Tag Archives: Duthie Park

2nds Go Down Fighting at Portcullis

The Second XI’s opening away match this season was at the Duthie Park against Portcullis. Our large squad fluctuated from ten available on Friday morning to thirteen by Saturday lunchtime. Eventually there were four changes from the washed out opening match, Mutu was unavailable, Phillips had work commitments, Houghton was hospitalised with hopefully a non-Mexican strain of chickenpox, and Blyth was planning his forthcoming wedding.

FP’s had two debutants, Kamran and Raam, Mike Hart made his annual comeback and Raj travelled up from Edinburgh to help us out again.

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Crescent (A) 19th July

The team to play Crescent at the Duthie Park showed five changes from our last match at Kintore. Magesh, Murray, Fraser and Blyth were all unavailable, and in came Ben Frizzel, Harry Houghton making his debut, Junaid, and two of Karthik’s friends Pradeep and Murali (no, not that one) volunteered to help us out.
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FPs held by Academy

FPs were unable to force a victory against Academy after a determined display by the Academy batsmen. FPs did however get the better of the draw collecting maximum batting and draw points as well as picking up 9 wickets. With Knudson and Clelland both unavailable, it was stand in skipper Morrison who lost the toss and FPs were asked to bat. With all other games off at the Duthie Park, it was a very wet pitch which greeted openers Lord and Budd. Continue reading

Anchorians (A) 14th June

The 2nd XI team selection was finalised around Saturday lunchtime for the away match against Anchorians at the Duthie Park, but amazingly showed only four changes to the eleven involved in the thrilling tie against Dunecht the previous week. Nick Blyth , Rory Annand and Junaid were unavailable, Rizwan was promoted to the firsts.

They were replaced by three friends of Magesh’s who were in Aberdeen for the weekend, Badri, Deepak and Dradeep and Mike Hart also generously volunteered to come in to make a rare appearance.
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