Clydesdale Cricket Club

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1 Clydesdale Cricket Club Western Province Cricket Club

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3 Saturday December Sunday 10 December Monday December Tuesday December Wed 13 Dec Thursday December Friday 15 December Saturday December MATCH #1 at Wally Wilson Oval, Western Province CC (14.00 GMT) FULTON S FLYERS v Langa Cricket Club OPENING CEREMONY at Newlands Cricket Ground MATCH TO BE LIVE-STREAMED No Game for Fulton s Flyers: probable visit to Table Mountain (15.00 GMT) Charity Match at Wally Wilson Oval MATCH #2 at YMCA Oval, Western Province CC (12.20 GMT) FULTON S FLYERS v Tech Republic MATCH #3 at Gary Kirsten Oval, Western Province CC (10.00 GMT) FULTON S FLYERS v The 2nd XI OFFICIAL DAY OFF for all teams MATCH #4 at Western Province Cricket Club EITHER Last 16 in Championship KO competition OR Last 16 in Plate KO competition FULTON S FLYERS v A N Other team TBA CHAMPIONSHIP LIVE-STREAMED If progress from previous day MATCH #5 at Western Province Cricket Club Quarter-final in Championship or Plate competition FULTON S FLYERS v A N Other team TBA CHAMPIONSHIP LIVE-STREAMED If progress from previous day MATCHES #6/7 at Western Province Cricket Club Semi-Finals and Finals in Championship or Plate competition TROPHY PRESENTATION AND CLOSING CEREMONY CHAMPIONSHIP LIVE-STREAMED

4 CITY LODGE HOTEL NEWLANDS CRICKET STADIUM WPCC

5 YMCA Wally Wilson WPCC Gary Kirsten Vineyards

6 PATRICK BARBOUR, age 25, led Fulton s Flyers to the Scottish Championships in 2016, securing a place in these World Championships. 1 Acutely aware of the game situation as it develops over-by-over, he opens the batting and breaks partnerships with his slow turners. This year, he completed a round-the-world solo adventure in three months. ARUN KRISHNA, also 25, born in India, has just qualified as a doctor. He is a world traveller - and a reliable LMS all-rounder. A regular member of 5 the Clydesdale Cricket Club 1st XI this past season, in one LMS game in 2016, he recorded a personal ton (after the rest of the team had collapsed)! His performances are positively surgical ANDREW SCOBIE, 26, is an accountant, a sporting all-rounder - a reliable hockey goal-keeper and last season s first-choice wicket-keeper for 3 Clydesdale s 1st XI. A hard-hitting orthodox batsman and, when not keeping, an outstanding fielder who holds - nearly - all his catches. Occasionally, he likes to show he can bowl a bit as well. SHERYAR AWAN, 22, has just qualified in accountancy at the University of Aberdeen, with an imaginative approach to life and this particular 13 Championship. A regular Clydesdale 2nd XI opener, he is an inventive batsman with attitude, ideally suited to the wacky LMS rules, and a useful medium-paced bowler. CALUM DRUMMOND, 21, was born in South Africa with a British passport, and a Scottish father who is a keen follower of cricket. A 8 Clydesdale regular in his second-year at Loughborough, Calum made his debut in the university s first-team squad in 2016, contributing with ball and bat, and has racked up 10 LMS appearances in two years. BILLY PIRZADA, 25, a cheerful chappie, full of enthusiasm, a late developer, but ambitious for success. A fast bowler, not always on target, 14 and a deceptively practical batsman with plenty of power, he took two magnificent running catches in the LMS demo game in Glasgow in April - including that of Herschelle Gibbs!

7 GORDON MUNRO, 30, has been an estate agent with a top Glasgow firm, but is currently taking a sabbatical. An international Scotland hockey 15 prospect in his teens/early 20s, he returned to cricket through LMS in An enterprising if unorthodox batsman and an athletic fielder who should never be underestimated. KASIM FARID, 31, was the first Scottish-born Asian to captain Scotland at any level, when he led the team that played in the U19 World Cup in A dogged batsman and scheming off-spinner, he still plays regularly for Clydesdale s 1st XI - so did his two older brothers, while 15-year-old Arman is also keen on the game. OWAIN TAYLOR, 18, has just returned from a post-school three-month solo trip to the USA. For Clydesdale, he plays regularly in the 2nd XI, and is a lively all-rounder, great runner between the wickets, and fantastic fielder. His cheerful character keeps us all happy, and he s an awesome quizzer, whether general knowledge or sport.

8 This Glasgow-based online TV production and digital services company was founded in 2011 with cricket s needs in mind. Now, we have covered 30 different sports, at venues all over the world, and continue to champion those that are routinely ignored by mainstream broadcasters. Working with established social media platforms, we often deliver huge audiences for our clients and are proud to have played our part in promoting Last Man Stands over the past three years. For the LMS World Championships 2017 in Cape Town, QTV Sports is live-streaming all 29 matches from the Wally Wilson Oval. Follow coverage on Facebook and at CLYDESDALE CRICKET CLUB As the oldest team sports club in Scotland s largest city, Clydesdale and its Members have been pleased to support FULTON S FLYERS and wish them every success in the 2017 Last Man Stands World Championships. Clydesdale has been the host venue for Fulton s Flyers.

9 MIKE STANGER, 75, the Tour Manager for the Fulton s Flyers squad in Cape Town, was born in East London, South Africa, when his mother was evacuated from Cairo during World War II. He has played cricket since the age of 9, and has often had to step in to make up the LMS team numbers when 75 players dropped out at short notice. He is a qualified cricket coach whose son Ian, now living in Australia, won 122 caps for Scotland, including four in the 1999 World Cup. Fulton s Flyers are so-called because their principal sponsor is the HF (Hugh Fulton) Group, the electrical and plumbing services company based in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, where our hosts, Clydesdale Cricket Club (logo shield, right), are located. The name also suited the 2016 squad, because their usual captain was PE teacher Neil Fulton, whose school commitments have preempted any part in this year s LMS activities in what was a rain-ruined season. FF, created last season, won the inaugural LMS West of Scotland League, then won the 2016 Scottish Championships. This gave them the opportunity this year to represent Scotland at the LMS World Championships in Cape Town. They will be competitive. STEVE TAYLOR, 56, is the Fulton s Flyers Team and Match Manager for this Tour - a Welshman. He, too, is a qualified cricket coach, who has steered Clydesdale Cricket Club s U13s to the top of their Western Union 13 league in most of the last 10 years. He has also played LMS for the Flyers, and his son, Owain, is one of the squad of players for the World Championships. SAM DENNIS, 18, is the Tour Manager s grandson, and fills the role of Coaching Assistant to the squad. At age 16, he 7 qualified as a Level 1 Football Association coach, and has his sights set on pursuing this as a career choice when he leaves school. He has played cricket, but quickly recognised he lacks his uncle s skills. FULTON S FLYERS v HERSCHELLE GIBBS BIG GUNS at Clydesdale CC, April 2017

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12 Newlands Cricket Stadium LMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 CAPE TOWN ACTIVITY SCHEDULE Day 1 - Saturday 9 December - Pool Matches followed by (17.00 GMT) World Championships Opening Ceremony Cocktail Evening at the Newlands International Cricket Ground (Dress: Jeans and LMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 POLO shirts) If you think you re beaten, then you are. If you think you dare not, then you don t. If you d like to win, but think you can t, then it s almost certain you won t. Life s battles don t always go to the stronger or faster man. But, sooner or later THE MAN WHO WINS IS THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN.

13 Western Province Cricket Club Wally Wilson Oval Day 2 - Sunday 10 December - Pool Matches followed by (15.00 GMT) Gary Kirsten Foundation Charity Match at the Wally Wilson Oval, Western Province CC Day 3 - Monday 11 December - Pool Matches Day 4 - Tuesday 12 December - Pool Matches Day 5 - Wednesday 13 December - Rest or Rain catch-up Day Day 6 - Thursday 14 December - Last 16 knockout matches (Championship and Plate competitions) Day 7 - Friday 15 December - Quarter-Final matches (Championship and Plate competitions) Day 8 - Saturday 16 December - Semi-Final matches (morning) (12.20 GMT) Plate Final at the Wally Wilson Oval (15.00 GMT) Championship Final at the Wally Wilson Oval

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15 V & A Waterfront City Lodge Hotel

16 ADVERT We wish fulton s flyers all the best Come back World Champions - like us!

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18 This is the fifth overseas cricket tour I have organised for Scottish teams. It is the third to South Africa which is maybe not too surprising as I was born here during World War II. But it was 60 years before my first return visit in 2002 with the best of the West of Scotland U19 youngsters in tow. In 2003 I returned with the best U18s from my Glasgow club, Clydesdale. The first tour was to India in 1995, after former Aberdeenshire professional Kailash Gattani, who somehow managed to bring his Star Club of top U19 Indian cricketers (such as Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid) to the UK each year, challenged us to reciprocate. Our captain for that U21 West of Scotland tour was Craig Wright, later a most successful Scotland captain. Every tour is different. The last tour I organised was the least successful - to Sydney and Brisbane in because it rained, persistently, in both places. Yet that team included Kasim Farid, who is one of our LMS squad for these World Championships and was Scotland s captain in the U19 World Cup. Another was Richie Berrington, born in South Africa but raised in Scotland, who is now Scotland s most prolific international batsman. Why he has not been picked up by one of the English counties continues to be a mystery. Most of our LMS squad are, or have been, players at Clydesdale, the oldest team sports club in Glasgow and the third oldest top cricket club in Scotland. When we became LMS Scottish champions in 2016 (our first season of existence in the LMS firmament), nearly all of these guys were regular 2nd XI players. In season 2017, much ravaged by rain, all but two appeared regularly for our club s top team. For LMS - and me - that seems to me to be a compliment, and a justification. But, at age 75, this will be the last cricket tour that I organise. It s time for others to take over, hopefully having seen how to make it work - and what fun it is. One other bit of fun on this occasion is the squad s playing kit, illustrated here. It s my choice and fault entirely, but I hope it takes a trick with the help of QTV Sports, the Glasgow-based live-streaming company that s covering these games online. It reminds me of the huge success in 2002 of Scottish cricket s original blue-and-white saltire shirt, which became a best seller to fans - that s football fans, not cricket! So watch out for another unlikely impact on the haute couture of Scottish sport - the LMS tartan-andsaltire trousers!

19 The players and coaches who are travelling to cape town for the last man stands world championships acknowledge with thanks the generous travel grants received from IAN ANDERSON and many other members of CLYDESDALE CRICKET CLUB AMMAR ASHRAF (East Renfrewshire Cricket Club) PAUL REDDISH and COLIN MILLS (LMS Scotland) CON DE LANGE, RICHIE BERRINGTON, CALUM MacLEOD (Scotland internationalists) JOE SIMPSON (Scottish Hockey internationalist) JULIAN TAYLOR (Shanghai) JACK McGILL, SETH EDWARDS (QTV Sports)

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