The Freuchie Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the village of Freuchie, Scotland. The club was formed in 1908, and with some disruption in the war years, has been going strong ever since.

Brief History

Situated in the

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

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Freuchie Freuchie is a village in Fife, Scotland, at the foot of the Lomond Hills, and near Falkland. The nearest major town is Glenrothes located 4 miles to the south. The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic, ''fraoch'', meaning heather. This Fife ...

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. The

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

club plays a large role in

community life. The club's greatest moment of popular fame was the victory in the final of the National Village Championship at Lord's in 1985 against a side from Surrey. In the 1970s, virtually all games were friendlies against other village clubs, with the occasional friendly against one of the “big clubs” from

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; the club looked on these as major cricketing occasions, while the opponents thought them to be more of a social day out. Today
Freuchie Cricket Club
meet these teams on a very competitive basis. Two of the present “home-grown” players have played for Scotland's first team, while others have played at other representative levels. The 2006 season exemplified this rise in standards when the club began the year by winning the Media Sixes Indoor Six-a-Side tournament and went on to win the SNCL Division II championship with a game to spare. Meanwhile, the Second XI gained promotion from East League Division II, so this coming year sees the club competing in the first divisions of both the Scottish National (SNCL) and the East of Scotland (ESCA) leagues. The club's Centenary Year was in 2008.

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