The Strathmore Union was the main cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 league for clubs in the north and midlands of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 outside of the Scottish Counties Cricket Championship until the late 1990s. It is now one of four district feeder leagues to the Scottish National Cricket League

Scottish National Cricket League

The Scottish National Cricket League was formed for the 1999 season after a conference season in 1998. Clubs from the four main district leagues and the Scottish Counties Championship formed the league. The NoSCA and Aberdenshire Grades leagues stayed separate...

. It allowed the Perthshire League to join it in 2004, the Union's 75th anniversary. The Aberdeenshire Grades and the North of Scotland Cricket Association also run leagues in the Scotland north of Tayside.