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

82 (although Gordon Laing of Meigle won the Batting Award as the best amateur) but it was the fine side of Meigle who won the Championship. The village club had many fine players like Bob Peters, Gordon Laing and Sandy Pattullo and completed their season with the loss of only one game. Brechin came second. Strathmore XI continued their fine consistent form (which they had shown all through the 1950s) in the 2nd XI Championship and won it again along with the Two Counties Cup, while Mannofield XI won the Three Counties Cup. At a representative level, the Union played fixtures against Grange, Bermudan XI and the Scottish Counties. They drew with the Scottish Counties and the Bermudan XI, led and captained by old Aberdeenshire favourite Alma Hunt, and had a fine win against Grange in Edinburgh. Such high profile games were now, at last, assuming more importance, for the Strathmore Union often felt that it had a point to prove, with quite a few independent journalists beginning to ask questions about the paucity of Scotland caps awarded to Strathmore Union players. Meigle - Strathmore Union Champions 1961 Back:- P M Drummond (V-Pres), R Kidd (Groundsman), R Peters, D Thomson, A Pattullo, M Morris, B Matthews, J Urquhart (Ump), S Easson (Scorer) Front:- N Whitelaw, J R Laing, W D Scott (Capt), G Ovenstone (Pres), J G B Laing (V-Capt), A Reid, G Gerrie