Dumfries Sports Club

Alan Davidson was the player that picked up the trophies at the Dumfries Cricket Club 2013 Awards on Saturday evening.

He won the McKerrow Trophy as 1st XI Player the Year for his performances in the League and Cup as APD Dumfries finished third in the CSL Western Premiership.

He was the Club’s top wicket taker with 28 wickets, as well as the League’s second top wicket taker with 24, and completed an all-round effort as the Club’s third top run scorer with 338 runs for the side.

The season highlight was his remarkable spell of swing bowling to take 7 wickets for just 9 runs at Nunholm for a win against West of Scotland in the second last game which ensured that third spot. That also meant he picked up the Jimmy Steele Bowling Award. An Award he was already in line for having taken six wickets in a match a couple of weeks earlier. To complete his set of trophies his fellow team-mates weekly votes gave him the 2013 Players’ Player of the Year Award as well.

Spinner Jerry Goodin won the Freddy MacLachlan 2nd XI Player of the Year. He was by a distance the top wicket taker with 26 wickets as well as contributing valuable runs with the bat to help Eco-Genics Nunholm finish fourth in the Western Premier Reserve League.

The Young Player of the Year was fourteen year old Chris McBride as he consolidated his place up the order for the 2nd XI contributing over two hundred runs with his mature performances with the bat.

The Dumfries Women’s side finished third equal in their first season in the Scottish League and their Player of the Year went to Kirsty Strachan as top wicket taker and top scorer with one match-winning innings of seventy not out and for earning her first Scotland Cap. Particularly for the development in her bowling, the Strachan Cup for the Most Improved Player was awarded to Ryan Ryan.

The Dumfries Cricket Club AGM will take place at Dumfries Sports Club, Nunholm, on Friday the 22th Nov at 7pm.

APD Dumfries came up against a powerful batting performance from Eastern Premiership side Grange in the Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Semi-Final in Glasgow on Sunday.

It was a return to playing in coloured kit and with a pink ball as Dumfries were asked to bat first. On a lively morning wicket Dumfries reached 29 for two after the first six overs. Davidson then came in at number four and the Stevenson & McConnel Dumfries Man of the Match provided the top score of the innings. He hit 38 not out at a run a ball as the Dumfries innings contrived to lose wickets whenever some impetus had been gained. The century was brought up with a six and the side finished with a potential par score of 111 for the loss of six wickets.

However Munsey, who has featured for the Scotland Development XI this season, opened along with Scotland all-rounder Goudie and the former proceeded to hit some massive sixes as the Dumfries bowlers were unable to make the breakthroughs or staunch the runs.

Goudie was the only wicket to fall with Chris Bellwood pouching a well struck blow off the bowling of Alan Davidson when fielding in the covers. The match reached its conclusion in horrendous conditions as a heavy shower swept across the ground but Munsey finished on 52 not out off 45 balls, including four sixes and three fours, and Flannigan on 32 not out with the target reached in quick time.

Drumpellier then beat Aberdeenshire in the other semi-final but they lost to the deserved winners Grange in a final with a score-line resembling their game against Dumfries.

Both Dumfries 1st XI and 2nd XI league fixtures were victims of the weather last Saturday. This Saturday APD Dumfries play their last home Western Premier league fixture with the opportunity to overtake their opponents, third placed West of Scotland.

Representative Cricket

Away with Scotland U17s, Dumfries’s Niall Alexander took two wickets as Scotland lost, just, by one wicket in their high-scoring 2-day match at Suffolk last week. The side won their match against Herefordshire U17s in the preceding 2-day match.

Dumfries opening bowler Peter Lojszczyk was selected for the Border Reivers in the Pro Series 3-day fixture against the Highlanders played at Stirling this week.