Heriots Cricket Club
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| Union | Cricket Scotland |
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| Founded | 1889 |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Ground(s) | Goldenacre Sports Ground |
| President |
 Chris Middleton |
| Coach(es) |
Peter Ross |
| Captain(s) |
Keith Morton |
| League(s) | Eastern Premier Division |
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Heriot's Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
George Heriot’s School Former Pupils Cricket Club, now known as Heriot's Cricket Club, was founded at a meeting held in the well-known Edinburgh school George Heriot's School on 5 December 1889. The foundation took some months before that of the Former Pupils Rugby Club in October 1890, Heriot's Rugby Club so the Cricket Club is the senior Heriots Former Pupils Club. Its first home was the almost as new but not very lovely or spacious Logie Green (also known as Puddocky thanks to a local population of frogs), the school sports ground in the Warriston district of Edinburgh. The move to the present ground at Goldenacre, Goldenacre less than half a mile away, was completed in 1902. The ground’s fine red-brick pavilion, which still dominates the main square as well as commanding a magnificent view of Edinburgh, also dates back to that time. The very first delivery at Goldenacre, by William White of Heriot's, produced a simple caught-and-bowled chance, promptly grassed – not the last easy catch to be dropped at the ground.
The Club has always had at least two regular elevens, and often three or four, as well as an important and continuing link with Heriot’s School and its teams through junior sides. That said, some of its earliest members were not Herioters, including its first Scottish cap, prolific batsman John Mushet (who played once, against Australia in 1912). Other members were teachers at the School. Mushet aside, probably the Club’s finest early player was John Waddell, who inaugurated a tradition of outstanding spin bowling (left-arm, in Waddell’s case) and took nearly 300 wickets in six seasons before his early death in 1899. The Club groundsman was also usually a competent player, who would play for the team as the "professional". This tradition continued until the 1970s, with leading names including David "Pa" Nicoll, Arthur Creber and George Waites. By 1914, when play was stopped by the outbreak of war across Europe, the fixture list included most of Scotland’s leading clubs outside the already existent Western Union.
After the First World War, Heriot's FP emerged as one of the leading Clubs in the east of Scotland. The playing facilities at Goldenacre expanded to their present dimensions with two, sometimes three, squares. Several talented players appeared, such as batsman Alec Bateman, off-spinner Alex Gordon, opening bowler Jack Nicoll, and aggressive all-rounder Sid Plowright. But only two were capped, all-rounder Charles Groves and Club professional Arthur Creber, a quick bowler who has the only "all-10" in the First XI’s history. Wicketkeeper Lindsay Mitchell would later become an influential figure as master in charge of cricket at the School, especially in the period after 1950 when a flood of playing talent emerged to inaugurate the Club’s most successful period on the field, between 1966 and 1985.
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