The Dumfries first team squad start training for the new cricket season on Saturday the 1st March at JMS Nunholm. The new skipper Scott Beveridge is looking for a large squad of committed players for APD Dumfries to have a successful season and contend again for promotion in the Lloyds TSB Scotland National Leagues.
Cricket training starts at Nunholm – Saturday, 1st March
5 02 2008Comments : Comments Off on Cricket training starts at Nunholm – Saturday, 1st March
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In at the Deep End
4 02 2008The mysterious message said “9 o’clock. Saturday morning. Outside the swimming pool”.
This was intriguing. Were the club following the lead of Ana Ivanovic, the Serbian world number 2 tennis player who learnt her game in an out-of-use swimming pool? Were we now going to have the first net of 2008, in the pool?
It was a motley crew that presented themselves at nine o’clock. Some looked like refugees from the Friday night before, some just looked bemused to find that Saturday morning existed, while others had not grasped that Scotland is cold if the puddles are frozen and were standing there ‘metaphorically’ in their t-shirts.
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New West club cricket development officer
18 01 2008Iain Stewart has been appointed as the new Club Development officer in the West of Scotland. He takes over from Tony Judd who took the Cricket Scotland 3-day junior workshop at Nunholm last season. His job is to help clubs (i.e us) in the development of their junior cricket.
Iain is due to attend the next D&G junior cricket development meeting in February. So he may well be visiting the clubhouse in the near future where we will be asking him to support another 3-day workshop in the summer.
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Cricket sponsorship news for 2008
16 01 2008APD (Amber Programmable Design) are to continue to sponsor Dumfries Cricket Club in 2008. So the firsts will remain under the guise of APD Dumfries in their Scottish National League games.
The club also has a new ground sponsor, JMS Cricket. They are the suppliers of the artificial wicket, sightscreens, covers and the new 3-lane nets at the ground. So the club are playing at JMS Nunholm this summer!
Further news on the cricket club website here .
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