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TOP 100 SCHOOLS<br />
SOUTH DARTMOOR<br />
COMMUNITY COLLEGE<br />
Balland Lane<br />
Ashburton<br />
Devon<br />
TQ13 7EW<br />
Established 1964<br />
Cricket professional Talented<br />
performers receive weekly paired<br />
coaching sessions with ECB Level 4<br />
coach Peter Sanderson<br />
Teams Boys U12 to 17, girls U13AB,<br />
U15AB with girls’ cricket running<br />
throughout the year<br />
Facilities Sports hall with four indoor<br />
nets, gym, four-lane outdoor nets, plus<br />
a school field and synthetic-turf<br />
pitch. ‘Grass’ fixtures played at<br />
Ashburton CC and Bovey Tracey CC<br />
Club/county affiliation Devon,<br />
Somerset, Bovey Tracey CC,<br />
Ashburton CC, Ipplepen CC<br />
Brief history Good local community<br />
clubs has meant cricket has thrived.<br />
Girls’ cricket was introduced 10<br />
years ago and in the last few years<br />
the focus, staffing structure and<br />
vision has sharpened further offering<br />
opportunities, training and coaching at<br />
the highest level a state school can offer<br />
Extras A whole community approach<br />
to cricket sees South Dartmoor<br />
Community College blazing a trail. This<br />
summer the under-15 girls became<br />
Chance To Shine national champions.<br />
They won through area, district and<br />
regional rounds to reach the national<br />
finals, at the Edgbaston Sports<br />
Foundation Ground in Birmingham,<br />
in front of Charlotte Edwards. South<br />
Dartmoor beat South Hensley<br />
Secondary School from Yorkshire in the<br />
final, Libby McNally, Jas Dawe,<br />
Ellie Ingham-Hill and Jess Cooper<br />
all shining with the bat. The girls also<br />
finished third in the School Sport<br />
Magazine T20 hardball national<br />
finals. Ingham-Hill was selected to be<br />
part of the England squad in a<br />
tournament in Shrewsbury and the<br />
England Women’s Development<br />
Programme<br />
ST BENEDICT’S SCHOOL<br />
54 Eaton Rise<br />
Ealing<br />
London<br />
W5 2ES<br />
Established 1902<br />
Notable fixtures MCC, Emeriti,<br />
Hampton, Whitgift<br />
Director of Cricket (from Sept 2015)<br />
Keith Newell (Sussex)<br />
Teams 37 sides with girls playing in<br />
boys’ teams on merit<br />
Facilities Two indoor nets, three<br />
ovals, two outdoor synthetic-grass<br />
nets with eight more to be built,<br />
plus use of Ealing CC adding two<br />
ovals and five artificial nets<br />
Club/county affiliation<br />
Ealing CC, Middlesex,<br />
Middlesex Schools<br />
Cricketers of note Ned Eckersley<br />
(Leicestershire)<br />
Extras With a junior and senior<br />
school, St Benedict’s start what<br />
they consider to be a conveyor belt<br />
of players from as early as six, with<br />
every boy in the school playing<br />
cricket throughout the summer<br />
term. Cricket has been played at<br />
St Benedict’s for a century now.<br />
The 1st XI was ranked No.1 in the<br />
country during 2012. Younger years<br />
have enjoyed success too, with<br />
different age groups reaching the<br />
county cup final on eight occasions.<br />
As well as playing in national and<br />
regional tournaments, one of their<br />
aims is to extend cricket to all<br />
ages and genders. They do this by<br />
hosting co-educational inter-school<br />
and intra-school tournaments.<br />
The T20 tournament sees the 1st<br />
XI, Old Priorian CC, Headmaster’s<br />
XI and Old<br />
Priorian RFC<br />
battling each<br />
other. The<br />
Ravens Cricket<br />
Academy<br />
offers high-<br />
quality coaching<br />
to both boys and<br />
girls at all ages and<br />
levels. Old boy Ned<br />
Eckersley has hit 10<br />
first-class hundreds<br />
and fielded as 12th<br />
man for England<br />
at Lord’s<br />
Fox hunter: Ned Eckersley<br />
of Leicestershire<br />
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