Congratulations to Clydesdale CC who overcame a determined Poloc CC side in an enthralling final at Shawholm last night. Needing 20 from the last over Poloc nearly made it and came up an agonising 3 runs short. Thanks go to Murgitroyd for sponsoring the tournament, Poloc CC for hosting the final, Neil Cauldwell and Ronnie Gilliland for their splendid umpiring and all those who turned up to watch at sunny Shawholm last night.
The semi-final draw for the Greenwood Trophy is as follows:
Dean Park v Albert Park
Partick v Victoria
Ties are to be played on Thursday 18th July.
Well done to Albert Park, Dean Park, Victoria and Partick for reaching the Greenwood Trophy semi-finals.
The draw will be posted early next week. All clubs should remind their players about the requirement to play fairly and in the ‘spirit of the game.’ There has been an upsurge in disciplinary issues recently and its important that this trend is halted.
Could I once again remind all clubs to fully complete their short and long scorecards and Captain’s reports, including umpiring assessments for your opposition teams umpiring where there are no umpires. Please also remember to complete your fair play assessments too as your mark will influence the league tables. Competition at both ends of these tables is heating up.
On that note the CMC this week decided that all 5-point sanctions for incorrectly submitted Captain’s reports will be lifted. Sanctions will still apply where a scorecard has not been submitted on time or a Captain’s report not submitted at all. These were the regulations used in 2018.
Our first cup final will be held next week with the Murgitroyd Rowan Cup being contested between Clydesdale CC and Poloc CC at Shawholm on the 11th of July start time 6pm. Please encourage your members to attend where possible.
Finally good luck to Ferguslie, Stirling County and McCrea FS West of Scotland in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup and to Helensburgh and LOC Hire Stenhousemuir in the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup. All ties are this Sunday.
Iain Kennedy
WDCU Administrator
The quarter-final draw for the Greenwood Trophy is:
Kirkstyle v Dean Park
Albert Park v GHK
Partick v Whitehaugh
Ardencaple v Victoria
Ties to be played on 4th July with a reserve date being the 11th of July.
With the season at the mid-way point I have now attached an updated fair play review table. I am delighted that the scores given by teams on their opponent’s behaviour and playing in the spirit of the game are in the main very good. There are a very large number of 5’s (top marks) given which is excellent.
Top of the shop for all the leagues with the highest average score of 4.86 from seven games is Meikleriggs. At the other end of the leagues with the lowest average score of 2.63 is Victoria.
Please see the link to the table below for more details. You will see in the table only 4.2 % (15/367) of the scores fall in the lowest score zone, and 44.1% (162/367) score top marks of 5. Hopefully the second half of the season will move both these percentages in the right direction!
Congratulations to Poloc and Clydesdale on reaching the Murgitroyd Rowan Rup Final for 2019. The big Glasgow showdown will take place at Shawholm on Thursday 11th July. Good luck to both teams!
Congratulations to GHK, Partick, Titwood and Whitehaugh who have all progressed to the Western Cup semi-finals. The draw for the semi-finals is:
GHK v Titwood
Whitehaugh v Partick
The ties are to be played on Tuesday 9th July.
Well done to Ayr, Ferguslie, Tunnock’s Uddingston and McCrea FS West of Scotland who won through to the semi-finals of the McCulloch Cup last night. The draw for the semi-finals is:
Ferguslie v McCrea FS West of Scotland
Tunnock’s Uddingston v Ayr
Ties to be played on Wednesday 10th July.
Sorry there was no club update last week. Time just got ahead of me!! Here is this week’s:
As we approach the half way stage of the season the leagues and cup placings are beginning to take shape. GHK, GHK Strathclyde, Kirkstyle and Motherwell are the only unbeaten teams in the Saturday league so well done to them. Can they stay that way at the half way stage?
There was a dip in clubs fully submitting their scorecards, Captain’s reports and fair play scores last week and this is a reminder that they are compulsory. Please remember that if you have no umpires in your games you must score the opposition team for their umpiring performance.
Other reminders are to ensure that clubs have DLS information available and to make sure that you have clear team lines for the opposition and umpires.
A new one for you all this week is to make sure you have enough used balls of different quality so that all balls being lost can be replaced with one of an equivalent standard. Performances like Eoin Morgan’s this week are entirely possible!!
As we are at the half way stage next week their will be an update on the fair play scores. Who will be at the top and bottom in each league?
Finally and once again good luck to all WDCU sides playing in national competitions this weekend.
Iain Kennedy, WDCU Administrator
Congratulations to the following teams for reaching the quarter-finals of the Western Cup:
The draw is:
GHK v St. Ninian’s
Titwood v Deanpark
Whitehaugh v EBC Langloan
Albert Park v Partick
Ties to be played on the 25th of June.
Iain Kennedy, WDCU Administrator
