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Vic,
Yes we have. Many forumites know of Jeff (Weedy) Maguire. He is your typical clubman. Always wanting the best for Dundrum. Bollocking players for not turning up at practice. Enticing young people to the club, always on the look out for new signings. Dealing with the press, etc. Dundrum CC would not be the same if he wasn't involved. It's a pity his tips for the gee gees are poor though.... lol
Congratulations to all involved on the excellent news regarding the most welcome funding Woodvale CC have received for ground development.
A big "Thank You" to all involved in securing the funds. All your hard work and effort paid off.
Some great plans put forward regarding the development of the Ballygomartin Road ground.
Looking forward to some exciting times ahead. On AND Off the field.
Maybe the club could forward us some further details...
Cheers Stevie,I think like yourself there's alot of fun and pleasure gained from cricket,not just from playing ourselves, but playing with and helping bring on the younger players too.
And ofcourse in the case of our Gerald and a few others in our club,playing with the more senior guys who apart from themselves don't realise that their best playing days are long since gone, and still wonder why they are not opening the bowling,batting etc.
I'm sure Dundrum and many other clubs have characters just like that as well!
gordon no such game as hurly and we have more south africans in irish team than england do
Vic Jons - Poet Laureate 2009
It was the Creamline Cup of 73'
When he made local histor'ee
Against Waringstown he had 10 for 33,
The fast bowler,they could not tame
Yes Gerald Johnston was the name!!
Thats what he tells me anyway Greg??
good to see an irish man top score for england last week with eoin morgan batting superbly i seen a few hockey and hurly shots in his stroke play maybe k.p has got a few tips from him as i dont think they play hurly in south africa when he was growing up or mr trot either.lol
Ivan
How many of those former cricketers gave the game up because the matches weren't long enough?
Greg, a few seasons later Robin Beggs took all 10 wickets for Carrick v Templepatrick. A slow bowler, Robin only opened the bowling that day because one of the normal openers arrived late as he had a puncture on the way. More recently Ryan Eagleson took 9 for Carrick v Cregagh but was denied the chance of taking all 10 as Cregagh only had ten men!
Ten wickets thats some bowling
Has anybody else ever come close to that since then in any league of the NCU
Answers please
Roger, billy still tells the story and stevy says he took the catch of his life diving in from the boundary to look up and everybody congratulating billy on taking the whole 10 wkts
When you see the lists of clubs no longer in existence it makes you think again of the debate on more or less cricket. It looks like we are already playing less cricket and have a lot less cricketers.
Jason, I remember playing for Carrick v Banbridge in a Section 6 match in the mid seventies. They played at the High School ground and when we arrived they were cutting the wicket using a hand lawnmower! This team didn't last long but I believe there may have been a Banbridge team in the NCU before this. Millpark were certainly going strong at the same time, as it was around this time that they bowled us out for 14 in the Junior cup with Billy McCart taking all ten wickets!
anyone know what happened to banbridge cc??? with millpark being just outside banbridge did we take over???
interesting list from PLO'H - I can add RAF Bishops Court to it - but I WAS very young at the time!!
