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Venue – Stoneywood Dyce (40 overs per side)

Start Time – 12 noon

Meet at SD – 1130am

Come dressed in whites to play, bring your own teas and hand sanitizer.

Team
Swiergon (c)
Anand
Clelland (w)
Keith
Lee
Macklin
Mapplebeck
Monnapillai
Morrison
Norwood
Youles

Just when all hope of a game of cricket had seemingly gone, FPs step into action this Saturday at Stoneywood Dyce.  Many thanks for Stoneywood for the invite. There are sure to be plenty of people having to dig back out the kit that had been stored away for another winter.  Hopefully, the weather delivers and the FPs lineup is not as rusty as you might expect after a complete year off.

Last week we took the 1st tentative steps towards playing cricket with our 1st training session which was kindly hosted by Stoneywood Dyce at Peoples Park. Peoples Park is an excellent facility given they are Aberdeen’s national league team and the ground has been well set up to accommodate us and ensure we comply with all appropriate measures. Training will be every Wednesday at 6pm at Dyce and we would ask you to update teamer ahead of the session or contact a member of the committee if you are attending so we can keep appropriate records.

Members who are paying subs are free and those that are not paying subs we ask contribute £5 per session to cover costs. We will cap the charge at £20, so after 4 sessions, any subsequent session has no charge.

Gilles Gardner kindly captured some pictures from the 1st session https://www.flickr.com/photos/gillesgardner/sets/72157715205799657/

By way of a quick update on cricket this season, we are pleased to see the government in England have now said they will allow cricket from next weekend, and we would hope a similar announcement comes in Scotland soon as well. The scheduled season for 2020 has been cancelled but there may be scope for some games in July (if the government agrees) and certainly into August.  What these games will look like, we are not currently sure. It is improbable we will have access to Rubislaw until at least mid-August and other council pitches are likely to be similarly constrained. The reason being the council require time to prepare them.  We could all debate this point but this is our understanding, although it is not confirmed. WE will certainly advise the club are available for games but this may well need other clubs to host us and we will be open to playing anyone if it at least gets some cricket.

In terms of the pitch, we had 3 very generous offers of help from Derek Traill, Peter Clark from Arbroath and Donny Reid at Gordonians.  Given Donny’s proximity, he has kindly agreed to undertake the fix and this will be done in the near future.  Overall we were inundated with messages from various people and clubs from all across the country and the support was hugely appreciated.

For 2021 we will assess the need for a permanent replacement, but for now, a repair seems the most sensible decision given the level of uncertainty that exists.

Hopefully, we will see some cricket soon and when that happens we hope the weather will be kind to us.