Strathmore Cricket Union: the first 90 years a history 1928-2018

156 people all their lives. He was much missed, and it was difficult to find anyone with a bad word to say about him. Six months later, Strathmore CC lost another of its great players of their glory era in Alan Traill. But the success story of 1996 was without doubt Stoneywood-Dyce. Mention has been made of their successful amalgamation, and they picked up the fruits in an astonishingly productive 1996 season in which they won the Strathmore Union and almost lifted the Scottish Cricket Union Trophy. Their professional was a man called Andy Bee, a good player but also a good leader and motivator of the rest of the teamwith special mention due to the Lamb brothers, David and Robert, Neil McHattie and Matt Cohen. Stoneywood-Dyce had to fight off a strong and determined challenge from Dundee High School FP and Inverurie, but they hit form just at the right time and won their games towards the end of the season. As important as anything was the creation of a good, hospitable atmosphere at the club which nourished and encouraged cricket in an unlikely looking ground on the fringes of Aberdeen Airport, where planes flew low overhead and where it was seldom easy for an Umpire to give a Stoneywood-Dyce - Union Champions 1996 Back David Lamb (Capt), Andy Bee (Coach), Grant Dugmore, Neil McHattie, Matthew Cohen, Shaun Coetzer, Andy Hamilton Front Robert Lamb, Brad Muller, Ian Hunter, Raymond Pirie, Adriaan de Waal