IMPORTANT 

Annual General Meeting

This year's AGM will be held on Thursday 4th December at the Green Hotel, starting at 7pm. This meeting is open to all members of the club an is a great opportunity for you to have a say in the setup of Kinross Cricket Club.

2008 Christmas Party

Tickets for the annual Kinross Cricket Club Christmas party are now on sale. It is being held again at The Windlestrae Hotel, Kinross on Friday 28th November from 8pm – 12pm (Doors Open 7.30pm) Tickets are the same price as last year - £7.50 each

Please contact Kirsteen for tickets or any of the following club members;

Kaye Brown, Grahame Clarke, Susan Cornish, Julie Farrar, Allison Gosse, Maureen Lewis, Lisa Megginson, Kim Tree and Debbie Weir.

The party is one of our main fundraising events of the year and is for all ages. All members and their friends and family are warmly invited to what is always a fantastic, fun night out. This year, we have music by Soundmaster Disco. As usual we will have a raffle, private bar, The Macallan Challenge and the ticket price includes stovies supper.

Tickets have sold out every year for the past three years, so please don’t delay in getting in touch. We appreciate your continued support and hope you will enjoy a great party night.

Awards Night Videos

The main videos from both the Senior and Junior Awards nights are now available under the Videos section of the website.

Please note that some of these are quite large and may take a while to load.

2008 Senior Awards

The 2008 Senior Awards Dinner was held at The Green Hotel in Kinross on Saturday 15th November 2008. As well as the presentations to the many prize winners in the club, there was also a very special tribute paid to Ken Reilly by Danny Harper. After a career that has lasted for over 50 years, Ken has finally decided to hang his spikes up and retire from playing cricket. He will, however, still be involved in coaching and umpiring and will continue to add to value to the club and individual players through his vast experience of the game.

Click here to see the award winners and photographs from the evening.

Junior Club of The Year at the 2008

Kinross Cricket Club is very proud to be jointly awarded Junior Club of The Year at the 2008 Lloyds TSB Scotland Scottish National Cricket Awards held at a reception in Edinburgh.

Kinross Cricket Club and the Huntly Highlanders are the only clubs in Scotland to receive Cricket Scotland’s TOPClub Silver award, as part of the governing body’s development programme. This involved meeting strict criteria, which included having the appropriate number of Level 2 qualified coaches, opportunities for girls and boys to play, a clear pathway to excellence, a volunteering strategy in place, equity and child protection policies and active schools partnerships with at least four local schools.

Pictured L to R: John Ross, Kinross Head Coach, Kirsteen Ross, Kinross CC Secretary, presented by Tino Weeraratna of Cricket Scotland

 

2008 Junior Awards Night

The annual junior awards were held at The Windlestrae Hotel on Wednesday 24th September. Ken Reilly welcomed everybody and commented on how good the attitude of our juniors had been and how they were a credit to their parents, themselves and the club. John Ross then took us through the different stages of junior development and how these related to Kinross Cricket Club...

1st XI League Winners

Great news for the 1st team who have been confirmed as Champions of division 3 of the Strathmore & Perthshire Union, and have now gained promotion to play next season in division 2. This caps a very successful season for the team, who also had a great Cup run, reaching the Semi-final of the Small Clubs Cup, losing a close fought match to the eventual winners, a strong Bon Accord side.

In the league, the team, very much a mixture of youth and experience, won 10 matches, losing only 1, beating their closest rivals Clackmannan County both Home and Away. There were some outstanding individual and team performances throughout the season, and the Annual Awards Dinner on the 15th November will see this years eagerly anticipated awards winners announced. A full list of all winners will be published in due course.

Girls Winter Coaching

Kari Anderson, a former Scotland Ladies Team Captain, is going to be running the girls development centre sessions again in October at Dollar Academy. It will run for 6 weeks up until November and then again in January.

The first session will be on the 2nd October and last one on the 6th November running on consecutive weeks rather than fortnightly 6pm-7pm.

If you would like more information then please contact Kirsteen.

 

Ladies Winter Coaching

Winter indoor coaching has been arranged to help build on a fantastic season for the Ladies section of Kinross Cricket Club.

Here are the dates, times and venues...

The cost per session will be updated soon.

Christmas Card

The Kinross Cricket Club 2008 Christmas Card is now available.

It is an original card in colour, designed from original artwork painted by Harold Jackson

If you would like to order some cards then please either click here to download the order form or email Kirsteen.

You can also get them at Winter Coaching.

The cards are supplied in packs of 10, including envelopes, and cost £4 per pack.

1st XI Continue Winning Ways

On a wet Sunday 10th August, Kinross travelled to Clackmannanshire for the return leg of the double header and having won a tough battle at home the week before, Kinross were expecting another fight if they wanted to come away with all the points. However a sublime performance with the ball, especially by John Ross who took a club record 7 for 19 off 7 overs limited Clackmannanshire to 76 runs which Kinross knocked off for the loss of just 2 wickets.

Congratulations to John Ross for his personal performance and to the team as a whole and with just 4 league games left to play and a 100% record to maintain, the end is in sight, but it is all still very much to play for.

Annual Awards Dinners

The 2008 annual awards dinner will take place on Saturday 15th November at the Green Hotel, Kinross. All social members and all players in the men’s and ladies teams are cordially invited along with partners, family and friends.

Tickets are not yet on sale, but if you would like to reserve tickets in advance, please contact club social secretary, Alistair McLaren, by email - classlochie@tiscali.co.uk

This is NOT a fundraising venture for the club and tickets will be at the cost price of the meal – price to be confirmed soon (last year tickets were around £20)

Please put this in your diary so we can get a really great turnout to celebrate cricket in Kinross in 2008.

Further details will be made available nearer the time.

 

Kinross Cricket Club are Fife Mid Week League Winners

Congratulations go to Kinross for their first out-right victory in the mid-week league. Thanks to all the teams and players that took part over the last 11 weeks for playing the games in the true spirit of cricket and grateful thanks to the scorers and umpires that gave freely of their time.

PHOTO: LEFT TO RIGHT
Ian Barron, James Ross, Dave Goodenough, Calum Watson, Simon Lopez (captain), Findlay Watt, Stuart Brand, Michael Smith

 

Under 11 Perth and Kinross Area Players

Five of the Kinross CC under-11s were selected to represent Perth and Kinross in the inter-area tournament held at Kinross House. Teams from Fife, Angus, Perth & Kinross and Dundee took part in an 8-a-side festival which was hosted by the club for the first time. All the boys batted, bowled and fielded very well. Kinross scorers, Kim Tree and Debbie Weir assisted the Perth and Kinross coaching team doing a marvellous job keeping the scoreboard up to date and the scoring records correct. The weather was fantastic and the ground looked magnificent. Thanks were received from the area team managers for the work undertaken by Ant Drew and John Ross to prepare the pitches and to the club for organising and hosting the event.

Photo: Left to right
Fred Culley, Robert Tree, Calum Weir, Ewan Doig and Gregor Stewart with Perth & Kinross Coach, Andrew Lawson
 

Under 15 Scotland Representatives

Kinross teenagers Peter Ross, Scott Weir and Nick Farrar have been selected to represent Scotland for this summer’s program of international under-15 cricket fixtures. This includes games against Holland, Denmark, Guernsey, Jersey and Ireland as well as a number of the English County sides.

Peter and Scott were members of the Scottish under-15 team which toured South Africa in April and Nick was selected for the ICC elite performance training at La Manga, Spain, also in April.

All three boys play for Kinross Cricket Club and the club are proud to be the best represented of all the Scottish Clubs at under-15 level. This is a real credit to the coaching team, the support of parents as well as the hard work put in by the boys throughout the year.

PHOTO: LEFT TO RIGHT
Scott Weir, Peter Ross, Nick Farrar
 

Kinross Cricket Club's Oldest Surviving Member

On Saturday 12th July, Kinross Cricket Club welcomed its oldest surviving member, Mr Alistair Dowell, to watch a friendly game against Bute County. 88 year old, former Scotland player, Mr Dowell, first played for Kinross in 1930 at the pitch at the Beeches in Kinross (now the 18th hole of the Kinross golf course).

If there is anybody out there that has any information about the history of Kinross-shire Cricket Club or in possession of any old club records, please email secretary@kinrosscc.co.uk.

 

So Near Yet So Far

On a wet 6th July, our Under 15s travelled to Glenalmond College to try to retain their Scottish Cup. Unfortunately it was not to be and they lost out to Grange in the final.

With such high hopes and expectations resting on their shoulders, the boys conducted themselves very well throughout the competition, especially on the finals day. They never once gloated in victory and when they were eventually beaten, they were quick to offer their congratulations to Grange, they were all true ambassadors for Kinross Cricket Club and Kinross-shire as a whole.

Kinross - TOP Club in Scotland

Kinross Cricket Club’s commitment to junior development was recognised and rewarded by Cricket Scotland and their sponsor Lloyds TSB when the club were the first in Scotland to be awarded TOPClub “Silver” status. A presentation was made to club secretary, Kirsteen Ross and head coach, John Ross at the Scotland v New Zealand ODI game at Mannofield.

Silver Certificate Presented to Kinross Head Coach John Ross and Club Secretary Kirsteen Ross by Mark Prentice - Head of Corporate Banking at Lloyds TSB Scotland

Community 6s

Saturday 7th June saw 8 teams attend the annual Community sixes tournament. The Kinross Hockey team were keen to retain their title but other entrants from Kinross Round Table, Boys Brigade, Kinross Churches, Kinross Ladies Cricket, Kinross High & Dollar Academy Girls Cricket, Kinross Mixed Hockey teams and Sport Scotland had other ideas. The unexpectedly good weather helped to get all the teams in a summer cricket mood and the group matches progressed quickly. Kinross Hockey ended as winner of the group A matches, and were drawn to play Sport Scotland in the final.

After some excellent cricket from both sides Sport Scotland pulled off an unexpected win to lift the 2008 title.

All the teams and players had a fantastic day and £74 was raised from the impromptu BBQ and was donated to CHAS.

 

Kinross Primary Schools Cricket Champions

The grounds of Kinross House provided a beautiful, sunny setting for the first inter-Kinross-shire Primary Schools Kwik Cricket Tournament this week. Teams from Kinross, Milnathort, Portmoak, Fossoway and Cleish Primary Schools participated in the area tournament hosted by Kinross Cricket Club.

The winners of the Kinross-shire Cricket Primary Schools Shield were the children from Cleish Primary School. The award was presented by club head coach, John Ross.

100 Club

The aim of the 100 club is to raise much needed funds for the Cricket Club.

It is hoped that the club will have at least 100 members, but it will be possible to have more than 1 membership.

Each membership will cost £4.00 per month, paid by Standing Order (see enclosed form) or a lump sum of £48 paid annually. 50% of this income will benefit the club and 50% will paid out in prizes, through a monthly draw and a larger Christmas prize.

Debbie Weir from the fundraising committee has agreed to manage this scheme along with club treasurer, Alan Harper.

Should you have any queries regarding the 100 club, please contact Debbie on 01259 743 417.

Click on the links below to download the relevant documentation

• Kinross Cricket Club 100 Club Overview
• Kinross Cricket Club 100 Club Application
• Kinross Cricket Club Standing Order Form
   

Competition Space

Watch this space for some new challenges...

Email competition@kinrosscc.co.uk if you have any ideas.