NESC News
A Shock in the Offing? – Jack Nixon on the Ashes
The outcome of the Ashes series is all but over if the results of the first two Tests are any real indicator, and yet if [read more]
Year: 2025
NESC News
Robin Smith – The One Who Got Away – Jack Nixon reflects
Just occasionally in the course of my cricket reporting I got to know the man yielding the bat, or swinging the ball, beyond his feats [read more]
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NESC 2025 AWARDS WINNERS AND GRADES DINNER
Friday evening saw the great and the good honoured at Mannofield at the annual Grades Dinner. Scotland international Michael Leask was on hand to present [read more]
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BON ACCORD TAKE GRADE 1 FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2019 AND HUNTLY HEARTBREAK IN SPCU.
And in the blink of a glass eye rolling across the stage at His Majesty’s Theatre, the curtain came down on the 2025 Grade 1 season with [read more]
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3 IN A ROW FOR KNIGHT RIDERS IN ABERDEENSHIRE CUP FINAL – Jack Nixon
Knight Riders became one of the few teams to win three consecutive Aberdeenshire Cup finals on Sunday when they held off the fierce challenge of [read more]
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A Cup to Cherish and Cheer – Jack Nixon
In all the years I have watched cricket in the North East, there is one competition above all that still excites and stirs the emotions, [read more]
Results and Match Reports
Implications of the Failure of the National Team by Jack Nixon
While club players and supporters obsess about their individual averages and the fortunes of their local team, they cannot have failed to notice the decline [read more]
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”Six Sixes In An Over for Smashing Sam” by Jack Nixon
Banchory captain and opening batsman Sam Rotheram became the first man in Grades cricket to hit six sixes in an over when in his side’s [read more]
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A Touch of Nostalgia at the Gordon Park, Ellon – Jack Nixon
Saturday saw the start of the second half of the season with all the games reaching a natural conclusion…except for the game at Ellon that [read more]
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Weather the Winner Or Is It? – Jack Nixon
The recent depressing return of the rain after the most glorious spells in April and May, in the very month usually associated with fine, dry [read more]