cricket Archives - Perrott Hill

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Cricket Matches

The cricket season is well underway and on Saturday Years 5-8 enjoyed some fantastic matches with Sandroyd – it was the perfect afternoon! (Pictured are the 2nd XI.) This afternoon, our U8 and U9 teams face Leweston at home and we’re looking forward to some great competition.

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23rd May 2023

The Perrott Hill Plodders

Some exciting news to share on behalf of our ‘parents and friends’ cricket team, The Perrott Hill Plodders… At their recent match against Hardington and West Coker at North Perrott Cricket Club, the Headmaster presented John Grundy with his cap as newly appointed President of The Plodders. John is the son of Perrott Hill’s founder, […]

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28th June 2022

T20 Cricket Trip

Mr Silk, Mr Edgar and Mr McCullough took a group of 16 boarders to the County Ground in Taunton recently to watch Somerset play Kent Spitfires in the Vitality Blast T20 competition. It wasn’t the result they were hoping for as Somerset lost by 32 runs but nonetheless a great time was had by all. […]

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20th June 2022

Prep School Sport

Many thanks to our friends at Sherborne Prep and Millfield Prep for a cracking afternoon of cricket in the sunshine on Wednesday! Our 1st team enjoyed a brilliant afternoon at Sherborne – well done to player of the match, Tommy, for his superb batting. We’re looking forward to seeing Queen’s College Taunton this weekend.

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21st May 2021

Virtual Prep School Fixture

Monday saw the launch of this week’s Inter-Prep School Fixture on Strava. Run by King’s College Taunton, the idea is to bring together the prep school sporting communities at Perrott Hill, King’s Hall and All Hallows – and it’s open to all staff, pupils and parents. All Hallows have taken an early lead averaging 8.22km […]

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3rd February 2021

Perrott Cricketers

Congratulations to George, Ollie, Ronnie, Henry and Toby who have all been selected to take part in Somerset County Cricket Club’s ‘Player Pathway’. All are training over the off season in their respective age groups and play their club cricket for North Perrott Cricket Club. Well done, boys.

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12th February 2020

U12 Cricket Festival

Our U12s enjoyed a top Cricket Festival at Wells Cathedral School last week. Many thanks to the staff and children at Wells for their superb organisation and great cricket and to our friends at Sherborne Prep for some top matches. In other news, well done to the Perrott Hill Equestrian Team who continued their winning ways two Sundays […]

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24th June 2019

Cricket Coaching

Many thanks to Rob Woodman, Head of Cricket at King’s College, Taunton, who ran a brilliant coaching session for our pupils in the Sports Hall yesterday. Rob specialises in batting and fielding, having played for Somerset and Gloucestershire, and it was great to see our boys and girls benefiting from his skills and experience. Thanks, […]

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8th February 2019

The Perrott Hill Plodders

What a line up! The Perrott Hill Plodders beat The All Stars in a thriller of a match at the North Perrott Cricket Club last week by just three runs – with the team including OPHs, past and present parents, staff and assorted hangers on. A lasagne supper in the pavilion rounded off a very […]

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16th May 2018

U8s and U9s cricket coaching

It was great see our Year 3 and 4 pupils enjoying some cricket last week with our Level 2 cricket coach, Mr Bunday. He says: “The fundamental point of coaching children of this age is to instil a long-lasting love of sport, and it’s great to see our U8s and U9s having fun whilst developing […]

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1st May 2018