TOM BURTON JOINS THE ACADEMY
5th February 2010

Tom Burton

Congratulations to Tom Burton who has been promoted from the WCB Emerging Players Programme (EPP) into the WCCC Academy. Tom (u17) represented the Warwickshire at under 16, 17 and 19 during the 2009 season as a top order batsman, medium pace bowler and excellent fielder. EPP Head Coach Gary Steer said that “Tom has demonstrated over the winter the attitude, skill and desire required to make the step into the academy. He has done very well to make the step up so quickly as he has been in the EPP squad for less than 12 months.”

WARWICKSHIRE ACADEMY BOYS PASS NVQ AWARD
19th January 2010

Tim Gruijters	Tom Milnes	Shozair Ali

Congratulations to Academy Players Tim Gruijters, Tom Milnes and Shozair Ali who have all passed their Level 3 NVQ in Achieving Excellence in Sports Performance (Cricket). Over the last 12 months, all three worked very closely with NVQ Tutor Roy Wills and academy coaches Dougie Brown (presenting the certificates) and Gary Steer. To pass the award, each player had to supply evidence that they understand and are trying to improve the technical, tactical, mental and physical aspects of their game.

WARWICKSHIRE GIRLS SELECTED FOR ECB
14th January 2010

Lizzie Russell and Lucy Maxwell (both under 16) have been selected for England Women’s U17 Development Squad for a tour in March to South Africa. Lizzie is an opening bowler, whilst Lucy is an off spinner and both are middle order batsman. Both will be attending ECB training sessions in preparation for the tour which will be for around 10 days and they will play against South African provincial sides.

There was also for further good news for Amy Jones (U17) and Helen Shipman (u19) who have both been selected to attend this year's Junior Super 4s Winter Training Camp on 11th-14th February at the National Cricket Performance Centre, Loughborough. Amy is a right handed opening batsman and wicket keeper, whilst Helen also opens the innings and is an occasional leg spin bowler.

Both players are currently part of the new WCB Women’s Academy, which is a programme that runs alongside the Emerging Players Programme under the guidance of Kelly Evenson, Steve Perryman, Mark Evenson and recently retired Warwickshire player, Tony Frost. Both players are also part of the senior ladies county team, Errol Simms (team coach) endorsed the selections by saying “all players continue to work very hard on all areas of their game and their selection for the ECB Super 4’s and training camp is thoroughly deserved.”

WINTER 2009 DEVELOPMENT OF EXCELLENCE SQUADS ANNOUNCED

TRIALS WINTER 2009

It’s trials season at Warwickshire!

Up to 1,000 Budding Bears have been doing their best to impress Warwickshire Cricket Board’s coaches over the last few weeks at Edgbaston and in the districts of South/Central, North & East, Solihull and Coventry.

Further trials will be taking place mostly at Edgbaston Cricket Centre throughout November to decide Warwickshire’s winter development of excellence squads for boys Under 10s,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 &19s and girls U11s,13s, 15s & 17s. Furthermore there are district squads at Under 11,13 &15s. It’s still a highly competitive process and most youngsters are not selected.

However, as ever the trials have unearthed new talented players validating what is quite a big administrative effort by the WCB. Youngsters can take local inspiration from the likes of Ateeq Javed, Richard Johnson, Chris Woakes and Paul Best who have all gone through this process in the last few years and thrived on it.

Many thanks to the clubs and schools for their time spent on sending the nominations

DOE AWARDS DINNER 2009

Congratulation to all the winners below!

Tom Banton and Ian Westwood	Matthew Naylor and Ian Westwood
Brinder Phagura and Ian Westwood	James Fry and Naqaash Tahir
Naqaash Tahir and Jamie Klapper	Naqaash Tahir and Asim Shoaib
Ian Bell and Shoazir Ali	Ian Bell and Amy Wier
Ian Bell and Nathalie James	Tom Banton and Jonathan Trott
Jonathan Trott and Jack Butts	Jonathan Trott and James Clifford
Jonathan Trott and Matt Clements	Tom Banton and Neal Abberley

BANTON BREAKS 200!
14th August 2009

RECORD PARTNERSHIP
19th June 2009

JIM CLIFFORD AND MATTHEW NAYLOR LUKE JONES Congratulations to Jim Clifford and Matthew Naylor of the Bears Under 12 squad who achieved a record partnership of 228. Luke Jones also took 4 wickets in only 2.4 overs! Warwickshire beat Shropshire at Bishop Vesey School by 244 runs.

CENTURY TO FRY FOR
15th June 2009

Bears Under 14 batsman James Fry reached a fantastic total of 118 this weekend against local rivals Worcestershire which helped secure a Bears win by 40 runs.

Mark Best kick started his season for the county under 14’s with a magnificent innings of 169 against Buckinghamshire at Aston Unity cricket club. Mark, who is currently on the WCB Emerging Players Programme hit 19 fours and six sixes which saw the team end up with a total of 316-4 off just 45 overs. Despite the poor weather, the players and officials battled through the rain to complete the match which saw the bears end up victorious by 205 runs.

UNDER 10
Tom Banton
Henry Brookes
Ben Clark
Matthew Davison
Hussain Khalil
Aksa-Zaman Khan
Suraj Kumar
James Lunn
Lewis Noon
Alex Prosser
Tom Pyke
Masharraf Shazad

UNDER 11
Tom Banton
Arjun Bath
Sunni-Ryder Berridge
Matthew Blaylock
Jack Butts
Will Davies
Luke James
Hussain Khalil
Ross Parnell
Raul Ram
Adil Saeed
Edward Smith
Rahul Trivedi

UNDER 11 ‘B’
Charlie Adams
Jack Bewick
Laurie Harries
Sam Heritage
Niall Keating
Callum Kenny
Tom Lay
Ghulam Mohyuddin
Andrew Murphy
Cheiff Narotra
Jamie O'Hara
James Tomnie
Craig Turner
Kieran Wordsworth
Adam Bristow
Rory Kenney-Herbert
Daniel Whitehurst

UNDER 12
Harry Adams
Akbar Ahmed
Joel Allen
Jake Brazier
James Clifford
Todd Freeman
Luke Jones
Saahir Mubarik
Matthew Naylor
Robbie Povey
Jay Reddy
Oliver Tarr
Aaron Thomason
Adam Williams

UNDER 13
Christopher Beaumont-Dark
Daniel Brosnan
Matthew Clements
Nathan Edgar
William Field
Monty Foley-Williamson
Oliver Haley
Nick Hooper
Matthew Lamb
Brinder Phagura
James Ray
Haseeb Rehman
Jake Salmon

UNDER 13 ‘B’
Jonathan Allen
Oliver Bacon
Josh Broadhurst
Mustafa Chaudhry
Tom Claughton
Adam Clayton
Simeon Goode
Alex Gott
Jamie Hughes
Paul Lawrence
Bobby Moseley
Nick Starkey
Louie Turpie
Michael Waugh
George Webb
Waqas Younis

UNDER 14
Mark Best
Darryl Brotherhood
James Fry
Lewis Harrison
Joshua Hickman
Alex Kirkpatrick
Angus Mathieson
Peter McKay
Mohammad Adeel Sajid
Reece Saunders
Sam Smart
Jonathan Spelman
Basit Zaman

UNDER 15
Steve Abbey
Matthew Briggs
George Findlay
Jack Grundy
Jamie Klapper
Sam Lucas
Girish Murali
Callum Reilly
Nathan Roberts
Nicholas Sale
Asim Shoaib
Matthew Smith
Sam White

UNDER 15 ‘B’
Karandeep Bharj
Aadil Bhayat
Dominic Burnett
Daniel Ceillam
Joshua De Souza
Jagtar Singh Dulai
Sam Elgar
James Formstone
Anton Johnson
Danial Khan
Harman Khangure
Clark McCallum
Richard Miles
Jonathan Newis
Lee Thomason

UNDER 16
Shozair Ali
Thomas Brown
Tom Burton
Adam Clegg
Jack Cornick
Liam Gately
Jack Grundy
Dominic Harding
Haris Ismail
Jamie Klapper
Thomas Milnes
Thomas Payne
Asim Shoaib
Arun Toora
Chris Whittock

UNDER 17
Johar Ahmed
Shozair Ali
Freddie Coleman
Carl Copson
Shane Getkate
Recardo Gordon
Gary Hawkins
Sam Hobbs
Daniel Jones
Paul Malkin
Thomas Milnes
Mannan Nawaz
Matthew Parker
Usman Shabir
James Walker
Jonathon Webb
Ben Williams

UNDER 19
Ali Awan
Paul Best
Freddie Coleman
Robert Edmond
Shane Getkate
Tim Gruijters
Lee Hopkins
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Milnes
Phillip Neale
Alex Phillips
Marc Russell
Usman Shabir
Tom Warner
Jonathon Webb
Ben Williams
Junead Zaman