Well done to Clydesdale who overcame a spirited Prestwick side to claim victory in the this year’s McCulloch Cup final. A lively crowd attended the final, which was excellently hosted by Uddingston CC, at Bothwell Castle Policies. For those who couldn’t attend the game, it was live screened courtesy of Paul Coffey, for which the WDCU is very grateful. Thanks also to CSMOA umpires Craig MacDonell and Chaitanya Pulle who officiated the game in fine manner. Pictured below are the winning Clydesdale side.

This Sunday, Clydesdale will face Prestwick in the 2021 McCulloch Cup final at Bothwell Castle Policies. Both teams have been playing some exciting cricket this year, and it should be a cracking final.  We hope there is a bumper crowd in attendance, but should you not be able to make it on the day, you can follow the game on livestream.

Please use the link below and enjoy the game:

Livestream link

Good luck to both teams.

Please see a note sent to all clubs regarding a small change to the DLS system for games in September.

The 2021 McCulloch Cup final between Clydesdale and Prestwick will take place at Bothwell Castle Polices at 2pm on Sunday, 12 September.  This should be a closely contested, and exciting, final with hopefully a good crowd in attendance.

This is the last final of  the season, so get along, and have a watch!!

Please see most recent WDCU update sent to clubs on 13 August 2021.

We continue to make good progress with our competitions and the Cups are nearly all completed.  Winners so far:

Rowan Cup – Ferguslie
Western Cup – Partick
Greenwood Cup – GHK
McCulloch Cup – (Clydesdale versus Prestwick  on 12 August 2021, at Bothwell Castle Policies)

The Saturday League competitions have been favoured with good weather and we are going to complete a healthy number of games.  Could I remind clubs to continue to accurately enter their summary and full scorecards, the Captain’s Reports and and also the “Fair Play” scores in good time.

As you will be aware, this season is extending into mid-September to accommodate the delay to the start of the season.  As light may become an issue for these fixtures, the CMC has decided that mid innings intervals for fixtures in September will be reduced to twenty minutes and would ask clubs to ensure that they bowl their overs as quickly as possible.  We have asked the CSMOA to advise their umpires to enforce the regulations regarding over rates rigorously in September.  Also, sanitisation breaks will now be aligned to the normal  drinks breaks so that should speed up play too.

The Evening and Sunday League competitions have had some issues with cancellations and re arrangements, and I would ask that clubs check that all scores/match outcomes have been uploaded to the Cricket Stats site so that they appear on the website.

There are quite a few missing so please give this your best attention,  All outstanding games need to be completed by Sunday 19th September.

Unfortunately there have been 21 Disciplinary reports so far this season which is disappointing.  Could clubs please remind players of their responsibility regarding inappropriate behaviour.  There are two in particular that I would like to highlight.  With an increasing amount of cricket appearing on social media clubs and players should be careful of what they publicly post.  As a reminder the article in the code of conduct that could be applied to comments made on social media is as follows:

2.7 Public criticism of, or inappropriate comment in relation to any Player, Team Official, Match Official or team, irrespective of when such criticism or inappropriate comment is made.

Clubs and players should also be aware that there will be serious consequences for members and players who demonstrate behaviours found to be racist in nature.

It is important that your members and players are made aware of these issues.

COVID-19 has not gone away so if clubs experience selection issues because of that please provide WDCU with details as early as possible.

Finally please note that transfer requests at this stage in the season are very unlikely to be approved unless a club can demonstrate to CMC that there are exceptional circumstances for the transfer.

Iain Kennedy
WDCU Administrator

Please see most recent COVID-19 update from Cricket Scotland:

Dear clubs,

As we enter the latter stages of the season, Cricket Scotland would like to thank and congratulate all clubs and regional associations for their patience and management of the necessary restrictions in relation to the pandemic.  Across Scotland we have had minimal disruption, with only a handful of clubs having to postpone games due to COVID infection or the associated isolation requirements.

Scotland has now moved beyond Level 0 and following the latest relaxation in restrictions from the Scottish Government, sportscotland are now advising clubs and organisations to carefully consider risks before further relaxing their own restrictions.  Whilst there is now no legal requirement for various restrictions in relation to club cricket, Cricket Scotland recommends that club’s consider all the risks before any further relaxation of restrictions (please note that clubs are not obliged to relax any restrictions).  Guidance now places the responsibility on clubs and organisations to make their own judgement on the level of risk for travel, changing room use and spectators.

Update guidance is available here.

The key points from the latest guidance are:

The use of changing rooms is permitted where deemed necessary.  Examples of what “deemed necessary” are provided in 4.9.

• Spectators are permitted with restrictions in line with Scottish Government events sector guidance. Details on the restrictions are provided in 4.8.
• Travelling in a car with anyone from a different household should be avoided unless necessary. Additional guidance is provided in 2.2.
• During a match, sanitisation breaks can now be combined with the drinks break.
• Clubs should continue to avoid providing “cricket teas”.

Please let me know if you have any further queries.

Best regards.

Paul Macari

Please see below information on the first Spirit of Cricket Trophy match. This match will be played in memory of Sandy Strang and Con de Lange who were popular members of both clubs.

They will play for a new trophy donated by former Ferguslie Scottish Cup winning captain Duncan Forrest.

Spirit of Cricket trophy

Congratulations to the 2021 Greenwood Cup winners, GHK.  GHK defeated Albert Park in a keenly contested final at Langside CC last night.  Batting first Albert Park posted 116 in eighteen overs, and GHK chased it down, in fading light, with a couple of overs to spare.

Thanks to umpires Allan Jack and Mark Colman for keeping the game going in murky weather, and to Langside CC for providing the ground in fine order for the final.

One more final to go, and that is the McCulloch Cup between Clydesdale and Prestwick, with details of date and venue to follow.

Please see a note sent to all club contacts this afternoon.

Would all clubs please note that the deadline for transfers and new registrations of 31st July 2021 has now passed and, as such, no further transfers or new registrations will be permitted until the end of the season unless there are exceptional circumstances.

The CMC is very concerned with the number of in-season transfer requests made this year, especially from players who have already played competitive fixtures in WDCU competitions.  It has taken up a huge amount of the Administrator’s time and effort as well as the CMC’s which, especially this season, would have been better used elsewhere.  Clubs and players should note that transfer regulations will be enforced much more rigorously again next season, and any player that has played a competitive fixture for another club in the WDCU, or elsewhere in the same season, will be unlikely to be permitted an in season transfer in 2022 without a compelling reason.

Duncan Paterson
Cricket Management Committee Chair

Following their success in 2019 holders Partick retained the Western Cup in last night’s final with St. Ninian’s.  A dominant display with bat and ball eased Partick to victory at Meikleriggs.  Thanks to Ferguslie for hosting the game on a lovely evening with the ground in fine condition.  Thanks also to umpires Colin McLardie and Roy Pearson for their umpiring duties.

Commiserations to St. Ninian’s and congratulations to Partick on a splendid victory.