Post-war Era
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.
There was no East League until 1953. Once formed, however, Heriot's FP immediately became one of its leading sides, regularly challenging for the title of champions, although with no ultimate success for many years. The bowling attack was spearheaded by international fast bowlers Jim Souness and George Miller when available; Ken Scotland, more famous as one of the many Herioter Scotland rugby full-backs, was also capped at cricket in 1955. The Club had strength in depth too, with the Second XI winning its league (the Grade A) four times between 1954 and 1960. On the social side, a crucial development was the licensing of a bar in the Club pavilion, the main mover being long-time member and later Club President Jim Adair.
Towards the end of the 1950s there emerged from the School Heriot’s two most famous cricketers: off-spinning all-rounder George Goddard and opening batsman/wicketkeeper Hamish More. With their maturing influence ever more apparent, Heriot's FP finally won the East League for the first time in 1966, and went on to take the title again in 1969 and 1970. Goddard and More became the first Herioters to hold down regular places in the Scotland side: More scored his first international century in 1969, while Goddard was eventually appointed Scotland captain in 1974.
Read more about this topic: Heriots Cricket Club
Famous quotes containing the words post-war and/or era:
“Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney.” Mr. Wallace’s warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.”
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)