Senior cricket training at Nunholm (for all Dumfries CC teams) starts this Saturday, the 13th March , 11am-1pm.
Any new players, or current sports club members, interested in playing social midweek cricket, Saturday league cricket or Sunday friendlies are encouraged to come down to Nunholm and will be welcomed at the club.
The build-up to the 2010 season is underway with training for the Dumfries CC Under 18’s taking place at Nunholm on Saturday mornings from 10:30 to 12. The sessions started on the 13th of February. Any new youth players interested in some cricket this season are welcome to turn up at the club on the Saturday morning.
Stuart Corbett-Byers up for National award
The Dumfries Cricket Club ground at Nunholm has been voted the tops amongst the National League Division Two clubs. The 2009 award for “Groundsman of the Year” goes to curator Davie Davidson and groundsman Raymond Murray for their efforts throughout the year.
In the other National divisions the 2009 winners are Uddingston for the Premier Division and Arbroath for the First Division. The presentation from the Institute of Groundmanship takes place on Thursday at the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston, Edinburgh along with the football awards to the Scottish Premiership and the other 3 Divisions of the Scottish Football League.
Also in line for a Cricket Scotland award is APD Dumfries’s wicketkeeper batsman Stuart Corbett-Byers. He has been nominated for SNCL batsman of the year and all-rounder of the year in National Division 2. He hit two vital centuries during the season and finished with an average of over 40. He was also ranked as the top wicketkeeper claiming 20 victims behind the stumps. The winners will be presented at Cricket Scotland’s annual awards evening in December. His sponsors, the Sunday Nunholm Card School, can now bask in the reflected glory.
The club’s AGM takes place this Friday, the 13th Nov, at 7pm at the Dumfries Sports Club at Nunholm. Members are invited to attend to select the club officials for the 2010 season and to vote on the club awards for the 2009 season. More information on Dumfries Cricket Club can be found at www.dumfriescricketclub.co.uk.
APD Dumfries’s Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Semi-Final against Greenock has arrived on YouTube courtesy of Cricket Scotland TV.
You can see if the club’s media training has been successful whilst cheering the first innings and watching the second through your fingers!
Scottish 20/20 Semi-Final: Chris Bellwood stunned Greenock by taking 6 wickets for 14, © Cricket Scotland
Dumfries may have found themselves on the wrong side of the conditions batting first on a soft wicket but they had an indifferent start and struggled to 54 for 4 at the half way point. It needed Stuart Corbett-Byers with 36 and Alan Davidson with 26 to put together a fifth wicket fifty partnership and the innings closed on a more hopeful 152 for 7.
Dumfries really needed to bowl and field well and apply early pressure. Unfortunately extras formed much of Penicuik’s initial reply in the absence of regulars Alexander and Patterson. The openers, the pro Ramzan and Scotland U19 player Coleman, survived and with them punishing the loose ball for four on a faster outfield they were not under pressure to look for runs.
Skipper Beveridge trapped Coleman LBW for 30 after an opening stand of 63 and Dumfries needed wickets to stem the run rate. Although Davie Davidson did get Aslam LBW for 39 Penicuik were in the home straight and they concluded a comfortable win by 7 wickets with overs to spare.
On Sunday Chris Bellwood produced the bowling performance of the day at the Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Finals Day in Glasgow taking a remarkable 6 for 14 off 3.4 overs. Underdogs APD Dumfries played Premier League side Greenock in the second semi-final but despite his efforts they still contrived to finish second to the eventual cup winners in the 18 overs a side contest. Read the rest of this entry »
Skipper Scott Beveridge will be looking for more big hits this weekend
APD Dumfries are back on the road this weekend for their final scheduled cricket of their season and the biggest two matches.
After last week’s postponement the play-off match for promotion to National Division 1 starts in Stirling at high noon on Saturday against Division 1 side Penicuik.
On Sunday they are in Glasgow, at Shawholm, for the rescheduled Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Cup semi-finals and finals. There they compete as Border Champions with the winners from the West, North and the East; respectively Greenock, Dunfermline and a Corstorphine side out for revenge for their absence in Saturday’s play-off. The winner’s cheque is for one thousand pounds making this richest prize in Scottish cricket. APD Dumfries play their semi-final against Greenock at 1pm.
Youth and experience defy the Nunholm weather
The 2009 season is drawing to a close and the first and second elevens are awaiting the outcomes of play-offs to decide their destinations for 2010 – the APD team with their fate within their own control but the JMS XI awaiting what happens elsewhere.
Meanwhile cricket at a less rarefied level took place at Nunholm at the week-end with mixed teams of the proverbial youth and experience taking on Longtown and Hillhead. Read the rest of this entry »
Tommy batting against Netherlands U17s, courtesy of ICC/CricketEurope
He joined the other five other full time and two part-time attendees when the course started last week. They include recent Scotland internationals Matthew Parker and Marc Petrie, who kept wicket against Australia two weeks ago. He also joins some of Scotland’s aspiring skiers and rugby players as they attend the corresponding performance courses for their respective sports.
McBride, who played for Scotland U17s and Scotland U19s this year, will receive skills and fitness training and course work in sports science together with a cricketing placement overseas. Last January the group spent three months training and playing in Australia. The likely destination this year is India or Australia.
The former Lockerbie Academy pupil, who was first introduced to the sport thanks to one of the junior cricket taster sessions run by the Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Sports and Leisure Department, has an exciting ‘off-season’ in prospect.
Bellwood hits out in his man of the match innings of 93 not out
Despite the wettest August on record APD Dumfries did play their league showdown against second placed RH Corstorphine in National League Division 2 at Nunholm. The prize for the winner was the place in the promotion play-off match for Division 1.
Dumfries won convincingly by 87 runs, thanks to a match winning 93 not out from Chris Bellwood. He joined Davie Davidson after an early wicket to put together a partnership of just under a century which ended when Davidson was out for 29. Two more wickets fell rapidly and, at 115 for 4, three wickets had gone for twelve runs with 35 overs already bowled.
Dawson holds on to the winning catch
The squeeze was being applied by the spinners Holstein and Mommsen. Already a rain interruption had reduced the match to 48 overs a side and when another came after 40 overs Dumfries were just on 132.
Tea was taken during the rain break and eight overs still remained. Stuart Corbett-Byers hit a crucial run-a-ball 37 including two sixes to produce a more testing total of 190 for 5. Bellwood finished on 93 not out having picked off runs all round the wicket in another classy innings. Read the rest of this entry »
This weekend sees ‘Super Saturday‘ at the Sports Club.
The club tennis finals, senior and junior, start at 11am with play for most of the day plus a barbecue.
Meanwhile the club’s cricketers play at Nunholm in what is arguably their biggest ever league game when APD Dumfries, in 3rd place, compete with Corstorphine, who are in 2nd, to get into the promotion play-off for National League Division 1.
Members are encouraged to drop by and support their local sports club.
Chris Bellwood leaves the field after scoring 170 not out
In National League Division 2 the last game of the season takes place this Saturday at Nunholm against RH Corstorphine.
In arguably the club’s biggest ever league game it means a show down between third placed Dumfries and the side in second place with the winner claiming that second spot. The winning side plays in the promotion play-off for Division 1.
A victory on Saturday would give the Dumfries side the opportunity to be promoted to the highest league they have played in during their 156 years. For skipper Beveridge “these are the games you play amateur cricket to be involved in”.
For the second week the APD Dumfries league fixture was washed out, this time at Prestwick, as was the Murgitroyd Scottish Twenty20 Finals Day on Sunday. APD Dumfries now compete for the Scottish title with Greenock, Dunfermline and Corstorphine on the 13th September.
The Western Union Division 2 match at home between JMS Nunholm and Anniesland saw a masterful innings of 170 not out by Chris Bellwood. The young opener dominated the home side’s innings of 284 for 6 scoring 29 fours and one six for what is regarded as the second highest score for the club after the 191 not out from Russell Johnston earlier this season. In his final partnership with Robert McBride (42no) the pair smashed ninety runs in the last nine overs to set a challenging total.
Bellwood lands a six onto the pavilion roof
In reply Alan Maskrey made the early breakthrough with two wickets in one over and ended up taking five in the Anniesland score of 138 all out to give Nunholm a win by 146 runs.
Monday was the last junior cricket night at Dumfries for the season with an excellent turnout on a sunny evening. Thanks go to the coaching team and the club’s junior sponsors Annandale Insurance and Coatbridge Cold Store Construction for their continued support this year. Read the rest of this entry »
On Sunday, APD Dumfries travel to Glasgow for the Scottish Murgitroyd Twenty20 Finals Day. There they contest the £1000 winner’s prize with Corstorphine, Dunfermline and Premiership side Greenock in the semi-finals and final.
Also on Sunday, at Nunholm, the club’s junior section is holding a Kwik Cricket Tournament in the afternoon (2 to 5pm, Sun 23rd Aug).
Josh drives his way to 68 not out against Gatehouse
With both league matches washed out last weekend the only game played was a local Sunday friendly at Nunholm against Gatehouse. The match was dominated by Gatehouse’s Chaudhary who retired after an excellent century in their 201 for 5 with Alan Davidson taking 3 wickets. Nunholm fell 7 runs short with 6 wickets left after needing 19 off the last over. A unbeaten century partnership between Geary (68no) and Johnstone (31 no) was not quite enough in the Nunholm run chase.
Edgar strives for another wicket against Gatehouse
The two Dumfries CC sides look to resume their league campaigns with important matches this Saturday. In National League Division 2, with just two games left, third placed APD Dumfries are away at bottom side Prestwick. After last week’s washout leaders Falkland emerged as league winners leaving the second place promotion play-off spot as the Dumfries target. Second placed Corstorphine will be down at Nunholm for a showdown game next Saturday.
JMS Nunholm are at home to Anniesland as seventh play sixth in Western Union Division 2 with Nunholm needing points to steer clear of the relegation places.
First XI player Tommy McBride has been playing for the Scotland Under-19s in Durham against a United Arab Emirates Development side and Durham County’s Cricket Academy. He scored 40 and then 62 in Scotland’s drawn 2-day game against the UAE which started on Monday.
Meanwhile results last weekend confirmed the youthful Dumfries Sunday XI as winners of the Strathclyde Sunday League Division 3 with club thanks going to the side’s sponsors, B B Body Repairs.
Scott Beveridge in 20/20 mode, courtesy of Cricket Europe
In the National Division 2 match at Freuchie the home side needed 6 off the last over and got it with the first ball. They were chasing a revised target of 170 in 37 overs after a couple of interruptions and thanks to opener R Birrell scoring 95 not out reached that with few mishaps losing four wickets.
Dumfries scored 211 for 8 in 50 overs in the first innings with Josh Geary scoring 64 and Chris Bellwood 46 but in hindsight the verdict was not enough runs. Dumfries bowled well conceding no runs to wides or no balls. Extras totalled just 2. The loss means the side slipped from second to third in the table and out of the promotion play-off spot.
In the Borders Final of the Murgitroyd Twenty20 competition at Gala on Sunday APD Dumfries succeeded in the last over hitting 12 runs to win by 8 wickets chasing the home total of 124 for 6 in 20 overs. Davie Davidson hit 39 not out and, following his four wickets, skipper Beveridge hit consecutive fours to win with just one ball left for his 25 not out. The side play in the Scottish semi-finals in Glasgow a week on Sunday.
In Western Union Division 2, JMS Nunholm lost a close match at home by 3 wickets. An innings of 84 not out by Clarke won the match for GU Staff after Nunholm posted 186 all out with Chris McCutcheon again the mainstay of the innings with 71.
On Sunday Marcus Richardson starred with the bat scoring 78 as a young Dumfries XI totalled 169 for 7 against a Greenock XI in the Strathclyde Sunday League. Despite a late innings flourish Dumfries won by 46 runs with Niall Alexander and Peter Johnstone each taking three wickets.
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