Club News

Monday 12th September saw over 200 people attend the annual Junior awards night in the main assembly hall at Loch Leven Community Campus.

The evening was hosted by junior convenor, Tim Gosse, with special guest Mr Gavin Davey OBE, Chief Executive of The Gannochy Trust.

The following members received certificates of achievement and prizes.

 

Kwik Cricket Skills Award - Bronze Level

Andrew Clark Ben Volland Ramsay Scott Luke Volland Jake Hodgson Findlay Langton Ross Hunter Euan Abel James Abel Joe Jenners Emma Turlik

Kwik Cricket Skills Award - Silver Level

Jack Campbell Josh Hodgson Eleanor Baughan Eleanor Culley Abigail Hall Callum Shah Lewis Smart Marshall Smith Fraser Turnbull Alex Turlik Mark Gatland

Kwik Cricket Skills Award - Gold Level

Toby Douglas Struan Fotheringhame Jamie Glasgow Elliot Hogg Rebecca Peedle Daniel Reilly Kelly Smart Daniel Sproul Jamie Gibson Daniel Round Jack Muncey Gilleasbuig Peterson Robert Yeaman Niamh Ironside

Inter Cricket Skills Award

Lauryn Brand Gavin Hay Ben Hodgson Angus Marden Hannah Peedle Louise Clarke Finn Hall Suley Ulla Sam Law

Kwik and Inter Cricket Skills Award - Best Performances

Bronze - Ben Volland Ramsay Scott Luke Volland Findlay Langton Euan Abel James Abel Silver - Marshall Smith Alex Turlik Gold - Jamie Gibson Inter - Angus Marden Finn Hall

Under 11 Awards

Batsman of the Year - Jack McCreanor Bowler of the Year - Stuart McCreanor Fielder of the Year - Hannah Peedle Most Improved Player - Daniel Sproul "Spirit of Cricket" Award - Sam Law

Under 13 Awards

Batsman of the Year - Fred Culley Bowler of the Year - Rory Cooke Fielder of the Year - Fred Culley Most Improved Player - Lachlan Peterson "Spirit of Cricket" Award - Samuel Smith

Under 15 Awards

Batsman of the Year - Fraser Gosse Bowler of the Year - Fred Culley Fielder of the Year - Fraser Gosse Most Improved Player - Colum Stevenson "Spirit of Cricket" Award - Nicholas Diston

Kinross Cricket Club hosted the annual Kinross-shire Primary Schools tournament on Friday 27th May at Kinross House. 5 teams took part this year and there was a new winner for Kinross-shire in 2011 – Portmoak Primary School – who played magnificently and didn’t lose a game. This sees an end to Cleish Primary School’s 3-year dominance of the event. As there was an uneven number of teams, the club coaches put on coaching sessions for the children waiting to play to keep them active and enjoying a full day of cricket whilst improving their skills. In second place was Arngask Primary from Glenfarg who are newcomers to the event. This year sees Kinross Cricket Club starting a new Active Schools partnership with Arngask as they are now within the Kinross-shire Sports Cluster. The club coaches are looking forward to commencing a block of coaching sessions there beginning next week.

The standard from all players at the tournaments was very high and the “Spirit of Cricket” was evident by all the children encouraging each other, playing to the best of their abilities and demonstrating good sportsmanlike behaviour. And most of all, the tournaments were lots of fun with all players getting an equal chance to bat, bowl and wicket-keep. All the teams were a great credit to their schools and the future of Kinross Cricket looks safe for many years to come with lots of children keen to continue playing and come along to the club junior sessions on Monday evenings.

Kinross coaches helping at tournament

Winners: Portmoak Primary

The Club was well represented at the recent Perth & Kinross Sports Council Awards. We made it to the final three in several categories including:-

• Team of the Year - National Indoor Champions Kinross Cricket Club Ladies
• Young Sports Personality of the Year - Scotland under-19 and Kinross CC player, Peter Ross
• Club of the Year - Kinross Cricket Club

And we were absolutely delighted to have a winner from the club. Ladies player, Kirsty Clarke was voted the winner of the Disability Endeavour Award for her commitment to cricket, her great enthusiasm and efforts whilst dealing with serious health issues. Congratulations Kirsty!

Disability Endeavour Award Winner Kirsty Clarke
 

The 2011 U13 Scottish cup campaign is an historic landmark for Kinross as it is the first time that the team has come from the initial Kwik Cricket squads we have being running since 2006. For most of the team their only access to cricket is through the club as the Kinross High School club is still in its infancy. The previous team make-up consisted of many players from Dollar Academy and Craigclowan prep school. Whilst the club is very keen to keep it’s established links with both these schools its very encouraging to see so many local players from the local high school.

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The persistent rain that covered Kinross throughout Thursday and Friday morning, didn’t dampen the spirits of the Kinross (Young) Ladies as they faced a boys under-13 side for the first time in the 2011 season.

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Congratulations to the U15s who have built upon their great Scottish Cup win against Forfarshire with another convincing win against Dunfermline last night, 3rd May, in the rescheduled fixture.

Well done to the all the players and good luck for the rest of the season.

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Saturday 30th April saw the start of Kinross’s much anticipated first game in the Strathmore premier division. The previous Saturday’s game against Stoneywood/Dyce was rained off so the first chance to pit the team abilities against premier rivals was at home against a very strong Huntly side.

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Kinross Ladies have joined the newly formed National Women’s League. Six teams have signed up to take part and this offers the ladies regular good quality fixtures throughout the season. It also enables the Scotland selectors the opportunity to see which girls are in form and have the potential to play at a higher level.

The first league match is on Sunday 22nd May at Home at the cricket pitch at Loch Leven Community Campus starting at 1pm. The format is 30-overs an innings.

Kirsteen and John Ross attended the Kinross-shire Round Table Dragon’s Den evening to try to win some money for the club’s fantastic development plans. John delivered a very good presentation about the recent road to success and the club’s achievements to date as well as outlining the plans for the proposed new ground. There was a short question and answer session about the benefits the money would bring and John and Kirsteen were thrilled when the Dragons handed over an incredible £600 cheque to boost the new development fund as they were very impressed with the proposal and keen to support the club.

Thank you very much Kinross-shire Round Table. Your support is very much appreciated.
 

The Kinross-shire Round Table meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the month and they are keen to find new members to get involved. Check out their website for further information. http://www.kinross-shire.roundtable.co.uk/table-pages/

The club members unanimously approved plans to go ahead with building a fabulous new second cricket pitch and ground with bigger and better practice, match and social facilities. The intention is to retain our Kinross House ground for 1st XI, Scottish Cup and International matches but the opportunities to further develop the current ground to add in nets and other static practice facilities or even to increase the size of the square is completely limited. There will be an increase in fundraising activities to raise funds for the projects along with the grant funding applications. This is a wonderfully exciting development for the club and will further enhance the club’s reputation as an excellent environment for playing cricket and receiving high quality coaching in a positive, welcoming environment for boys, girls, men and women.

The club management team remains unchanged from last year following the club’s AGM. The office bearers and committee are as follows;

Club Chairman: John Ross
Secretary: Kirsteen Ross
Treasurer: Alan Harper
Club Captain: John Muncey
Vice Captain: Simon Lopez
Junior Convenor: Tim Gosse
Head Coach: Vacant At Present
Committee: Stuart Brand
Committee: Wendy Conway
2nd XI Captain: Paul McDonald
MWL Captain: Stuart Brand
Ladies Captain: Lauren Megginson and Anita Collins (joint captains)

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Following the decision at the AGM to go ahead with building a fabulous new second ground, the fundraising team responded accordingly by organising the Santa Sleigh collection with the Kinross-Shire Round Table. 30 club members braved the sub zero temperatures and icy conditions to collect in the Balgeddie, Kinnesswood and Scotlandwell Areas.

This has raised a minimum of £400 for club funds.

Very well done and thanks to everyone involved.

On Saturday 13th December we held our Annual Club Dinner at The Green Hotel in Kinross.

John Ross hosted another great evening and looked back on what was another successful season for with the ladies being crowned Scottish Indoor Champions, and 1st XI winning the Dukes Strathmore and Perthshire Cricket Union Division 1.

The first section of the evening featured the awards from local and national bodies for team competitions and individual achievements.

First up to collect an award was Jane McLaren who accepted the Perth & Kinross Sports Council Team of the Year award on behalf of the club.

Next, Fiona Willis collects the Scottish University Women’s Indoor Championship 2010 trophy on behalf of the Kinross Ladies

Zoe Conway then collected the Cricket Scotland National Women’s Indoor Championship 2010 plate

The winning Kinross Ladies Indoor team

LtoR: Kirsteen, Zoe, Fiona, Laura, Stephanie, Lauren

After scoring 133 not out against Coupar Angus in just 93 minutes, Peter Ross collects the Lindsay Ancell Trophy for the fastest century in 2010 in the Strathmore union Cricket League First Division

Finally John Muncey, club captain, collects the Earl of Strathmore Cup for the 1st XI winning the First Division League in 2010

Next came the Ladies Section

Lauren Megginson wins the prize for the best Ladies bowling performance in the season

Laura Walker wins the prize for the best Ladies batting performance in the season

Lottie Mayes wins the Ladies “Spirit of Cricket” Award

Kirsty Clarke also awarded the Ladies “Spirit of Cricket” Award

Stephanie Crolla wins the Ladies Fielder of the Year award

Claire Jackson wins the Ladies Bowler of the Year prize and this is collected by her team mate, Zoe Conway.

Kirsteen Ross wins the Ladies Batsman of the Year prize

Then the 1st and 2nd XI Awards

Mark McLaren accepts the club’s Most Improved Player of the Year Award which is presented by 2nds skipper, Bob Dowie

Paul McDonald wins the 2nd XI Fielder of the Year award

John Mooney wins the 2nd XI bowler of the Year award and this is accepted on his behalf by 2nds captain, Bob Dowie

Stuart Brand wins the 2nd XI batsman of the year award and this is accepted on his behalf by Paul Maddocks

Peter Ross is the 1st XI Fielder of the Year with 7 stumpings and 3 catches

John Ross is the 1st XI Bowler of the Year, 28 wickets at an average of 7.3

Peter Ross is the 1st XI Batsman of the Year with 356 runs at an average of 59.3

James Ross is presented with a Special Award to commemorate him scoring 1038 runs scored in the season.

John Ross wins the “Richard Oldham” Best Individual Bowling Performance in a Match prize taking 7 wickets for 31 runs against Coupar Angus

James Ross wins the Best Individual Batting Performance in a Match prize scoring 141 not out against Forthill

Next there were some special recognition awards

Keith Watson is presented with a gift to thank him for operating the scoreboard throughout the season

Tim and Allison Gosse were presented with the “John Stewart” Quaich for services to the club. They jointly carry out the role of junior convenor and are both child protection officers for the club. Allison is also a member of the club’s fundraising committee and player for the Ladies team.

Centurion Award - Chris Sale was presented with a gift for the two centuries that he scored for the 1st XI this season. 113 v Coupar Angus and 106* v Northern

Centurion Award – Peter Ross was presented with a gift for the century that he scored for the 1st XI this season. 133* v Coupar Angus

Centurion Award – James Ross is presented with a gift for the two centuries that he scored for the 1st XI this season. 141* v Forthill XI and 104* v Kinloch

The Kinross Cricket Player of the Year 2010 is James Ross. He has had a tremendously successful season narrowly missing sweeping the board of all the 1st XI trophies scoring 1038 runs at an average of 57, taking 28 wickets at an average of 12.8 runs/wkt and taking 5 catches and securing 4 run-outs.

And finally...

Stephanie Crolla is presented with a birthday cake - 25 today!

Wendy Conway wins the club’s “Brain and Brawn” award. Unfortunately she couldn’t make the evening due to illness and her daughter Zoe accepted her prize along with a bottle of Lucozade to speed her recovery!

Ken Reilly and Calum Watson appeared at the awards in matching outfits!!
 

Kinross Cricket Club has teamed up with Surridge Sport to launch a new range of playing and training wear for the 2010 season. This is available for all junior, senior and ladies members and the shop can be found by going to www.surridgesport.com, selecting “Club Shops”, then “Cricket Club Shops”, then “Kinross Cricket Club Shop”.

Orders will be despatched directly to you and the committee hopes you will be pleased with quality and range provided.

The club will continue to hold a small amount of whites tops in stock for players that need clothing at short notice to play in matches.