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Top 100 Schools<br />
WELLINGBOROUGH<br />
SCHOOL<br />
London Road<br />
Wellingborough<br />
Northamptonshire<br />
NN8 2BX<br />
Established 1595<br />
Notable fixtures MCC, XL Club<br />
Cricket professional David Sales<br />
(Northamptonshire & England A)<br />
Teams U14AB, U15AB, 2nd XI,<br />
1st XI with a comprehensive<br />
programme of girls’ cricket<br />
underway at the prep school with<br />
four girls representing the 1st<br />
XI on merit over the past eight<br />
seasons<br />
Facilities Two indoor nets, seven<br />
synthetic outdoor nets, four grass<br />
squares<br />
Club/county affiliation<br />
Northamptonshire<br />
Brief history WG Grace’s doorstep<br />
(from his Bristol home) forms<br />
the bottom element to the main<br />
ground’s thatched pavilion<br />
Cricketers of note Paul Coverdale<br />
(Northamptonshire)<br />
Extras First-class cricket was<br />
played there for many years, with<br />
Ian Botham scoring 175 not out<br />
in a one-day game for Somerset v<br />
Northamptonshire. Sir Len Hutton<br />
struck 269 not out for Yorkshire<br />
against Northants in 1949<br />
WELLINGTON COLLEGE<br />
Duke’s Ride<br />
Crowthorne<br />
West Berkshire<br />
RG45 v7PU<br />
Established 1859<br />
Notable fixtures MCC, Eton, Harrow,<br />
Cowdrey Cup (Tonbridge, Radley<br />
and Charterhouse), plus the BOWS<br />
Festival (Brighton College, Oakham<br />
and Sedbergh), two-day fixture with<br />
Malvern<br />
Master i/c cricket Dan Pratt<br />
Teams Four senior teams, U16ABC,<br />
U15ABCD, U14ABCDE, plus girls<br />
playing their first fixture last June<br />
Facilities Nine grounds, 15 grass nets, 14<br />
synthetic outdoor nets, five indoor nets<br />
Club/county affiliation Surrey, Berkshire<br />
Brief history Wooden pavilion from<br />
1861–1901 before being closed and<br />
demolished due to damage caused<br />
by rats. New lime-green pavilion<br />
opened as replacement, refurbished<br />
and painted pink in 1994. A handful of<br />
Wellingtonians have gone on to play<br />
Test cricket but none since 1930, when<br />
MJC Allom took four wickets in five<br />
balls in the first Test match played by<br />
New Zealand and when FT Badcock,<br />
another Old Wellingtonian, also, rather<br />
uniquely, bagged a king pair on his<br />
debut<br />
Cricketers of note Tom Curran (Surrey),<br />
Sam Curran (Surrey) is still a pupil at<br />
the school<br />
60 / thecricketer.com
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