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KES Cricket Week

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KES played their annual cricket week in fantastic weather, recording 3 victories out of 4, only losing to the Old Edwardians.

 

The highlight of Cricket Week was a memorable 8 wicket victory against the MCC. A weakened KES bowling line up saw MCC score 300-4 at more than a run a ball, however, a school record unbeaten 238 run partnership won the match for KES.

The match winners were Captain Will Collier who scored his maiden century in all forms of cricket (104* off 89 balls) and Sam Mount who scored his third consecutive hundred (124* off 131 balls). Their match winning partnership came from only 214 balls.

 

There were also wins against Yarra Valley from Melbourne Australia, and the XL 40 Club. Yarra Valley scored 201 all out, with the wickets shared around but opening batsman Olly Metcalfe (83 not out) saw KES home by 5 wickets.

 

In a similar game, XL 40 Club scored 211 all out and again Metcalfe was the star scoring his maiden century sharing a partnership of 139 with Will Collier (68 not out) to win the match by 8 wickets. Metcalfe finished on 108 not out.

 

Cricket Week finishes off another successful season for KES senior cricket, unbeaten in T20 cricket in Bath for the third year running. Sam Mount scored 663 runs at an average of 74 and topped the bowling with 18 wickets at 19. Captain Will Collier finished off his school career scoring his 1000th run for the first team.




England Hockey select KES student

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King Edward’s School student Eugene Malthouse has been selected to represent the England U18 hockey squad.

Malthouse,  who was captain of KES 1st XI hockey team this season and a member of Bath Buccs 1st Xi National League side, will join the England squad on Wednesday to play a three test match series  in Germany this weekend. On returning from Germany the KES superstar is then scheduled to travel to Ireland to play in the Home Nations Tournament later this month.

 

Malthouse,  who will earn his 1st international cap this weekend, will also play a key role in England’s short corner attack as their number one drag flick specialist.

 

Louisa Gwilliam, Director of Sport at King Edward’s School, commented that “Eugene Malthouse is first KES student to play hockey for England and his selection is just reward for all of his hard work and effort over recent years. He is a credit to the school and we wish him every success this summer.”




KES T20 Bath Champions for the 3rd Year running

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Congratulations to the T20 team that continue their impressive record of results in this format versus teams from Bath and Bristol. Since the competition started three years ago, KES have now played 9 and won 9. The only game KES have lost in 3 years was against Kings Taunton, who went on to become eventual National winners last year.

Semi Final v Prior Park: KES 165-6 beat PP 125-8 by 40 runs.

Having got off to a brisk start, the match winning partnership was from Will Collier (66 from 46 balls) and Olly Metcalfe (36 from 32). Their 4th wicket stand of 79 in 57 balls set up the total of 165. Prior were never really in the hunt and lost wickets regularly. Metcalfe started the ball rolling with the key wicket of Seth Tapsfield caught at slip for 1, but Rupert Morgan finished off any hopes they had with the key spell of 4-0-25-3 in the middle overs.

 Final v Kingswood: KES 195-3 beat KW 140-9 by 55 runs.

KES won the toss and batted first for the second time in the day. Losing Will Wales early brought Sam Mount to the crease and for the next 60 minutes it was carnage. Starting off with a partnership of 71 off 8 overs with Collier (35 off 23) and then 89 off the next 7.4 overs with Nick Green (19 off 20), Sam Mount crushed Kingswood hopes with controlled hitting and intelligent placement.His first 50 came up off 29 balls, his hundred 24 balls later. Hitting the last 4 balls for 6,4,6,6 Mount finished on 115 not out off 55 balls.

The Kingswood reply would be built around Harry Rouse who had scored a quickfire 100 in the semi final. Again Metcalfe got the first wicket and Rouse came to the crease and promptly hit his first 2 balls for 4. However in the next 5 overs KES set excellent fields and bowled good areas to restrict Rouse to only facing 3 more balls. By the time he faced his 6th ball the run rate was up to 12 an over and he was caught by a diving Will Collier off Rupert Morgan to effectively end the match. With KES having the luxury of trying out different bowling options, Kingswood eventually limped to 140-9 at 20 overs. Oli Metcalfe (2-25) and Rupert Morgan (2-28) the pick of the figures.

KES now play the winners of the Bristol and Gloucestershire groups in the last 32. Kings Taunton/Millfield will play the winners, and the last 4 will be played at Lords on June 28th in a round robin.

Congratulations to the whole squad and to Mr McComish, Head of Cricket and 1st team Coach.

 




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