Our Winter Junior Sessions start on MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
Our indoor junior sessions start up on Monday! Sessions start up after the October schools break (from Mon 28 Oct, Wed 30 Oct) for a block of 6 weekly sessions in the St Josephs College Sports Hall.

Mondays 5-6pm Stars (5-8 years), Boys and Girls (28 Oct - 2 Dec. 6 sessions)
Wednesdays 5-6pm Blasters/Chargers (9-11/12-15 years) Boys and Girls (30 Oct - 4 Dec. 6 sessions)

New starters very welcome. Just come along to try or contact us. The fun starts indoors!

Blasters who are unable to make Wednesdays contact the club for a possible additional session on Mondays [Email dumfriescricketclub@gmail.com]

RUM FEST is this SATURDAY
The D&G Rum Fest for 2024 is this Saturday afternoon (26th Oct) at the club. For a last minute ticket try here www.tickettailor.com/events/dumfriescrickettrust/1366735

Get your Kurlew Gig Tickets - Sat 16th Nov
There is also live music coming up at the club in November when the 'blues music' band Kurlew have a gig here on Saturday the 16th November from 7pm along with support act Billy James.

Tickets are available NOW from the bar or message Willie on 07803253272 to reserve them with name, telephone number and number of tickets [£5 for members, £7.50 for non members (Limited Numbers Available)]

Christmas Quiz is on Friday 6th December
The Christmas Quiz is on Friday evening on the 6th December. Mark your diary.

Coaching Courses
Cricket Scotland have updated dates for their upcoming coaching courses with Level 1 courses scheduled in November.

Dates Course Type Location
3rd & 10th November 2024 ICC Level 1 Kinross
10th & 16th November 2024 ICC Level 1 Female Only Glasgow
24th November & 1st December 2024 ICC Level 1 Aberdeen
8th & 15th February 2025 ICC Level 1 Dalgety Bay

Other dates are due to be announced for courses in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Contact dumfriescricketclub@gmail.com if you wish to attend to assist our club coaching effort. We do need more coaching help on a regular or, also valuable, on an occasional basis.

Women's Cricket
There are impromptu W&G sessions at the weekends. Contact womenscricket@dumfriescricketclub.com.

The Women's T20 World Cup reached its conclusion with New Zealand winning the final on Sunday and did mean that a Scot won a World Cup medal with Kasperek from Edinburgh and formerly of Carlton a member of the winning squad.

NB: Wee Bash Indoors. There is Women & Girls soft-ball cricket with a Wee Bash event, suitable for starters, on Sunday 3rd Nov 10-2pm in Kilmarnock. Contact womenscricket@dumfriescricketclub.com with your interest.

Scotland Cricket
Chris (McBride number #3) captained Scotland 'A' at the weekend at the T10 European Cricket Championships Finals Week in Spain. He hit 54 off 14 balls (Chris highlights are here ) in the qualification game for the final but Scotland lost out to the Netherlands, who, in turn, lost to the England XI in the final.

And Scotland Men are playing now in the USA with ODI 50-over league games against the USA and Nepal (e.g. Fri 25th, 16:30 v USA streamed online at www.icc.tv).

Getting Cricket Registered
Spend a couple of minutes getting registered with Cricket Scotland and join the others from the club who have already signed up to the Scottish Cricket Registration System.

Anyone involved in Scottish cricket can register with SCRS with a current priority for the following categories – Players, Juniors, Club Officials and Administrators, Umpires and Scorers.

Cricket Scotland are needing to have all our club members registered. Details HERE.

NEW Scottish Sports Concussion Guidance
NEW Scottish Sports Concussion Guidance has been published this week along with a brief video.

But “The message remains the same: all concussions are serious - if in doubt, sit them out.”

Find out more
The Scottish sports concussion guidance e-learning module is available for anyone to use and can be found here

Further information on the Scottish sports concussion guidance can be found on the sportscotland website.

Running the Club
The club survived Storm Ashley relatively unscathed with the mobile nets ending up down in the hedge and wedged against the fixed nets but with only minor damage to the netting.

There was a Cumbria Junior Cricket meeting that we attended on 24th October at Cockermouth CC and the Eden Valley Cricket League AGM is on Monday, 4th November, at 7:30pm in Penrith.

The WDCU are also receiving feedback from the club committee to their recent survey which was sent out to clubs on this season's WDCU cricket in the West.

The next cricket committee meeting is on the 5th of November with the 2024 Cricket Club AGM scheduled for Friday the 29th November.

The Dumfries Sports Club AGM is scheduled for Monday the 16th December at the club.

If you wish to consider standing for the club committee, and we would welcome more help, or wish to raise something to be discussed within the committee then email dumfriescricketclub@gmail.com.