Cricket: Big weekend ahead for APD Dumfries

9 09 2009
Skipper Scott Beveridge will be looking for more big hits this weekend

Skipper Scott Beveridge will be looking for more big hits this weekend

APD Dumfries are back on the road this weekend for their final scheduled cricket of their season and the biggest two matches.

After last week’s postponement the play-off match for promotion to National Division 1 starts in Stirling at high noon on Saturday against Division 1 side Penicuik.

On Sunday they are in Glasgow, at Shawholm, for the rescheduled Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Cup semi-finals and finals. There they compete as Border Champions with the winners from the West, North and the East; respectively Greenock, Dunfermline and a Corstorphine side out for revenge for their absence in Saturday’s play-off. The winner’s cheque is for one thousand pounds making this richest prize in Scottish cricket. APD Dumfries play their semi-final against Greenock at 1pm.

Youth and experience defy the Nunholm weather

The 2009 season is drawing to a close and the first and second elevens are awaiting the outcomes of play-offs to decide their destinations for 2010 – the APD team with their fate within their own control but the JMS XI awaiting what happens elsewhere.

Meanwhile cricket at a less rarefied level took place at Nunholm at the week-end with mixed teams of the proverbial youth and experience taking on Longtown and Hillhead.  Read the rest of this entry »


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Cricket: Scotland Performance Academy for Tommy

9 09 2009

Tommy batting against Netherlands U17s, courtesy of ICC/CricketEurope

Tommy batting against Netherlands U17s, courtesy of ICC/CricketEurope

The club’s Thomas McBride has been awarded a place by Cricket Scotland on the Cricket Performance Course at Telford College in Edinburgh. The programme offers some of Scotland’s best young players the opportunity to train full-time while remaining in further education.

He joined the other five other full time and two part-time attendees when the course started last week. They include recent Scotland internationals Matthew Parker and Marc Petrie, who kept wicket against Australia two weeks ago. He also joins some of Scotland’s aspiring skiers and rugby players as they attend the corresponding performance courses for their respective sports.

McBride, who played for Scotland U17s and Scotland U19s this year, will receive skills and fitness training and course work in sports science together with a cricketing placement overseas. Last January the group spent three months training and playing in Australia. The likely destination this year is India or Australia.

The former Lockerbie Academy pupil, who was first introduced to the sport thanks to one of the junior cricket taster sessions run by the Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Sports and Leisure Department, has an exciting ‘off-season’ in prospect.


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Squash: Sign up for the winter leagues

9 09 2009

The club’s 09/10 winter leagues start up in October. To sign up add your name to the notice on the club noticeboard. If you are in the summer leagues then you don’t need to do anything unless you want to withdraw.


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