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Melrose Cricket Club   Welcome Melrose Cricket Club is a club with a proud tradition of cricket in the Borders. Come and visit us to play, spectate and support or get your children playing with our qualified coaches. We will be very happy to see you. Club history Melrose Cricket pitch with the Eildon Hills beyond Cricket was first recorded in the area as being played at Darnick at the Highfield Academy a local school in the 1850's. From 1933 onwards the present site, one of the most scenic in the Borders, was leased from General Sir Maxwell Scott, the great great grandson of novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott of nearby Abbotsford. At this time, it was often used to host an Abbotsford team which played against teams raised from other estates in the area and teams from Melrose itself. The Borders General Hospital, as seen in the photograph above, was built next to the cricket pitch in the 1980s. Paradoxically this development actually increased the pitch area! A new hospital car park was built next to the pitch in 2009 which has also improved cricket parking.

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