Aberdeenshire Cricket Association

ACA Announces "SHAGGY" as the 2012 Grades After Dinner Speaker

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:49:00 +0000

The Aberdeenshire Cricket Association Management Committee can now confirm that the 2012 Grades after Dinner Speaker will be Sean Udal ( England, Hampshire, Middlesex).

Last Chance Saloon !!

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:57:35 +0000

Folks,
The following Clubs have not submitted their relative club player statistics for inclusion into the 2012 Grades Handbook. Please email to buttclan@talktalk.net ASAP. Many Thanks

1. Mannofield

2. Banchory - have a batting spreadsheet which is NOT in the format we require as its very difficult to work out who to select as it is over 5 sheets!!, so I have just picked the top 2 batsman, also I do not have any bowling figures

1. 2nd St. Ronald
2. Academy

1. Crescent
2. 2nd Banchory

1.      Portcullis
2.      2nd Mannofield
3.      2nd Kintore

Duthie Park Cricket NOT available for 2012 Season?

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:17:00 +0000

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.

ICC Introduction to Cricket Course 2011

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:10:26 +0000

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.

Approved Changes, Cup Draws & other Information - 2011 AGM

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:01:02 +0000

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.

ICC Introduction to Cricket Course 2011

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:13:46 +0000

This is a basic introductory cricket course aimed at Parents, Senior pupils, Sports leaders, Youth workers etc. For more details please see attached

Rule Changes for 2012 Season

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:57:35 +0000

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

Grades Dinner 2011 Photo's are now published - See Gallery

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:55:34 +0000

Grades Prize Winners 2011

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:14:21 +0000

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

Past Grades Handbooks

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:27:58 +0000

Anyone interested in back dated issues of the Grades Handbooks please email Ean Mackie on ianmackie574@btinternet.com

North Regional Development Centre Squad for 2011/12 Programme

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:49:34 +0000

The North Regional Development Centre have selected the following squad for the winter 2011-12 programme. Well done and congratulations to all selected.

Under 15		Club
Ryan West		Aberdeenshire
Jordan Squire		Huntly
Joseph Hough		Buckie
Alex Green		Nairn
Joe Milne		Stoneywood-Dyce
Under 14
Niall Critchley		Banchory
Aadam Shah		Stoneywood-Dyce
Archie Houldsworth		Gordonstoun
Edward Gledson		Gordonstoun
Fraser Bishop		Gordonstoun
Cameron Patel		Gordonstoun
Charlie Bailey		Gordonstoun
Kirstie Gordon		Huntly
Under 13
Aaron Grayson		Aberdeenshire
Owen Davies		Huntly
Cameron McPhail		Banchory
Under 12
Arnav Mehta		Buckie
Connor Shorten		Huntly
Tom Diamond		Aberdeenshire
Findlay Anderson		Aberdeenshire
Oliver Hinks		Huntly
Lewis Buxton		Huntly
Yannick Sutcliffe		Huntly

Actions/Dates for your 2011 Diary - ACTION ITEM REQUIRES URGENT ATTENTION

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:49:07 +0000

Action:

Respond back to your Grades Rep on numbers attending Grades Dinner and if Transportation is required NOW

Dates:

Grades Dinner is on Friday 21st October 2011
AGM is on Sunday 20th November 2011

Grades Results w/e 3rd/4th September 2011

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:40:14 +0000

Cults won the Twenty20 Turriff Cup, and Crathie are promoted to Grade 1 following the completion of Saturday’s fixtures in the Aberdeenshire Grades.

In finals’ day of the Cup competition Cults put out previous holders Mannofield in the semi-final, before going on to beat St Ronald in the final, Javiad Masud taking three wickets and former Anchorians’ captain Chris Forbes two, as the Allan Park side defended a total of 128 from their twenty overs. Man of the match awarded to Richard Munro (Cults)

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.

Grades Results w/e 27th/28th August 2011 - Champions Confirmed

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:25:14 +0000

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.

Junior 6-a-Side Competition 2011

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:58:40 +0000

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