England: Youngsters' Lord's treat (17 October 1998)
THE idea of cricket as a seamless journey from school playground to Test arena was given some coherence at Lord's yesterday when Angus Fraser and Nasser Hussain were in the nets at the MCC indoor school coaching 17 schoolboys from Wales
17-Oct-1998
17 October 1998
England: Youngsters' Lord's treat
By Christopher Martin-Jenkins
THE idea of cricket as a seamless journey from school playground
to Test arena was given some coherence at Lord's yesterday when
Angus Fraser and Nasser Hussain were in the nets at the MCC
indoor school coaching 17 schoolboys from Wales.
The youngsters had helped St Fagans CC win 11 games to take this
year's Sun Life of Canada under-15 club championship. The prize
of a day at Lord's with two England players was an added reward.
St Fagans have given their Lord's Taverners cheque for £500 to
Cantonian Comprehensive School in Cardiff, who supplied two of
the winning team.
Their coach, Phil Makinson, who played at Lord's when the club
won the National Village Championship for the third time, picked
out 13-year-old Nick Swetman, a seam bowling all-rounder, as a
possible future Glamorgan player and is looking forward to the
day that Tom Maynard, son of the county captain Matthew, is ready
to play for his under-15s. "He's only nine," said Makinson, "but
he's already a very promising cricketer."
Nearly 1,500 schools competed this year and St Fagans beat Crewe
Rolls-Royce in the final at Basingstoke in July.
Source :: Electronic Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk)