Dumfries Sports Club

Dumfries CC - Alan Davidson

Dumfries 1st XI player Alan Davidson notched up his first Australian fifty for 2009 at the weekend by scoring 68 for Wallsend in their Newcastle District second grade match on Saturday.

Meanwhile Dumfries Cricket Club have drawn another away tie in the 2009 Scottish Cup. However with the first round split into West and East regions to reduce travelling they will play fellow National League Second Division side Prestwick.

The match is on Sunday June 21st but APD Dumfries will get a chance to size up their opposition since they also play Prestwick at home in the league the day before.

However Dumfries have been given a home National 20/20 cup tie with a game against St Boswells at a date yet to be arranged. As semi-finalists last year they will be aiming to repeat a trip to the Final’s day in Glasgow.

Their 2009 National League campaign starts on Saturday May 2nd with a home game at Nunholm against Weirs.

The Dumfries second eleven, JMS Nunholm, have also discovered their league opponents (shown below) after the make-up for Western Union Division 2 was resolved this week. Further information about the club can be found at www.dumfriescricketclub.co.uk . Read the rest of this entry »

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 »