A pitch inspection at 11am confirmed the wicket was dry (thanks to Rab’s covers) and the outfield was drying (thanks to the Scottish summer wind). 1pm saw players amassing at the pavilion and stumps & bails set up after a small, barely noticeable, faff. Dollar won the toss and elected to bat with a pair…

Question: How many (mostly middle aged) men does it take to host and play an international, indoor cricket tournament where the loudest sounds are not “how’s that?” or “run…wait…yes…no…yes” – but are rather sounds of American, South African, Scottish, English and other assorted dialects of laughter? Answer: Roughly 27. So it was on May 5th…

Dollar Cricket Club’s annual fixture against the first XI from Dollar Academy is a fixture we relish and cherish. The DA first XI are a very decent set of cricketers who progress every year under great coaching, not least by Mr Frost. Given that we have two games against them this year, we elected to…

Yes!  We did it!  In what was to be a very competitive game with Stenhousemuir we managed to take the win!  Stenny bowled really well and with us losing 3 wickets in our last over we managed to post a total of 44 from our 10 overs.  Some tight bowling and a brilliant power over…

Another great DCC Sunday was had yesterday with too many memorable moments. The squad mustered at 1.00pm at the games hall ready for a round robin 6’s tournament. The format was straight forward, three teams of 6 playing a 12 over game. Marcus, Buck and Fox were nominated captains and pick fairly robust squads, with…

DCC Stumble……. Well after a rich vein of form Marcus thought he would desert the team and take a wee trip skiing! Trying to impress the boys were well behaved and everyone had a quiet Saturday evening, in hindsight this was probably the main issue for the lack lustre batting performance. Buck opened with Fox…

We’re on a roll!  2 wins from 2 games!  I’ve now equaled the number of defeats as DCC captain with the number of victories! This week our opponents were Stirling County who after the first game were sitting top of the league after thrashing Callander the previous week and scoring the maximum batting and bowling…

Dollar CC v Clackmannan CC 6-A-Side Indoor Cricket League Sunday 9th March YYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!  Finally, after 2 defeats as DCC Captain (and 2 defeats to Buck in 6-a-side training last week) we finally won a game with me at the helm!  This week saw the start of the indoor 6-a-side league which will be played at…

After a heavy downpour in Dollar at about 11am on Sunday morning I feared the worst that the game would be called off and I’d be spending the afternoon decorating the lounge!  I received a text at 11:30 and my heart immediately sank as I reached for the paintbrush.  Fortunately for me it was an…

Dollar CC v Falkland CC 16th June 2013 As only one old biddy uses public transport in Dollar, we joined her and met at 11:45 in the bus stop outside the Kings Seat for the trip to Falkland.  Well all of us except Craig ‘Craig Smith’ Smith did, whose excuse for being late was he’d…