Our T20 cup run this year…

We are very proud of our group this year in terms of the cricket they have played. We have enjoyed a great cup run in both competitions that we enter.

Firstly we Enter the National Schools T20, where we initially play in the North west Group.

The first phases of the T20 cup are played at a single venue with two games on the same day. Our opening day this year was at Cheadle Hulme School where we played the hosts in the first game - Max Fisher top scoring with 121* from 60 balls as we set an imposing 226-2 from our 20 overs.

Bowling well, we restricted the hosts winning by 92 runs.

The second game of that day was against Myerscough (Preston) - in fine form again with the bat, led by Dan stock who finished 93* from 66 balls, we posted 190-6 which proved too many for the Preston side, who finished 70 short.

We moved onto Round 2 to be hosted by Manchester Grammar School, where we were drawn in the first round against Merchant taylor’s, Crosby.

Picking up where we left off in the previous round - and with two new openers available in walkden and Young, we batted first and set what was, at the time a record partnership of 194 in their opening stand. This proved too much for Merchants and we progressed to the final game of the day to play Manchester grammar School.

Batting first, we found runs harder to come by, finishing with a total of 134 from our allocated overs. We bowled particularly well and restricted MGS to 123 meaning that we won by 11 runs.

That meant that we had progressed to the North west Final for the first time in our history. Drawn at home against Sedbergh School - we were also drawn to host.

What followed was one of the best games of T20 cricket that you are ever likely to see!

We won the toss and elected to field first - after some big hitting, good running and some errors in the field, we we left to chase 207 from our 20 overs in order to progress to the North final against Worksop College to be played later that afternoon.

Unbelievably, and thanks to a fine display of hitting from Dan Newton, brilliantly set up by an outstanding innings from Josh Little and Supported by Max Fisher, we found ourselves with a tied game, also reaching 207 from our allotted overs.

A super over followed - we batted first and scored 11, which was probably a boundary short in the end as Sedbergh took 5 balls to pass our target.

An outstanding T20 campaign from our group, with plenty of brilliant individual performances and a great platform to build on for next year.

This is the First time we can say that we are North West Finalists!