Former Pupils’ Section 51), Michael Walker (1946-57), Neil Borthwick (1952-65), Ivor Douglas (195257), Douglas Skene (1959-64), Iain Hopkin (1962-68), Nigel Watt (1963-69), James Rust (1963-71), David Galloway (1976-82) and Martin Coulter (1983-89) The 2019 Yorkshire Centre dinner is being organised by David Galloway and Martin Coulter following the sad death of Doug Skene, as highlighted elsewhere in the Magazine. It will be held as a tribute to him, and to Wilson McIntosh and Dick Tyson, who also sadly passed away this year.
Section Reports Cricket 1st XI 2018 saw FPs take another leap forward in not only skill but competitiveness on the field. After the success of the previous season as 1st XI skipper, Rob Swiergon was aware that everyone would be gunning for FPs to knock them off the top. In the league we finished second to Bon Accord who now know they have a fierce adversary in FPs. Our success through the season was down to our team effort, something which has helped the team stand out from many of our competitors. Naturally within the team we had some stand out performers; Karan Anand our prolific all-rounder finished the season with an average over 80 and rightly picked up the League Batting trophy for his efforts. He scored 731 runs at an average of 81.2 and this included two centuries, one a blistering 177 not out against Grampian in the Cup and another fine 103 not out against Crescent. He also made a scarcely believable 99 not out to single handedly defeat Knightriders, when all had looked completely lost. Having expertly farmed the bowling in adding 33 for the 9th wicket with Roland Knudson, he then combined with John Thomson to add 35 for the last wicket, Thomson facing one ball for 0 not out. It was a masterful innings and incredibly timed but with 25 needed off the last two overs, the game appeared to be slipping away. It mattered not as Anand smashed a tile off the pavilion roof with an enormous six, hammered a one bounce four over mid-wicket and pushed a single off the last ball to get back on strike for the final over. 14 were needed from the last over but that was destroyed in just 3 balls, a huge maximum over mid-wicket, a pull over square leg for 4, before the coup-degrace, an monstrous six straight back over the bowler’s head to seal an incredible win. Earlier he had claimed 4 for 23 in a true man of the match effort. As well as being top batsman, he was also top bowler with 34 wickets at 13.4. Experienced opener Alex Keith also rolled back the years guiding FPs to some very good starts averaging 41 for the club through the year. He finally made a century for the club with 122 not out in a 20/20 game against Montrose as we 53
