Tommy playing for Scotland U17s
Previous matches have included a win over Cumbria and a defeat to Northumberland and this week he has been captaining the side in their game against Shropshire where he led from the front top scoring with 41 in the second innings.
The two match tour concludes with a game against Hertfordshire before the side move on to compete in the European Championships in Northern Ireland at the end of the month.
Congratulation from the club!
Half Century to Dumfries's Alan Davidson
APD Dumfries consolidated their third place in National League Division 2 with a 91 run win over SMRH at Nunholm on Saturday.
The crucial partnership of the match was between opener Alan Davidson and Josh Geary who shared a ninety run partnership taking the score from 58 for 2 to 148 when Davidson was run out for 59.
Two further thirty run partnerships raised the total to 212 for 5. Davidson and Geary pressed on and boosted the final total to 241 for 6. The Dumfries innings was controlled by Geary who finished not out with an excellent 73. Read the rest of this entry »
Primary cricket teams raring to go at Nunholm
Local primary schools have not quite been hearing the smack of leather on willow this summer – more the thump of plastic on plastic.
Along with a team from Galloway and another from Lockerbie, pupils from Collin, Duncow, Georgetown and Noblehill Primary Schools came to Nunholm for a series of Kwik cricket matches between ten teams.
For four Friday evenings in June the teams bowled fast, threw hard and hit big as five games took place simultaneously on the ground. In all there were over sixty young participants who enjoyed their time with bat and ball.
Primary teams in action at Nunholm
Kwik Cricket action at Nunholm
The Collin “A-Team” proved to be the champions – being undefeated in their 8 matches.
There was plenty of enthusiasm and no little skill on show and hopefully some of the primary pupils will have been enthused enough to return to Nunholm for some of the Dumfries Cricket Club weekly junior coaching sessions – which carry on through the summer holidays – on Mondays from 6.15-8pm.
Thanks go to the volunteers who umpired and organised the matches and the teachers and team managers for marshalling their sides.
Nunholm's Rennie and Johnston batting record
It was a day for records at Nunholm on Saturday as Russell Johnston and Richard Rennie took JMS Nunholm to an astonishing score of 346 for the loss of no wickets in 50 overs against Albert Park in Western Union Division 2. Johnston scored 191 not out, his second century of the season and his highest score, and Rennie scored 125 not out, his maiden century for the club.
Andrew Kyle with five wickets and Chris McCutcheon with three avoided the anticlimax of a draw by bowling Albert Park out for 121 in the 34th over to seal an emphatic 225 run win. Read the rest of this entry »
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It was “every run a prisoner” for APD Dumfries in a low scoring encounter at RH Corstorphine in National League Division 2 last Saturday. Unfortunately for the Dumfries side it was their opponents that played the get out of jail free card to claim a 22 run win in a match reduced to 38 overs a side.
The Edinburgh side were asked to bat first in conditions that meant that runs were hard to score. Their opener and professional Mommsen applied himself and reached the highest score of the day, a mere 34. Opening bowler Stuart Alexander bowled a tight spell and when Mommsen was dismissed by Beveridge three wickets were down for 55 off 16 overs. Read the rest of this entry »
APD Ltd directors, John Strong and Elliot Graham, were down at Dumfries Cricket Club last week to mark their continued sponsorship of the club for the 2009 season.
APD Ltd of Newbie sponsors Dumfries in 2009
Elliot Graham of APD said “We are keen to play our part in supporting local clubs and organisations and in particular an energetic community club like Dumfries Cricket Club”.
Rory Fergusson, on behalf of the club said “We are very grateful for the support provided by APD and happy that APD Dumfries has become a name that trips off the tongue locally and in Scottish cricketing circles. Such support is vital for local sports clubs to survive these days with the continued and varied costs now associated with running a club. However we do hope that these rain jackets are not required until the end of the season.”
The photograph shows Club Treasurer, Bob Murray, accepting a cheque from APD’s Elliot Graham and John Strong in the company of secretary Peter Johnstone, vice-chairman Graham Cross and chairman Rory Fergusson.
Jim Patterson, courtesy of CricketEurope
APD Dumfries notched up a convincing win after Prestwick were reduced to 107 all out in their National League Division 2 encounter at Nunholm on Saturday. Chief destroyer was Jim Patterson who in his new role as opening bowler took three wickets.
Dumfries’s Stuart Alexander hit the stumps with the first ball of the match and four wickets fell for just nine runs in the fifties as the heart was ripped out of the Prestwick innings to leave them on 56 for 6.
Prestwick then managed their highest partnership but Jerry Goodin took two wickets and Chris Bellwood also took two to finish the innings off as Prestwick struggled to 107 all out after 37 overs.
Dumfries took just under 18 overs to seal the win. Opener Drew Dawson got 42 and Stuart Corbett-Byers showed that the stand-in captaincy agreed with him as he extended his runs in-office to nearly 250 in three games with 41 not out.
The win means that the Dumfries side stays in second spot but Falkland remain unbeaten in top spot. This Saturday the team are away at third placed RH Corstorphine for whom a win leapfrogs them into second place. Read the rest of this entry »
Byo - doing his sponsors, the Nunholm Card School, proud.
Two Dumfries century makers were not enough to guide their respective sides to victory last Saturday.
Stuart Corbett-Byers played one of the best innings seen for the club as he hit his second consecutive century with 103 for second placed APD Dumfries at leaders Falkland in National League Division 2. However that wasn’t enough in the run chase and the side fell short of the winning target of 258 by 15 runs.
Jim Patterson produced a miserly opening bowling spell and Chris Bellwood and Alan Davidson each chipped in with two wickets. However from 88 for 2 after 30 overs the Falkland batsmen punished anything short or full pitched on a good wicket to amass 257 for 7 twenty overs later with their professional, Thakkar, top scoring with 87.
In comparison, after 30 overs of their innings Dumfries were well positioned on 142 for 2 but Geary was then out for a fine 48 and Corbett-Byers followed just short of the two hundred mark. Sixty plus runs in the last ten overs proved too much for the remaining batsmen against the left-arm spin of Singh and the side were all out in the final over.
This weekend they play Prestwick at home in the league on Saturday and then away in the Scottish Cup on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Byo's cover drive in action, coutesy of CricketEurope
APD Dumfries recorded an important win in National League Division 2 on Saturday by beating Freuchie at Nunholm by a convincing 8 wickets. Stuart Corbett-Byers starred by hitting an excellent unbeaten century as the side successfully chased 198.
This was after Stuart Alexander struck early with two wickets and Chris Bellwood made an impact in the Dumfries bowling attack by taking four wickets for thirty four as Freuchie finished on 198 for 8.
In reply Corbett-Byers (sponsored by the Nunholm Card School) came in with the score on 1 and together with Josh Geary, who finished on 63 not out, finished on exactly 100 not out and saw his side through to a win with 15 overs to spare. This was the club’s first century of the season and the first in the National League since 2006.
The win strengthens the side’s hold on second place. The game this Saturday looks like a crunch encounter when they are away at the leaders Falkland who are currently unbeaten with five wins out of five. Read the rest of this entry »
The DG U13 Cricket League had a top two clash at Nunholm last Sunday when the two sides from the West of the region played out for top spot. The match report can be read here.
This year there is a new initiative for youth cricket in the West with a Western Regional Academy team playing in Western Union Division 1. They play each team, away, once just as the Scotland Under-19s do in the National Premier League.
Gatehouse of Fleet played host to Sunday’s match against Galloway. The club’s Thomas McBride, the WCA captain, top scored for his side with a fifty. The match report for that game can be found here.
Josh: Man of the Match at Edinburgh
APD Dumfries leapfrogged Edinburgh to take their second place spot with a heavy 138 run victory away in Scottish National League Division 2.
Dumfries rattled up their biggest total of the league season by setting a target of 252 for 7. The mainstay of the innings was Josh Geary who compiled an excellent 69 batting at number 4.
The Davidson openers, Davie and Alan, again got the side off to a good start with a 72 run opening partnership. Geary then had useful partnerships with Dawson and skipper Beveridge who scored 30. When he and then Geary were out to make it 224 for 6 a Corbett-Byers cameo boosted the final total to 252. Read the rest of this entry »
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