Cricket
Sports Excellence Cricket I f I could choose one word to describe this year’s often changed cricket programme, I would - like most modern day cricketers - use the word ‘adaptability’. We unfortunately missed out on a summer of school cricket last year and, although we were able to offer cricket nets for the remaining four weeks of last year’s Summer Term, the school was unable to play matches despite the hours of training during the winter months. For this reason, we welcomed being able to play fixtures in the new academic year and played five matches throughout September. We recorded two losses and three wins including an impressive five wicket win against the prestigious MCC on Tuesday 15th September 2020. Duncan Moore (73*) and Archie Ralph-Harding (3-25) were the standout performers which gained us our first win against the MCC since 2006. After accepting the position of Deputy Head, Mr Moulton was unable to continue his 1st XI manager position. The ‘Tom Moulton Bell’ was created in recognition of Mr Moulton’s dedication and service to cricket at the College and was presented on Friday 11th September after a fixture against the Old Lawrentians. After our last cricket match, the Sports Excellence (SE) cricketers moved onto a six week fitness programme to begin athletic development improvements for the following summer. Military fitness,
cross country, personal survival and stage combat, to mention a few, helped to develop key components of fitness such as endurance, footwork and strength. All SE
did, however, achieve 42 hours of cricket nets during these three weeks where we caught up on missed time. This meant that although a lot of nets were done in the
cricketers did well and many achieved personal bests in cross country and personal survival. The ‘1 on 1’ net programme started off well in the
Michaelmas Term, our cricketers had another long pause in their programme. To combat this, Mr Jones and Mr Simmons created six weeks of lockdown cricket videos that
‘This programme is designed to be more than just nets and training. We look to develop all their skill sets, knowledge of the game and athletic development.’
Michaelmas Term. Due to another lockdown, we were unable to restart cricket nets until three weeks before the Easter break. We
were uploaded onto Teams. With a different theme each week, we focused on various skills and drills that the pupils could do
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