Dumfries Sports Club

Campbell Potts powers to a century for Site Electrical Dumfries on Sunday

APD Dumfries maintained their unbeaten start in National League Division 2 with a 5 wicket win away at Edinburgh on Saturday to remain top of the table. Man of the match Scott Beveridge contributed with both bat and ball taking three wickets and then scored 45 as Dumfries chased a total of 161.

Dumfries chose to bowl first and, although the opening attack of Robert McBride and Josh Geary bowled rapidly, extras and boundaries gave Edinburgh a good start. Geary, however, achieved the breakthrough having Majeed caught in the tenth over with the score on 47. Read the rest of this entry »

APD Dumfries have a League and Cup weekend at Nunholm with their first home National League Division 2 game against Renfrew this Saturday followed by their Scottish Cup first round match against Division 1 side Poloc on Sunday, also at home,

JMS Nunholm travel to Whitehaugh on Saturday in Western Union Division 2 and Site Electrical Dumfries travel to Gatehouse on Sunday for a local friendly.

Dumfries Juniors go West: Two of the Dumfries juniors figured for West sides last the week with Chris McBride captaining the West District Under-12s against Clydesdale and retiring on 31 including 2 sixes. Niall Alexander played two games for the Western Academy Junior side and bowled well opening the attack with 9 overs 1 for 19 against a very experienced XL Club side.

For those Sports Club juniors thinking about trying cricket this summer there are a couple of opportunities coming up out with the junior cricket which takes place at the club.

There is an Easter Cricket Camp in Dumfries on Tuesday (6th April) and Wednesday (7th April) from 10am to 1:30pm. See here for details. 

And also girls (and mum’s) cricket is starting up in May through the local FitMAD programme. See here for those details.

Tommy batting against Netherlands U17s, courtesy of ICC/CricketEurope

Tom McBride, from Dumfries Cricket Club, is packing his bags to experience cricket in India. Next week he leaves for the Pune Cricket Academy near Mumbai for an intensive twelve day National Academy tour of the sub-continent.

Last year he played for Scotland U17s and Scotland U19s and the 18 year old has spent the winter as one of seven players invited onto Scotland’s Performance Course at Telford College in Edinburgh. He joins those in the National Academy Squad in making up a 15-man party.

The focus will be on training with three games scheduled later in the stay including a planned match against the state U19 side.

Craig Wright, ex-Scotland captain, and now the National Performance Development Manager is one of the coaches travelling. Once in India the group will be under the direction of experienced local coaches well versed in the local conditions.

Wright commented that “the aim is for the batsmen to work on playing spin and for the bowlers to master very different conditions. The expertise at what is a global cricket academy, the facilities available and the experience will stretch their abilities.”

“Tommy has worked really hard on his game over the past months, both on the physical and the technical aspects. He is also benefitting from training with the others in the performance group some of whom gained their first caps for the full Scotland side last year.”

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