Sir Robert Hitcham's cricket team did the school proud yesterday. There were 12 district winners from around Suffolk divided into 4 groups. We won our 2 group games convincingly against Middle Schools. You can see the scorecard below from the match v Beyton Middle (largest school in the County). We also beat Castle Hill Middle.We then played a quarter final v Hardwick Middle - another good win for SRH.
Next was a tense semi final v Wilby Primary. They had some very good bowlers. This was quite a low scoring match but we bowled and fielded extremely well to win by 15 runs.
In the Final SRH played against Hadleigh. This was a very tight and nervous match. SRH bowled first and kept Hadleigh down to a low score. Everybody bowled really well in this game and some great catches were taken. Hadleigh had some very good bowlers and SRH lost several wickets (and therefore, runs off our score) in the first half of our innings. Captain Josh Cantrell and Adam Blades went in as our 3rd pair of batters and completely changed the match in our favour. One over saw 2 sixes and 2 fours to put us in a commanding position. The last 2 overs were batted by Ryan Seaber and Gus Whitely without any hicups to leave SRH with a win by 15 runs. Other mewmbers of the team were vice captain Harry Dyer, Billy Evans, George Johnson, Charlie Smith, Edward Goddard and Callum Palmer- Robertson. All of them were outstanding - several spectators mentioned the incredible team spirit our our boys.
Everybody was naturally over the moon! County Champions for the first time. Last year we were runners up. Nick Knight (former England player and now Radio commentator) was there to watch our semi final and final. He was very complimentary about our team. He presented the boys with their medals, signed their shirts (free from event sponsors ASDA) and posed for photos with the team.
SRH now goes forward to represent Suffolk in the Regional Finals (6 Eastern Counties) next Thursday in Mildenhall. There is a huge incentive to do well in this as the winners and runners up will play in the National Finals at the Headingley Ground (in Leeds) during the last week of term.
