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The ACA have received a letter from Aberdeen City Council advising that the restoration works planned to be carried out at the Duthie Park as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund Grant will prevent cricket being played at the park next year. We are engaged in correspondence with both the Council and Sport Aberdeen to establish whether part of the park might be available and what alternative venues are being provided to allow the 2012 cricket season to proceed. We will keep you advised of developments. wytbu8 Dec 16 2011 - 8:17pm
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 Schools, Huntly. Delegates from Primary Schools, Cricket Clubs and young players from the Caledonian Academy mixed well as they enjoyed a day of skill and technique teaching and coaching methods delivered by Cricket Scotland in partnership with Active Schools Aberdeenshire. The day ended with a Kwik Cricket game course as participants organised, scored, umpired and played in a game of Kwik Cricket.Cricket Scotland’s Grampian Community Development Manager Kevin Davies said. ‘It was good to see a wide range of volunteers coming forward from several areas of the community. Training courses such as the ICC Intro are vital for the development of cricket in our region, with the Kwik Cricket game course added on we now have more help available to run our school and club Kwik Cricket competitions.
Pictured rigt are course participants with Kevin Davies and Toby Hardwick, Moray CA Community Coach. wytbu8 Dec 5 2011 - 9:10pm
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Rule changes All proposals approved as submitted. New penalty of 15 points deduction per team, rather than £5 fine, for non-attendance at General Meetings, applicable from Spring Meeting 2012. Season 2012 Commences Saturday April 28th for all 4 grades. Teams with ground unavailability dates to notify these to the Secretary by 31 January 2012. Similarly fixtures in Strathmore Union/North League. Future Dates Spring Meeting (preceded by captains' meeting) Sunday February 26th 2012 Grades Dinner Friday November 9th 2012 Westhill Inn 2012 AGM Sunday November 25th 2012. Cup Draws Aberdeenshire Cup A AGSFPs v St Ronald B Inverurie Don Valley v Culter Curry Bon Accord C Stonehaven Thistle v Crathie D Dana Petroleum Mannofield v Ellon Gordon E A v Kintore F Cults v B G F v E H D v C Bon Accord Cup A Academy v Methlick B Cults Artisans v Knightriders C 2nd St Ronald v A D Caledonian v Queens Cross/Stoneywood-Dyce E Arrowdawn Gordonians v 2nd AGSFPs F Banchory v B G F v C H D v E Reid Cup A Stoneywood-Dyce/Queens Cross v Huntly B Dunecht v Fraserburgh C 2nd Knightriders v Crescent D 2nd Stonehaven v B E 2nd Methlick v A F Kemnay v 2nd Gordonians G F v D H C v A Johnston Rose Bowl A 2nd Kintore v 2nd Banchory B 2nd Kemnay v 3rd Gordonians C Turriff v 2nd Mannofield D Portcullis v 2nd Ellon E A v C F B v D Standard Balls No changes from 2011 specifications. "Way Forward" Task Group Persons wishing to be involved with the e-mail task force established to look at possible future developments in the Grades to make it more attractive in particular to younger players to contact P Gill, Vice-President. Succession Planning Persons wishing to put themselves forward or to discuss assisting in the future administrative affairs of the Association ahead of the potential future retirement of the current Secretary & Treasurer to make contact with the President or Vice-President of the Association. DM Jones Hon Secretary 20 Nov 2011.
wytbu8 Nov 20 2011 - 10:01pm
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This is a basic introductory cricket course aimed at Parents, Senior pupils, Sports leaders, Youth workers etc. For more details please see attached wytbu8 Nov 2 2011 - 2:13pm
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I can confirm that no further proposals for Rule changes were received by Thursday night's deadline - so it is only the Rules Committee's proposals or amendments thereto which will be on the Agenda for November 20th. The closing date for amendments remain as previously intimated - Thursday November 3rd; and for applications for election/withdrawal of teams November 1st. Thanks. DMJ
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wytbu8 Oct 22 2011 - 9:55pm
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Award Winners
Grade 1 Batting - F Awan (Bon Accord) Grade 1 Bowling - R Greenfield (Ellon) Grade 2 Batting - A Saward (Methlick) Grade 2 Bowling - G Hadden (Inverurie) Grade 3 Batting - C Moir (SD/QX) Grade 3 Bowling - B Snelling (2nd Stonehaven) Grade 4 Batting - S Shorten (Huntly) Grade 4 Bowling - S Ahmed (2nd Knightriders) Wicketkeeping - A Al-Mamun (SD/QX) Under 18 Batting - J Squire (Huntly) Under 18 Bowling - A Afridi (SD/QX) Fair Play Awards Grade 1 - Stonehaven Grade 2 - Fraserburgh Grade 3 - 2nd AGSFPs Grade 4 - 2nd Kintore wytbu8 Oct 6 2011 - 7:14pm
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Anyone interested in back dated issues of the Grades Handbooks please email Ean Mackie on ianmackie574@btinternet.com
wytbu8 Oct 3 2011 - 11:27pm
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wytbu8 Oct 2 2011 - 9:49am
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In the day’s outstanding Grade 2 fixture, postponed from May due to the unavailability of Crathie’s ground, the home side beat Academy to edge past Queens Cross/Stoneywood-Dyce in the race for the second promotion spot, captain Andy Shore steering his team home with an undefeated 36. Academy’s 10-point haul was however sufficient to confirm their Grade 2 status for a further season and relegate Fraserburgh to Grade 3. The remaining game at the top of Grade 3 between champions Knightriders and 2nd Methlick was again washed out; and will now hopefully be played next weekend. The Surprising outcome of the weekend was in the final of the Aberdeenshire cup between Grade 1 Champions Bon Accord and bottom of the table Gordonians. Gordonians choosing to bat first set a target of 271 for 8 off their allocated 40 overs led by the powerful batting from Chandra Mouli (106) top scoring and support from Indika Yahathugoda (61), in response Bon Accord started well, but were soon behind the required run rate, despite a measured innings by Brian Veldsman (42) and some lusty blows from Tauqeer Malik (43) could only manage to reach 223 before being bowled out by the Gordonians side. Man of the Match awarded to Chandra Mouli. 573 reads
Bon Accord are the champions of Thistle Sports Grade 1 for another year, as they beat Mannofield in the final full round of league fixtures, and Cults were unable to force victory against Stonehaven, allowing Ellon to move temporarily into the runners up spot. However with Cults still having to play Banchory after four previous attempts and Kintore after three the Allan Park side are still likely finally to finish second. At the foot Gordonians are definitely relegated, despite drawing against Kintore with 12-year old Aaron Grayson taking the wicket of his father Dave as his first Grade 1 victim, with Banchory now destined to accompany them as, following their draw against St Ronald, even a win over Cults would not be capable of lifting them above Grammar FPs, with Manofield, Kintore and St Ronald also all now mathematically safe for a further season. In Grade 2 Inverurie are promoted as champions, while Queens Cross whose game was voided must wait to see whether Crathie win their outstanding game against Academy to sneak past them into second spot. Academy need 3 points from that final game to finally send Fraserburgh down to Grade 3. As the re-scheduling of this fixture was due to ground non-availability rather than weather, and the clubs have already met, should next Saturday’s fixture be washed out then the fixture will be void and Queens Cross will go up and Fraserburgh will go down. In Grade 3 Knightriders and 2nd Grammar have claimed the two promotion spots, but which two of Dunecht, 2nd Banchory and 2nd Ellon drop down will depend on the rescheduled game between the bottom two, who have yet to meet this season, and are now scheduled to do so on September 10th. Victory for 2nd Knightriders over Turriff means that they have completed the league-cup double in Grade 4, with the other league newcomers Huntly edging out the Haughs based side for the third promotion spot to Grade 3, created as a result of Anchorians withdrawing from Grade 2 before the season started. 536 reads
A group photo from the Junior Competition held at Banchory  The players from Aberdeenshire, Banchory and Stoneywood-Dyce in a group photo at the Banchory CC junior 6-a-sides. Format was 6-a-side, 10 overs per innings, bowlers restricted to three overs max. The teams initially played in a round-robin with Aberdeenshire defeating SD in game one, Banchory beating Aberdeenshire in game two, SD winning against Banchory in game three leading to Callum Wilson's accounting skills sorting out countback to arrive at a play-off match in which SD again triumphed over Banchory. Great fun and a huge well done to the Banchory club for the invitation, the use of their facilities, their BBQ skills and any monies they earned from their wee raffle were well deserved. Let's look to run more of these three-cornered Sunday events in season 2012. A G BARRON Administrator Aberdeen City/Shire Cricket Development Group (M) 07768 361 641
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While it may have come too late to win them the league, an innings of 140 from Sreedish Devadas, backed up by an undefeated 78 from Ally Gill, saw Cults chase down Bon Accord’s total of 258 in a high-scoring game at the Links to close the gap on the league leaders. In the race to avoid relegation meanwhile Kintore recorded a vital win against St Ronald, while Banchory, with former skipper Wjahat Ali featuring, fell agonisingly short of forcing victory against a Mannofield team also in the lower part of the table.
In Grade 2 with Methlick out of action Queens Cross beat Crathie on a severely under-prepared wicket at Harlaw to leapfrog the Balmoral Estate club into second place, while a rare win for Academy at the Duthie Park saw them close the gap on Fraserburgh at the foot of the table. The future of cricket at Harlaw, other than on an artificial pitch, must now be in severe doubt, placing further pressure on the limited other facilities available. League leaders Inverurie comfortably beat a Cults-Artisans side who this time last year were themselves challenging for promotion.
2nd Banchory were able to raise only 8 players and went down comfortably against league leaders Knightriders at Sheddocklsey, while Crescent’s win against Reid Cup winners 2nd Methlick gives them renewed hope of avoiding the drop at the expense of Dunecht or 2nd Ellon. With Stoneywood-Dyce being held to a draw by Gordonians, 2nd FPs returned to form against Dunecht in a game switched to the Cowdray Esate.
In the game between the two top sides in Grade 4, 2nd Knightriders drew first blood as they comfortably beat Kemnay in the final of the Johnston Rose Bowl; and will hope to make it a league-cup double when they take on Turriff in their re-scheduled final league game next weekend. Portcullis rounded off their season, and recent return to form, beating 9-man 3rd Gordonians. 420 reads
Clubs winning their relevant Cup Finals are reminded that under Rule 20, it is their responsibility to phone in the results on the day to the Hotline (07 9 10 27 96 27) at the very latest by 8:15pm. Thanks
wytbu8 Aug 15 2011 - 12:07pm
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Cults won the Twenty20 Turriff Cup, and Crathie are promoted to Grade 1 following the completion of Saturday’s fixtures in the Aberdeenshire Grades.
