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EASTBOURNE COLLEGE Old Wish Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 4JY Established 1867 Notable fixtures MCC, Tonbridge, Sussex Martlets Cricket professionals Andy Waller (Zimbabwe) and Rob Ferley (Kent & Nottinghamshire) Teams 1st XI, 2nd XI, 3rd XI, 4th XI, U15ABC, U14ABC Girls’ cricket Girls can play in boys team with a girls’ cricket activity running in the summer months Facilities Project 150, marking the school’s sesquicentenary, to deliver as part of the £32m investment a world-class indoor five-lane facility completed in 2017. Eight-lane state-of-the-art all-weather practice facility. Five cricket squares Club/county affiliation Sussex Cricketers of note Ed Giddins 20 | thecricketer.com
(Sussex, Warwickshire, Hampshire & England), Matt Hobden and Harry Finch (both Sussex) Finest moment on the field Winning the inaugural Arch Trophy in Dubai in 2008, beating Wellington in the final. Openers Henry Braybrooke and John Kelsey put on an unbroken 403 at the College in 1899 Extras The Memorial Ground has hosted county fixtures and College Field is regarded as an iconic venue, situated right on the south coast. Eastbourne became the first English school to go on a tour to Nepal. There the boys coached cricket in a school in the Himalayan foothills near Kathmandu, helping to paint run-down areas of the school
Established 1594 Notable fixtures MCC, Tiffin School Director of cricket Mark Stear (Berkshire) Teams 1st XI, 2nd XI, U15AB, U14AB, U13AB, U12AB Girls’ cricket Completed two seasons of U13 and U15 girls’ cricket as an extracurricular option in the summer term Facilities Two sites: the main school houses the main square – minutes away from Clapham Junction – and a junior square. The school also has access to the Old Boys’ ground, Blagdon’s. Sports hall includes four indoor nets, three outdoor nets, an artificial surface and one cage Club/county affiliation Spencer CC, Bank of England CC, Barmy Army Colts Cricketers of note Stuart Surridge (Surrey), Ian Payne (Surrey & Gloucestershire) Finest moment on the field U14s won the London Cup and U15s were semi-finalists in the Ingham London Cup Extras Emanuel has hosted a number of high-level games, most recently Sri Lankan Unity U19 XI v Trinity Schools’ Select XI, organised by the Foundation of Goodness, patronised by Sarah Botham Cultural cricketers Four Surrey CCC presidents (including Surridge) went to Emanuel. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the world wide web, played cricket for the school. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin played 11-year-old Tom Riddle, the young version of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but more notably represented Emanuel U13As in 2009