Meigle Cricket Club

The 2013 season begins tomorrow with a friendly fixture at Victory Park against Carlton X1 from Edinburgh. Carlton being the club where a former Meigle star now ply's his trade. And besides Neil Kirk, the current Scotland skipper turns out for them occasionaly too!

Some sterling work by the groundstaff this past week has Victory Park looking in fine condition considering the recent awful weather, and with Meigle adding to last season's squad with some Abertay students and the returning Drummond (PJ not PCJ), new skipper Persil has a decent team to put out.

In the close season the long awaited new astro net surfaces and cages have been installed and have already revolutionised practice evenings with a lot more time spent practicing and a safer, truer surface the standard of practices so far has been very high and has encouraged higher and more consistent numbers at training. Long may it continue and if you have not made it down yet, what's stopping you?!

The first junior practice night on Thursday saw a very healthy turnout, with the vast majority of last seasons members returning. This is a very encouraging sign for the long term future of the club.

Lastly, for all playing and non-playing members of the club, the first fundraiser of the season is next Friday the 26th April in the form of a quiz night in the Kinloch Arms with a 7.30pm start. Please make every effort to at least attend yourself and preferrably bring a few mates to make up a team. Persil has attained some very attractive raffle prizes for the evening.

So here's hoping the sun shines this weekend and we can get the season off to a flyer.

Yours in cricket

PJD