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REPTON
SCHOOL
The Lodge
Repton
Derby
DE65 6FH
Established 1557
Notable fixtures MCC, Free Foresters,
Uppingham (150 years), Malvern (130
years)
Cricket professionals Howard Dytham,
Andy Afford (Nottinghamshire &
England A)
Teams U14 to 1st XI, 10 sides in
total. Some girls played for the first
time in boys’ teams in 2015. Further
expansion planned
Facilities Four grounds developing to
five grounds from 2016. Ten artificial
nets, five indoor lanes
Club/county affiliation Derbyshire
Brief history An illustrious line of
cricketers from CB Fry in the 1880s
through to the most recent addition
of Nitish Kumar, youngest player to
play in an ICC World Cup in 2011.
Repton boasts one of the highest
(second to Eton) numbers of firstclass
players among their old boys.
In 2008 Repton won the National
Schools T20 competition, defeating
Dulwich College in the final. Captain
of Repton that year was Derbyshire
wicketkeeper Tom Poynton
Cricketers of note 132 first-class
players, 11 England players and three
Test captains, including Donald Carr
(Derbyshire & England),
Jack Crawford (Surrey, South
Australia & England), CB Fry
(Surrey, Hampshire & England),
Chris Adams (Derbyshire, Sussex &
England) Richard Hutton (Yorkshire
& England)
Extras Hosts Derbyshire age-group
games and academy games, having
previously hosted 2nd XI fixtures.
Five current Old Reptonians
are playing or coaching cricket
professionally. Old boys include
cricket writer Michael Henderson,
Harold Abrahams, Roald Dahl and
Jeremy Clarkson. The school hosted
Derbyshire’s Sunday League game
against Middlesex in 1988, with
Angus Fraser recording figures of
8-2-8-3. According to Tatler, CB
Fry (captain of England in 1912)
persuaded the headmaster to allow
him to give up mathematics
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