A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUMMOND
Drummond Cricket club were founded in 1982 by a bunch of friends who played cricket for fun in the Meadows and went for a drink afterwards to a bar in the Southside's Drummond Street. After a couple of seasons of friendlies and social games,they applied for membership of the East of Scotland League entering it's then lowest Division 4, in 1984. Their first game at the Meadows was a victory against fellow debutantes Livingston, with Dave Milliken hitting his one and only half century for the club to steer us to victory. The Meadows was the usual venue for home games in the early days before the club gravitated north to Inverleith Park as the 1980s progressed. When playing away from Edinburgh the habitual meeting place was the Fiddler's Pub in the Grassmarket (good pub, sadly no more - but highly impractical with no parking and ideally placed for car convoys to get snarled up in city centre traffic!) Victories were in short supply in our early years in the East League when Drummond often finished at, or near the foot of the table. Nevertheless, the Club always had a strong reputation for being better players than our results generally suggested and for good sportsmanship on the field and for getting the rounds in off it!
1988 saw the Club reach the Quarter Finals of the national Small Clubs Cup and generally results improved as the decade drew to a close. In 1993 we finished second and were promoted to Division 3 under the captaincy of Ted Coutts. Unfortunately we struggled with the step up and were relegated in second bottom place straight away. Generally we competed in the upper reaches of the lowest division for most of the 1990s winning more games than we lost until League reconstruction in 1999 saw us placed in Division 5 of the new set up. Most of us thought that was about right but we contrived to have a terrible end-of-season run which coincided with our closest rivals the OCs winning everything, and we were surprisingly relegated in Season 2000 to Division 6.
That low point was soon forgotten as the Club went on its most successful run ever. Firstly winning Division 6 at a canter, then being promoted straight out of Division 5 as runners-up narrowly to Preston Village in 2002. In 2003 we played probably some of the best team cricket in our lives to win Division 4 narrowly from Holy Cross 2s, a run which included 4 or 5 victories batting first (in the days of drawn matches no mean feat) at the tail end of the season. Our first year at the exalted level of Division 3 was a rough baptism and we only held our place thanks to a dogged victory over relegation rivals Carnegie and the fact that only 1 club was relegated that season. It had also been the first season we tried to run a Second XI which had also stretched the Club's resources considerably. That close season a merger was negotiated with Trinity to form the new Drummond Trinity CC...and the rest as they say, is history.
Below are links to (sadly incomplete - but quite amusing) Drummond Cricket Club records 1984 - 2003.
IndividualCareerStats.doc
ALLtime-various.doc
ALLTIMEINDIVIDUALTOP10.doc
Stats1985.doc
Stats1986.doc
Stats1988.doc
Stats1989.doc
Stats1990.doc
Stats1991.doc
Stats1992.doc
Stats1994.doc
Stats 1999.doc
Stats2000.doc
Stats2002.doc
Stats 2003.doc
Stats2005.doc
Stats1984.doc