Dumfries Sports Club

On Sunday afternoon a very large branch from one of the trees on the far side of the road north of the ground sheared off and landed on the cricket nets. It also landed on the electrical lines running alongside the road.

The damage to the recently built cricket nets is significant, as can be seen from the photographs. The tree landed on the end section nearest to the clubhouse and fractured and bent the supporting poles. Each of the three lanes has been damaged and that damage runs down the length of the nets with the structure bent and poles knocked out of place or their base in the concrete twisted.

The nets were only completed in the middle of last year thanks to grant support from Awards For All and the local council and were a significant project for the cricket section. It remains to be seen what steps will be needed to restore them to full operation.

This year’s Cricket Annual General Meeting is to be held on Friday 7th November at 7pm, at Nunholm. On the agenda will be reports on the 2008 season, elections for club captains and committee members and votes cast for the players of the year. The club’s cricketers are encouraged to come along and make their views known on how to further progress the club.

Alan Davidson, Richard Rennie heading south for the winter

Just when bats are being thrust away to languish for the winter two young Dumfries CC cricketers are instead packing them for use in Australia. First eleven players Alan Davidson and Richard Rennie are off to experience a season of cricket Oz style.

Alan heads for New South Wales and the Wallsend Tigers club in Newcastle. Dumfries has long standing connections with the club including this season’s skipper Scott Beveridge, and Brett Jackson who starred for Dumfries two seasons ago, both of whom were  Wallsend players, as surprisingly was the current England keeper Tim Ambrose.  Read the rest of this entry »