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Meigle C.C. is a cricket club from Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland.
Established in 1876,[1] it has won the Strathmore & Perthshire Cricket Union, of which it was a founder member in 1929, on five occasions 2001, 1998, 1980, 1961 and 1954. The club was second to Brechin in the inaugural season. [2]
They are the only club never to have been relegated from the top division of the Strathmore & Perthshire Cricket Union which is one of four regional feeder leagues to the Scottish National Cricket League. The club has long running rivalry with Freuchie Cricket Club from Fife from many years competing in the Scottish section of the National Village Cup.
The club play at Victory Park which has a slight slope.[3][4] In 2001 the club, captained by Peter J. Drummond who later captained Forfarshire in the Scottish National Cricket League, played in the annual Play-Off to enter the Scottish National Cricket League but lost to Border League champions Penicuik. The 1st XI has also won the main Twenty20 cup for the North District, the Three Counties Cup (originally Forfarshire, Perthsire & Aberdeenshire) on six occasions 1951, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1998 and 2000.[5]
The Meigle 2nd XI has won the 2nd XI title on four occasions; 1932, 1958, 1959 and 1984. The 2nd XI has won the Two Counties Cup on three occasions 1985, 1987 and 2000. [5] The Strathmore Union allowed the Perthshire League to join it in 2004.
Representative honours
The village has produced three full Scotland Internationals Gordon Drummond, J.R. (Ralph) Laing[6] and JGB (Gordon) Laing. Ralph was also president of the Scottish Cricket Union, now rebranded as Cricket Scotland, in 1992. Gordon Drummond has been captain of Scotland since 2009. Ryan Watson, a former club professional in the late 1990s, has also played and captained Scotland after qualifying through residency in 2002 as he is originally from Harare and was raised in South Africa. Two of the successful 2001 team also played representative cricket. Peter J. Drummond played for Scotland U19[7] and Iain M. Stewart played for Scottish Universities.[8]
Notes
- ^ "Meigle Cricket Club Home Page". Meiglecc.hitssports.com. http://meiglecc.hitssports.com/default.aspx. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ "Strathmore & Perthshire Union Archive". Cricket Scotland. 2011-02-06. http://www.cricketscotland.com/spuarchive. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ Dukes, Strathmore and Perthshire Union, 1929-2010. Retrieved August 2011
- ^ "Meigle, Victory Park, War Memorial Arch". ScotlandsPlaces. http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=30876. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ a b "Meigle CC". Spcu.co.uk. http://www.spcu.co.uk/pages/page_16581/Meigle-CC.aspx. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ "Scotland Statistics". Cricketeurope4.net. http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/scotlandall/scohome.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ "Scotland Youth Statistics". Stats.cricketscotland.com. http://stats.cricketscotland.com/u19overall/csthome.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ "Stewart returns to city of his birth". Cricketeurope4.net. 2007-12-18. http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES/articles/000060/006062.shtml. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
External links
Categories:- Sports clubs established in 1876
- Sport in Perth and Kinross
- Cricket teams in Scotland
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