SURREY SCHOOLS’ ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Supporting Schools’ Cricket (FOR DETAILS SEE BACK PAGE)

www.ssca.org.uk

OFFICERS 2014 - 2015

President: Edward Handley MBE

Chairman: Phil Everest

Vice-Chairman: Richy Riseboro

Hon. Secretary: Simon Beck

Hon. Treasurer: Mike Barry

Hon. Competitions Secretaries: Phil Everest Jim Hammond Richard Riseboro Duncan White

Hon. Primary Secretary: Charles South

N.B. The Executive Council also co-opted Mrs Benta Hickley.

VICE PRESIDENTS:

J.D. Andrews B. Jones M.J. Stewart OBE

B.J. Aspital R.D.V. Knight OBE D.M. Verney

J.H. Edrich MBE A.R. Pannell D.M. Ward

M.J. Edwards P.I. Pocock

D.C. Haywood R.J. Somerford

SURREY SCHOOLS’ CRICKET ASSOCIATION thanks the following organisations for their support and assistance during the past year ESCA, RAM International, Surrey CCC, Surrey Cricket Foundation, Surrey Cricket Trust & also thanks the following clubs and schools for the use of facilities Banstead CC, CoL Freemen’s School, Cumnor House School, Horsley & Send CC, Malden Wanderers CC, Parkside School, Reigate Priory CC, Surrey CCC, Trinity School, Whitgift School

Chairman’s Remarks:

The last year has seen the sad passing of 3 of our longest-serving Vice-Presidents, David Fletcher (previously Manager of Surrey YC), Denis Jacobs and, recently, John Cope. Denis, always a champion of young cricketers from State schools, and a founding member of the Surrey Cricket Council, maintained his enthusiasm for youth cricket right up until his death last November. His family have now established The Denis Jacobs Youth Cricket Trust to support talented young cricketers. Regrettably, our Hon Treasurer, Mike Barry, and also Duncan White, have been forced to relinquish their posts due to failing health. I thank them both for many years of valuable service to this Association, and wish them well in their retirement. Entries for the inter-school competitions increased again for the 5th successive year. The weather was also very kind, allowing all competitions to be completed on time, with the exception of the 3 Plate Competitions. Trinity & Whitgift won 2 competitions each, with the other trophies going to Reed’s, Fullbrook, St George’s College, Cumnor House and Rokeby. Surrey schools did not fair well in the National competitions. Rokeby take pride of place by reaching the ESCA U11 Hardball Finals Day, but could only finish 4th behind Twyford School, King’s Hall (Taunton), and Leicester GS. Whitgift reached the Regional Final of the ECB/ESCA U15 Schools Championship before losing to Magdalene College. In the ECB/ESCA U15 T20, Trinity lost to Dulwich College in the Regional semi-final, and also lost to Watford GS at the same stage of the David English U13 Cup. The Plate Finals were all due to be played in the last week of term and all involved Wallington CGS. The matches were postponed following the death of a Wallington CGS student on a school rugby tour to Canada. Pride of place among the Surrey CAG squads goes to the U17 Boys’ who won the Royal London U17 One-Day Cup. The U15 Boys’ reached the Final of the corresponding U15 competition before losing to Lancashire. The U14 Boys’ and the U13 Girls’ both topped their Regional groups. Further details of CAG cricket can be found towards the back of this booklet. In the professional game, made his England ODI debut, and Zafar Ansari was selected in a Test party for the first time, only to miss out through injury. Surrey took the Div 2 Championship to return to Division 1 for next year with passing 1000 Championship runs for the first time. The Curran brothers grabbed most of the headlines with Tom being joint leading -taker in Div 2, selected for the ECB ED