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”Another Season” by Jack Nixon
The sudden rise in the temperature has served to remind me that the 2026 cricket season is fast approaching, though after 78 years of watching [read more]
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ONLY ONE WINNER – Jack Nixon
The magnificent performance of India in the final of the recent T20 World Cup, went a long way to underlining the massive gulf existing between [read more]
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SAD NEWS – THE LATE JOHN AND DOROTHY HITCHEN
JACK NIXON REFLECTS ON THE PASSING OF JOHN AND DOROTHY HITCHEN Followers of the game of cricket in the North East of Scotland have been [read more]
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Hopes and Fears for Scotland in the T20 World Cup – Jack Nixon Cricket Scotland
Introduction before contribution from Jack – If Cricket Scotland had any champagne sitting at CS HQ at Ravelston then they would have been thoroughly justified [read more]
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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]
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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]