Dumfries Sports Club

Davidsons were to the fore at the recent Dumfries Cricket Club Awards night for the 2015 season.

Alan Davidson claimed the McKerrow Trophy for the 1st XI Player of the Year as well as the Player’s Player of the Year, as voted for by his teammates during the season. Davie Davidson was the 2nd XI Player of the Year and took the Jimmy Steele Bowling award.

Davie and Al clutch their Awards

Alan Davidson earned the plaudits after his all-round performances in the Western Premier League.

He was the top wicket taker for Stafforce Dumfries with twenty seven wickets, including one match winning performance of 7 wickets for 40 against Ayr.

Opening the batting the left-hander was also the side’s second top run taker in a productive season as his side finished fifth.

Davie Davidson was the batting stalwart for the 2nd XI as Nunholm’s top run scorer in Western Premier Reserve League as they finished sixth. He achieved a batting average of just under fifty, and was also the second top scorer in the league as a whole.

Sue and Katy – the Female Players of the Year

That contribution was added to by his bowling efforts, which included figures of 8 wickets for 20 at Bothwell.

That day’s performance won him the Club’s bowling award, on the same day as two Dumfries league centuries, one from Scott Beveridge at home against Uddingston and one by Russell Johnston in the Bothwell match.

The Women’s Player of the Year was Sue Strachan, and the award for Most Improved Female Player, The Strachan Cup, went to one of the Club’s juniors, Katy Anderson.

Ronan was Young Player of the Year

Ronan Dunbar was the Young Player of the Year after he appeared regularly for the firsts and finished as one of the Western Premier’s top fielders with five run-outs. That plus his catches meant he helped to take the vital wickets of several professionals over the course of the season.

He, along with other youth players from the Dumfries Colts, Callum Reynolds-Lewis, Rory Thornely-Kyle, Cammy Walker, William Black, Chris McBride and Jack, Matthew and Tom Currie, were awarded Runners-Up medals for their efforts in reaching the Midweek Cup Final, as was Josh Forsyth for setting the example for his fellow Colts.

The AGM for Dumfries Cricket Club takes place this Friday, the 13th November, at Nunholm, commencing at 6:30pm.

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Stafforce Recruitment Dumfries lost their final Western Premier match by five wickets away at Clydesdale, who were crowned league winners last week, to finish fifth in the table.

Asked to bat first, Dumfries got off to a great start at 93 for no wicket thanks to a fine innings of 60 from Stuart Corbett-Byers and 25 from Drew Dawson. However a match winning performance by Scotland off-spinner, and Clydesdale skipper, Majid Haq then brought Dumfries down to 156 all out as he bowled an excellent spell to take 8 wickets for just 20 runs off 15 overs.

In reply Clydesdale were 64 for 3 thanks to two wickets from spinner Scott Beveridge and an lbw from Alan Davidson. However opener Haq, again, contributed 48, until run out by a brilliant direct hit from Chris Bellwood, and then Page with 60 not out saw the home side through to a five wicket win. The Nunholm players voted keeper Stuart Corbett-Byers as the Dumfries Lakeland Fluid Power Man of the Match for his top score effort but Haq was definitely the game’s Man of the Match on the day he lifted the league trophy for his side.

Saturday’s Nunholm team versus Titwood

In the parallel match in the Western Premier Reserve League the home side Nunholm gave Clydesdale 2nds, Titwood, a fright with the visitors needing a win to claim the Reserve league title also. That was despite a below par Nunholm total of 87 with Davie Davidson the top scorer with 38. A good bowling and fielding effort in the field by Nunholm then had their opponents 7 wickets down for 66. However the eighth wicket pair edged Titwood over the line with the WEB Engineering Nunholm Man of the Match, Stuart Alexander, taking four of the wickets to fall.

With no league fixtures this weekend it is only sixteen year old Chris McBride of the Dumfries players who still has league commitments, for Durham Cricket Academy in the North-East Premier League, after he shared in a 63 run opening partnership in their match last Saturday.

During the week Dumfries U12s won a well contested match against a Carlisle U11 side with Aiden Goodin and Sean Thornely-Kyle picking up two wickets before the side successfully chased their total of 77 to win.

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