The West of Scotland Cricket Club is a large cricket club based in Glasgow, Scotland. Their ground is Hamilton Crescent located in the Partick area of Glasgow's West End. The current Chairman of the cricket club is Tony Lewis.
West of Scotland, traditionally, are one of the working class cricket clubs in Glasgow and on a summer's day there can be quite a jovial, rowdy, yet well informed support on the famous banking. At the moment West boasts of the ultra talented, powerful opener Douglas Lockhart. Lockhart is a member of the Scotland side as well as being a former Oxford UCCE player and having had trials with Derbyshire.
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