Head's Newsletter 8 July 2016

Challenge Cup (the top event). They lost narrowly to the Dutch national squad in the final, having beaten both the Italian and Spanish national squads in their previous two rounds! TSBC salutes them! School Cricket 2016 First mention must be made of the outstanding U15 XI who polished off an outstanding season by winning The Surrey County Cup. Not only this, but 5 of the side supplemented the depleted 1st XI over the last two weeks of the season and played an immense part in winning both the Kingston Festival 20-20 1st XI Tournament and the Cheam Cricket Club 1st XI Tournament. All players contributed hugely with bat, ball or both and the fielding was quite exceptional. Outstanding among these was the U15 Captain Aum Joshi for his all-round skills, Huw Morris behind the stumps, Keerat Khaira for his batting and fielding contributions and Jivan Singh for his astonishing talent with both bat and ball. The tournament sides featured no fewer than 4 wicket keepers and 5 spinners, the latter playing a critical part in every game with Yusuf Jackson’s leg-spin proving almost unplayable at times. Add to these names the brilliant captaincy, batting and bowling of both Conor Fulton and Krishan Sachdeva and you have an immensely powerful outfit. For the U12 XIs it was a season of rapid learning on the job. They turned out in huge, enthusiastic numbers and at times played attractively but there are many holes in technique and match awareness that they will no doubt put right in future years. The U13 XIs had very good results throughout the season and the A team saved some of their best cricket for the Rokeby tournament. The U14 XIs fared better at B team level than at A team level but kept the best for last with an emphatic win over Rutlish in their last match of the season.

The cross country team at the end of year relays gained two sets of medals against the rest of the county . Very well done. ROWING The top quad competed in the Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney, narrowly failing to qualify for the final. Then on to Henley Royal Regatta!

The event (Fawley Challenge) was heavily oversubscribed and they failed to make the regatta proper. Tiffin was however represented at the regatta by ex-Tiffinians, Richard Clarke and Tim Livingstone, who were in a Nautilus crew in the Grand