Following a long and difficult season the Saturday League season drew to a climatic end. In a thrilling encounter at Meikleriggs, Clydesdale pipped Ferguslie to the Premier Division title. A fitting end to an entertaining competition. The WDCU Saturday League winners:
Premier Division – Clydesdale (pictured)
Premier Division Reserve – Partick (pictured)
First Division – Ayr
Second Division – Victoria
Third Division – Hamilton Crescent
The CMC has considered the events surrounding the abandonment of the WDCU Premier League fixture between Greenock CC versus Dumfries CC on 28 August 2021, along with statements from both clubs and both umpires. In making their decision, the CMC used the WDCU Saturday League Administration Regulations 2021, namely sections 1(d), 1(e) and 11(a).
The CMC has decided to award the result of this match, as a victory by concession, to Your Move Dumfries CC. The league table has now been updated.
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:
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.
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.
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.
