A SPECIAL ceremony took place before the start of Selkirk’s match against Westquarter & Redding CC at Philiphaugh on Saturday, when a bench in memory of George Oliver was unveiled by his widow Anne.
Mr Oliver, who died last June at the age of 95, was known as Selkirk’s ‘Mr Cricket’. He was the Selkirk club’s most passionate supporters, attending his first match as a 10-year-old in 1936, and rarely missing a home fixture over the next 86 years.
George would always sit in the same spot on the ground’s southern boundary wall, just a short distance from his and Anne’s home in Ettrickhaugh Road. The new memorial bench has been placed on the exact spot.
Saturday’s unveiling was jointly carried out by Selkirk CC chair Neil Gentleman and Mrs Oliver, watched by members of the Oliver family, friends, neighbours and Selkirk players.
