Indoor Junior Cricket - starts Mon 25th Oct
Our junior cricket is resuming, indoors, at St Joseph's School with Monday All Stars (ages 5-9), Wednesday Dynamos (ages 9-12), Thursday Youth (ages 11 -18) starting from Mon 25th Oct for boys and girls aged 5 to 18.

Booking is necessary for the 8 week block of sessions. The details are here -
www.dumfriescricketclub.com/news/junior-indoor-cricket-sessions--from-25-oct-2655361.html

We are grateful for the support of our Youth Teams sponsor James Hallam Insurance.

Getting Social
Sat 23rd Oct - Goodins' Leaving Do
A big date coming up for us is the leaving do for Jerry and Aiden on Saturday evening, the 23rd October, from 7pm onwards at the Club. The Goodin family (Jeremy, Lee, Aiden & Hannah) have all been a big part of cricket in Dumfries over the last twenty years and we wish them well on their move back to New Zealand.

Sat 30th Oct - Women's Dinner and Social
The women's section have organised an End of Summer Season Social on Saturday 30th October; meeting at the club from 7, a meal at the Casa Mia at 7:30, and drinks back at the club afterwards. Contact Jennifer or Orla or message the club if you want to join in.
https://www.dumfriescricketclub.com/calendar/event/womens-end-of-season-social--sat-oct-30th-498182

Fri 5th Nov - Monthly Friday Quiz Night
A Monthly Quiz Night for November through to March, on the first Friday of the month, starts on Friday the 5th November at 7pm. See
https://www.dumfriescricketclub.com/news/friday-night-is-quiz-night-2654165.html

More than cricket
Join our cricket club squash/racketball and tennis leagues for the off-season. Men's, Women's and Mixed. Contact dumfriescricketclub@gmail to register - leagues will operate in a ladder format. See https://www.dumfriescricketclub.com/news/make-a-racket-this-winter-2654176.html

Women and Girls Cricket
The Autumn Sunday Soft Ball Series continued last Sunday morning at Nunholm (11am) with Jo and newcomer Jenny as the top scoring batting pair and wickets, bowled, to Sarah and Jenny.

Do you want to take the first steps as a female coach? There is a female only coaches course coming up in December. We are wanting participants in all aspects of female cricket, so contact womenscricket@dumfriescricketclub.com .

ECB Foundation 1 Coach Course
Do you want to take the first steps as a coach? There is also the same Level 1 coaches course coming up in late November (Sat 27 Nov, Sat 4 Dec 2021). Contact the Club if interested.

Ground work
Our Ashleigh Building Ground Team are still going and this week they have been preparing our junior pitches for next season. (See the article photo with Simon and Trefor in action!).

Representative Cricket
Back on the road again, Orla is back to training with Scotland Women up in Glasgow on Mondays and has a team training camp this weekend in Dollar.

Men's T20 World Cup starts Sun 17th October
Scotland's first match is on Sunday against Bangladesh in the ICC Men's Twenty20 World Cup in Muscat, Oman (at 15:00PM). See www.t20worldcup.com #FollowScotland

They are in Group A with Bangladesh, PNG, and Oman and play them in that order. The top 2 sides get into the Super 12 stage with two groups of 6.

Scotland have been in the Middle-East for a couple of weeks and have won three 50 overs games against PNG and Oman, and have won four T20s, including beating PNG, lost one against Namibia, who they then defeated today.

The prospects are promising and if they finish second to Banglandesh they would play England, Australia, South Africa, West Indies and probably Sri Lanka.

The games can be seen live on Sky, clips and highlights on BBC, heard on radio and online on BBC Test Match Special and followed online @CricketScotland, #T20WorldCup e.g. www.twitter.com/cricketscotland