MACKENZIE, Colin
On the 1st January 2020, peacefully at the Alexandra Unit, Dumfries Infirmary, Colin Mackenzie (former Dupont Site Manager), dearly loved husband of Alison, loving dad of Maili, and a dear brother of Iain.

Service at Roucan Loch Crematorium on Monday 20th January at 3.00pm. All friends are respectfully invited to attend. No flowers please, donations if desired to Dumfries Cricket Club Youth & Juniors can be given at the service in memory of Colin.

The Club would like to thank the family for this very kind action.

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Immensely sad news today on the first day of 2020. Colin MacKenzie has passed away after a sudden illness and short period in hospital.

Colin was a former Club Captain and up until only a few weeks ago was the fit figure who was quietly managing a junior net lane, outside, at Nunholm, on a Saturday morning, wearing his beanie, in the middle of a Scottish winter.

He came to the area and to the Club in the 1980s and became Vice Captain for the firsts in 1985 and then 1st XI Captain in 1987 and again in 1988 and 1992. He was a fine, exceptionally accurate, opening bowler and under the new Captaincy of Davie Davidson was an instrumental factor in, effectively, the Club's first ever Border League title in 1993.

He was also a contributor with the bat and in the final match to win that title at Penicuik "McKenzie helped Williams in a century stand". The pace bowling double act of McKenzie and Tweedie bowled in tandem in that match for all of the first 25 overs whilst conceding just over fifty runs.

He was the reason that the club made a series of well-remembered midweek tours in the mid-1980s to Derbyshire as a result of his connection to the area. He was also an important organiser for the Club in the hosting of two one-day international matches between Scotland and India in the summer of 1986 in the Dumfries Octocentenary Year.

He was good enough to be selected for the South of Scotland team but was wisely advised not to arrive, as a debutante, with a fashionable newly purchased cricket case by fellow picks Trefor Williams and Allan Tweedie. He duly turned up for the game carrying his bat in one hand and his gear in a collection of plastic bags in the other.

His genial nature belied a competitor on the field but it was the former that juniors would have encountered more recently as he passed on his quiet words of encouragement and advice as they came back to their bowling mark on a Tuesday evening or a Saturday morning.

He will be sadly missed and this a real shock to his former team-mates and around the club. Our thoughts and sincere condolences go to Alison and Maili and and all of his family and friends.

He was a gentleman who graced the club. Rest in Peace Colin Mack .

Photo:
Colin at past team-mate Mick McEntyre's return visit to the Club from Australia during the summer season