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Cricket Junior Section Update
October 2021

Coaching/training programmes
Winter Junior Coaching

Clydesdale CC is delighted to be able to confirm the initial details of our Junior winter programmes 2021-2022.  As always, our coaches have aimed to create an interesting programme which will offer appropriate challenge, and support, to all our Junior members.

Details below relate to activities during 2021 and 2022 programme details will follow later in the winter.

• Floodlit Frenzy (16, 23, 30 October & 6, 13, 20, 27 November)
• Saturday evenings, softball, under floodlights, on the hockey pitch, £3 per session
• For All Stars, Dynamos, members and friends (all must have completed a consent form)
• 6.15pm – 7.15pm, U10
• 7.15pm – 8.15pm, U11 → U14
• 8.15pm – 9.30pm, U15 → U18

• Indoor Training Programme (7, 14, 21, 28 November & 5, 12, 19 December)
• Sunday evenings, in Hutchesons’ Sports Hall, £4 per session
• For members only
• 6pm – 7pm, U12 (session will have hardball and softball sub-groups)
• 7pm – 8pm, U13, U14, U15
• 8pm – 9pm, U16 → U18

• Kwik Cricket
• Sunday mornings (TBC – hopefully: 7, 14, 21, 28 November & 5, 12, 19 December)
• For members only
• Indoor matches v other clubs, probably £3 per session

• Super 8s
• (TBC – hopefully: 27, 28, 29, 30 December)
• For members only
• Indoor Tournament v other clubs, probably a £5 tournament fee

The club’s on-line membership and registration form is available here: Juniors2021 (N425) (fmphost.com)

The club also continues to use TeamApp (individuals can download and request access) and a Junior WhatsApp group (you can ask to be added) to communicate with Junior members and parents.

The club is also continuing to offer volunteering opportunities for our older Juniors – especially those looking to get involved in activities for their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Please contact Tim Hart directly for more details.

David Hart
Clydesdale CC – Junior Convenor
E: juniorconvenor@clydesdalecricket.org.uk
M: 0776-205-9221

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Match Reports

Monday 11 October 2021 

Mark Peel

Having read History at Edinburgh University, Mark Peel taught History and Politics at Fettes for twenty-four years from 1983 to 2007, whereupon he gave up teaching to concentrate full-time on his writing. He is an award-winning author who, in addition to biographies of Shirley Williams, Donald Soper and the 14th Duke of Hamilton, has written eight cricket books. Mark has penned biographies of Ken Barrington (The Cricket Society’s Book of the Year in 1992), Colin Cowdrey, Colin Milburn, and Mike Brearley. His Ambassadors of Goodwill: On Tour with the MCC 1946/47-1970/71 was one of the six shortlisted titles for The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year in 2019 whilst Playing the Game? The Ethics of Cricket from Bodyline to the  Present was shortlisted for The Telegraph Cricket book of the Year in 2019. In The Hollow Crown: The England Cricket Captaincy from 1945 to the Present Mark presents portraits of each of England’s 43 post-war captains, examines the huge demands placed upon them and why so few of them demit office with their reputations enhanced. His latest book, published in August 2021, is another biography, Never Surrender: The Life of Douglas Jardine.

West of Scotland meetings: normally held on the second Monday of the month at 7.30 p.m. at Clydesdale CC, Beaton Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, G41 4LA.