St Edward's Rhubarb - 2018

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Cricket After some delays from weather, the Martyrs hosted Old Cliftonians on Upper One in the 1st Round of the Cricketer Cup, winning the toss and electing to bat. After an explosive start from Miles Hammond (H, 2009-2014) (41) the first wicket of Joe Barrett (B, 2010- 2014) (4) fell. This failed to slow down the scoring rate as 2015 1st XI captain Calvin Dickinson (C, 2010-2015) (27) continued in the same vein as Hammond. After just nine overs the Martyrs were 70-1 and looked set for a formidable score, but the loss of two quick wickets checked our progress, falling to 84-3, and bringing stand-in-captain John Barrett (E, 2000-2005) (46) to join Feroz Baig (H, 2009-2014) (48) at the crease. The two re-built the innings at a very reasonable rate and at 177-3 off 30 overs it looked like a huge score was back on the cards. Unfortunately, in true Martyrs fashion, five

quick wickets fell and we were reduced to 185-8. Unable to recover from this, we were eventually all out for a disappointing 204 in just the 45th over. In the field, we started well with an early wicket for Harry Sutton (C, 2000-2005) (1-28) and, although we managed to take regular wickets through Freddie Simon (F, 2008-2013) (2-27) and Ruairi Willis (F, 2008-2013) (2-11), the total was always never quite enough. Old Cliftonians reached the target in the 36th over with 3 wickets in hand to rather prematurely end another Cricketer Cup campaign. In the traditional fixture against the School at Gaudy, the Martyrs took regular wickets to restrict the 1st XI to 192-8 off 40 overs, with 1995 1st XI captain Nick Prior (C, 1990-1995) rolling back the years to take 3-50, including the key wicket of

the 1st XI’s School batting record breaking captain, AJ Woodland , and Gus Knott (H, 2010-2015) taking 3-27. In reply, the Martyrs started reasonably with Freddie Kerr-Dineen (C, 2007-2012) and George Chaffer (F, 2007-2012) putting on an opening stand of 34, but we began to lose wickets at all to regular intervals to be left wobbling at 57-5. Peter Swainson (F, 1995-2000) joined 1994 1st XI captain Oliver Slipper (C, 1989-1994) at the crease to re-build the innings, but just as we were looking to accelerate the scoring Swainson edged to the ‘keeper to leave the score at 111-6. The Martyrs eventually fell 30 runs short, reaching 160-8 with Slipper top scoring with 38. Another competitive and very enjoyable fixture against a strong School XI. Peter Swainson (F, 1995-2000)

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Getting in touch

OSE Representatives: Cornwall John Crosse jpcrosse108@gmail.com Midlands Chris Northcote-Green northcotegreens@aol.com Wales Graeme Morgan graememorgan@btinternet.com Australia Ian Stuart ikstuart@bigpond.net.au New Zealand David Brooke anda.brooke@xtra.co.nz North West Michael Cox hethatcoxylot33@btinternet.com Singapore Tim Hartnoll tim@x-pressfeeders.com East Africa Hugo Johnstone hugo@reavipingo.co.ke USA Michael St John Rowbotham and Nigel Chaumeton mrowbotham@hotmail.com nigelc@ori.org Hong Kong Piers Brunner piers.brunner@gmail.com

Rifle Shooting Henry Thomson henry.catesby@googlemail.com Rugby Matt Holyland mattholyland@hotmail.co.uk Sailing Charlie Preston charpres@gmail.com Squash James Dubois james@BDA-Associates.co.uk St Vincent Society Phillip Blanchard p.blanchard2@btinternet.com Tennis Dominic Evan-Hart dominic@jmg-associates.com

Canada Charlie Malone and Roger Leach cmalone@wildlaw.ca roger.leach@shaw.ca UAE Richard Morris richard.morris528@gmail.com Martyrs Representatives: President Simon Talbot-Williams simon@talbotscott.co.uk Vice-President Peter Swainson peterswainson@hotmail.com Honorary Secretary Hugo McNeile hmcn@btopenworld.com Athletics & Harriers Freddie Slemeck and Fin Kettlewell fslemeck@caci.co.uk finkettlewell@hotmail.com Boat Club Alex Cavill alexcavill@hotmail.com Clay Pigeon Shooting Ben Stillwell ben.stillwell@martyrs-sports.org Cricket Simon Talbot-Williams simon@talbotscott.co.uk and Peter Swainson peterswainson@hotmail.com

Football Henry Maas hdmaas1@gmail.com Golf Peter Neal martyrsgolf@gmail.com Hockey Jasper Joyce jasperjoyce@hotmail.co.uk and George Creed georgecreed3@hotmail.co.uk Ladies' Sport Grace Robinson gracerobinson@live.co.uk Real Tennis Simon Talbot-Williams and Charlie Harris charlie_harris123@hotmail.co.uk

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