King's Chester is the one of the top independent, private day schools for boys and girls. It has Junior (preparatory), Senior and Sixth Form sections and takes pupils from Cheshire, Shropshire, the Wirral and North Wales. It consistently achieves somes of the best academic results in the area; offers academic bursaries; and is well known for its sports, rowing and music.
25 Jan 2012
King’s pupil bats away competitors
Ben Aveyard (ShLP) participated in the Lancashire U16s Pro Cricket Elite Academy coaching course in Wigan for 10 weeks just before Christmas. The Elite coaching is the Academy’s most prestigious and demanding course for players who have reached good club cricket, have played district cricket or are junior county players.
At the end of the course there was an Indoor Tournament held at Yorkshire Cricket Club's Indoor School involving all the UK Elite Academy courses from around the country. Ben played against a number of teams in the U16s category and played three games scoring well in each. After winning all three games in their pool Ben’s side then opened the batting in the final against Lancashire's other side of 15-16 year olds, and won.
Ben was the top scorer in the tournament and was also nominated Player of the Tournament by the Chief Coach Mark Lawson, [and by] an ex-Yorkshire 1st team player [by the] from the forty eight players who attended. Ben has also won a personal coaching session with Mark Lawson.