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Weirs Cricket Club
Weirs Cricket Club is a Scottish cricket club based in Newlands in the Southside of Glasgow. The club is part of Weirs Recreation Club, alongside Weirs Bowling Club, Weir Recreation Tennis Club and Weir Recreation Amateur Football Club. The club play its home matches at Albert Park, Kintore Road, Glasgow. Weirs are members of the Western District Cricket Union.

History
After World War One the Glasgow engineering firm of G. & J. Weir Ltd decided to set up a sporting club for the benefit of their employees. They chose an area of ground bounded on two sides by the White Cart River situated at the end of their Cathcart based engineering complex. Weir Recreation Club was instituted in 1919 and formally opened by Prince Albert, the future George VI, in 1923. The tree he planted is still a feature of the ground. The club offered bowls, cricket, football, hockey, putting, quoits and tennis. The cricket club played friendlies for the first few decades until the 1960’s when league cricket came to Albert Park for the first time. The club’s most successful period was between the early 1980’s and the early 2000’s. In 2019, during the club’s centenary year, Weirs CC won promotion to the highest division of Saturday cricket for the first time in their history.

Teams
The first team play in the First Division of the Western District Cricket Union. The second team is named after the ground, Albert Park. The club also competes in the Sunday and Evening Leagues.

Centenary Year
The club celebrated its centenary in 2019. As part of the celebrations a one day match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) took place at Albert Park on 28 July 2019 which Weirs won.