Head's Newsletter 5 May 2017

While the A team raised their game to match the Emanuel year 8s, the U12B team did likewise against the U13B. They chased the Emanuel total with a couple of overs to spare with Rasnaam Grover the stand-out performer with both bat and ball. It is with great excitement that we prepare for the season ahead, starting with fixtures against John Fisher and Hampton this week. Fencing British Youth Championships Luca Plastow came 2nd at the Fencing British Youth Championships on Saturday in the U16 foil category. En route to the final he managed to knock out the favourite in the semi-finals, only to fall just short at the final hurdle.

U12 Cricket The 2017 season, and indeed the Year 7s involvement in school cricket, got off to a very positive start last Saturday against Emanuel School. Following a minor mix-up in communications, instead of the U12A team, we faced their U13A. Unfazed, we took to the field and bowled and fielded superbly well, restricting them to 74 all out in 25 overs. Alex Cormack bowled a particularly impressive and aggressive opening spell of quick bowling. He was well supported at the other end by Shivan Aggarwal. Alex came back on for the penultimate over and took three more wickets to return figures of 4 overs, 2 maidens, 4 for 4. Iain Westbrook and Matthew Bennett bowled very frugally and it was pleasing to see Chirag Patel and Farhaan Shaikh flight the ball with confidence against the more powerful U13 opponents.

The jubilant U12A team on completion of an 8 wicket win

Datta Vasireddy and Ashwin Bose then made light work of the run chase. They put together a partnership of 46 in 10 overs and it fell to Iain Westbrook to hit the winning boundary in the 15 th over of our innings. Datta batted with great style and confidence throughout, finishing not out 41.