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BYHERNEMAN
THE GAME
CLUB
CapeTownbound
Socialclubopeningthe2015
campaignwith10-dayjaunt
the hawks Cricket Club, a nomadic
social cricket club based in the
Wharfedale Valley, Yorkshire, are
undertaking the most ambitious
tour in the club’s history at the start
of their 77th year.
Aplayingpartyof17areofftoSouth
Africafor10nightsfromFebruary19
throughtoMarch2.Threefixtures
havebeenconfirmedagainstGroot
DrakensteinCC,GreenPointCC
andTheSpinDoctorsCC.
Thetourpartyincludesmany
experiencedHawkscricketers
includingsevenwhohaveleague
cricketbackgroundsandtheywill
beupagainstoppositionofsimilar
standard.
OffthepitchtheHawksintend
toenjoythesurroundingareas,
includingTableMountain,
RobbenIsland,theWinelandsand
MetropolitanGolfClub,aswellas
makinguseofthelocalhostelries.
TheHawks,formedin1938,can
currentlyboastamembershipof
198,andhavetouredmanytimes
beforetovenuesasdiverseas
Estonia,London,Dublin,North
Wales,Torquay,Oakham,Wilmslow
andChichestertonamebutafew.
PassagetoIndiaMILLFIELD
Millfield School have just come back
from their first ever trip to India which
saw both cricket and hockey 1st XIs
and their under-15 cricket team enjoy
a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Forty-four students, along with
parents and coaches including
director of sport David Faulkner
and master in charge of cricket
Richard Ellison, embarked on the
12-day tour which was based in the
northern city of Delhi.
All three sides pitted their wits
against Delhi and Punjab’s finest
young district and academy players
before taking in some of India’s most
beautiful landmarks.
The number of wickets taken by Adam
Shantry – for Northamptonshire,
Warwickshire and Glamorgan – in first-class
cricket. Shantry, who retired in 2011, has been
appointed as head coach at Birmingham
League club Shrewsbury.
Both cricket teams did extremely
well in the dusty,humid conditions
with the 1st XI excelling,winning four
of their six matches including a victory
over Khalsa College at the Gandhi
International stadium inAmritsar.
Their other two games were nerve-
jangling affairs with one being a
tie and the other a last-ball defeat
to a team full of the region’s most
promising academy players.
The under-15s could also be proud
of their efforts,winning their opening
two games comfortably before a step
up in class saw them suffer defeats in
their final four games.
Charlie Hannan, a pupil in year 10,
said:“The people we played were so
interesting and we learnt how to play
and adapt to different situations.
The team learnt how to support each
other playing in the heat, and look
after each other as a team.”
They also ventured to many of India’s
biggest tourist attractions such as
theTaj Mahal,India Gate in Delhi,the
GoldenTemple atAmritsar and the
India/Pakistan border before a trip to
a bat-making factory in Jalandhar.
The school is keen to maintain
its connections with India having
taught Indian boys ever since the
school’s inception in 1935 when the
founder, Jack Meyer, brought seven
boys back with him from his teaching
spell in the country.
David Sillifant
Newfriends:The
cricketersfrom
MillfieldSchool
posewithsome
oftheirIndian
opposition
The number of wickets taken by Adam
Shantry – for Northamptonshire,
Warwickshire and Glamorgan – in first-class
cricket. Shantry, who retired in 2011, has been
appointed as head coach at Birmingham
League club Shrewsbury.