PLAYING

ST EDWARD’S OXFORD
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 7NN
Established 1863
Notable fixtures Harrow, Winchester,
Radley, Marlborough, Cheltenham,
MCC, Free Foresters
Cricket professional Rex Hooton
(Auckland)
Teams U14ABC, U15ABC, U16AB, 3rd
XI, 2nd XI, 1st XI, Girls’ 1st XI played
inaugural fixture in 2015
Facilities Six grounds, four-lane indoor
nets, 10 outdoor synthetic-grass nets,
eight grass nets
Club/county affiliation Oxfordshire,
Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire
Satellite academy based at
St Edward’s)
Brief history Cricket has always
been played at St Edward’s,
originating in the playground at
New Inn Hall Street with the earliest
records dating from 1873. In 1879 the
1st XI won 15 of 19 matches played,
the feat holding as a school record
until 2012
Cricketers of note Russell Henry
Bencraft (Hampshire), EG Wynyard
(Hampshire & England, also credited
with the ‘invention’ of the sweep
shot), Douglas Bader, Tim Hancock
(Gloucestershire)
Extras St Edward’s school ground
lies one mile from the centre of
Oxford. Famous cricket writer and
journalist John Woodcock, editor of
Wisden 1981–1986, president of the
Cricket Writers’ Club 1986–2004,
is an old boy of ‘St Teddies’ as is
Gloucestershire batsman Tim
Hancock, who scored 8,485 runs
for Gloucestershire in 185 first-class
matches, plus 4,153 runs in 211 List A
matches
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