout and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Bill "Faff" McFarlane of Rossie Priory Cricket Club kept up his high standards as MC while President Alan Duncan had plenty to say about his fellow players, but the star was undoubtedly our principal speaker, Bill "Bearded Wonder" Frindall, of BBC's Test Match Special team. His tales of life in the commentary box and players and commentators past and present were a joy for all, perhaps especially for those of us who used to listen spellbound to the lugubrious tones of John Arlott.

Pleasing, too, to report that the event was well supported by our players, with visiting luminaries of Scottish Cricket to add even more to the occasion. The Lomond Hills Hotel made sure we were well fed and watered, the band "Rough Diamond" that we got plenty of exercise to keep us thirsty, while John Thomson of Roundtrip Solutions Ltd. provided some photographic records.

Bill had presented us with a signed limited edition of his circular chart of Brian Lara's famous 400 not out against England - an unlikely-to be repeated event, captured here in elegantly succinct form. This was auctioned by Bill himself, raising £100 for club funds.

Our sincere thanks to Bill, to Faff, to Ronnie the hotel, to John T, to the band and to all the people who made this a memorable evening.