Oundle School
Cricket
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Oundle School Cricket Club (OSCC) celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2005. The first inter-school game was against Uppingham in 1855, but archive records suggest that cricket was played in the School as early as the 1830's.
Teams: The Club fields sixteen teams from U12 to 1st XI during the Trinity Quarter. At Senior level there are four teams: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th XI. At Junior level there are twelve teams: U16A,B; U15A, B and C; U14A, B,C and D: U13A, B and C.
Fixtures: Block fixtures against all the major cricket schools in our region include fixtures against: Uppingham, Oakham, Shrewsbury, Rugby, Stowe, Bedford, Felsted, Haileybury, St Edward’s, Gresham’s, Worksop, Kimbolton, Wellingborough and Stamford, as well as 1st XI matches against MCC, Eton, and Northants Amateurs.
Tours: Recent tours at various age groups have visited:
- West Indies 1993, 1994, 1998 and 2003.
- South Africa 1995, 1997 and 2004.
- Sri Lanka 2003.
- Australia 2006.
Achievements: Amongs recent successes the 1st XI in 2004 achieved fifteen wins and no defeats, a 75% win ratio a School which is new School record that stood since 1877. Over the past ten years Oundle School has won 120 matches with only forty defeats. This represents three times as many wins as losses. We have it on the authority of Wisden, that Oundle is one of only a handful of English schools that have posted over one hundred victories in the last decade.
Individual Achievements: The School has produced 43 First Class Cricketers to date and one player has been selected for England A. The most recent being:
William Jefferson (S 98): Essex CCC and Nottinghamshire CCC / England
A
Stephen Lowe (G 99): Oxford UCCE
Mark Phythian (L 04) Durham UCCE
Cameron Wake (L 04): Captain England Schools' XI / Durham UCCE
Patrick Foster (St.A 05) Durham UCCE
Coaches 1st XI: Mr John Wake (ECB Staff Coach), played
minor county cricket for Bedfordshire and was Captain for four years, Chairman
of ESCA 2004 & current Manager of England U15's.
Professional: Mr Merwe Genis (UCBSA Level III)
Cricket Professional
Mr. v.d.Merwe Genis
Fixtures and Results
Home matches are shown in normal text. Away matches are shown in italics. Won matches are shown in with a green background. Lost matches are shown with a red background. Draws are shown with a grey background.
Oundle's scores come before opponents' scores