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CRANLEIGH SCHOOL

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Horseshoe Lane Cranleigh Surrey GU6 8QQ

Established 1865 Notable fixtures MCC, Wellington College, Tonbridge, Harrow, Charterhouse Director of cricket Stuart Welch Teams Five senior sides, three U15, three U14 Girls’ cricket U18, U15, U14 Facilities Dedicated two-lane indoor school, 20 outdoor nets, five squares including a six-bay net area with fully synthetic run-ups Club/county affiliation Surrey Brief history 2016 represented the 150th anniversary of Cranleigh’s first fixture, against Hurstpierpoint in June 1866. Cricketers of note Seren Waters (Kenya), Stuart Meaker (Surrey) Extras Harry Calder was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1916 – when county cricket was in abeyance due to the First World War – and remains the only person to be given the award and not play first-class cricket. He was a spin bowler for Cranleigh 1st XI for five years, captaining them for three Finest moment on the field In 2014 Cranleigh won both The Cricketer Cup (first in Old Cranleighan history) and the school won the National Under-15 Cup, the first school in Surrey to do so

DAUNTSEY’S SCHOOL High Street West Lavington Devizes Wiltshire SN10 4HE

Established 1542 Notable fixtures MCC, Winchester, Clifton, Sherborne, Canford, XL Club, Wiltshire Queries Cricket professional Jon Ayling (Hampshire) Teams 12 teams from U12 to senior Girls’ cricket An after-school club, with junior fixtures Facilities Four indoor nets, four grass nets, five caged astro nets, four grass squares, one artificial pitch, electronic scoreboard recently installed Club/county affiliation Wiltshire Brief history Dauntsey’s is a leading co-educational independent boarding and day school for 11 to 18-year-olds, located on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain set in an estate of over 100 acres of idyllic countryside. In 1930 it was made a public school and the name officially changed to Dauntsey’s School. Girls were admitted in 1971. It is now a school of over 800 pupils, and is supported by the Worshipful Company of Mercers Extras Dauntsey’s are host to the MCC Foundation mid-Wiltshire hub, regularly host county age-group matches and training sessions and recently hosted a regional women’s T20 competition for the ECB. The 1st XI ground is frequently described by visitors as one of the best school grounds in the country thecricketer.com | 17

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The Cricketer - Playing fields of England

Published on Dec 2, 2016

The Cricketer

The Cricketer is delighted to announce its ‘best of’ list for secondary education, entitled The Playing Fields of England: An A-Z Guide To The Summer Game’s Top 100 Schools 2017. This is the second year we have published this supplement, enclosed with The Cricketer, after a successful inaugural year in 2016. The publication of this top 100 follows an exhaustive process that saw more than 250 schools enter submissions for inclusion. All were matched against an exhaustive set of coordinates, with the schools chosen having outstanding cricket programmes. The definitive list can be seen in the notes to editors below. “This is a celebration of the best of school sport, the grounds, the facilities, the coaching, the fixture lists and the general commitment to getting those blighters on the field to play a semblance of the game that has characterised England and Englishness for more than three centuries,” says The Cricketer editor Simon Hughes.