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SPORTInG HIGHLIGHTS
County cricket
This was the first year that a formal tender process was used to decide the venue for the Bunbury festival. Eastbourne College beat more than 25 schools who had expressed an interest in hosting
The Festival’s pedigree boasts over 80 Bunbury ‘graduates’ who have gone on to win international caps, and hundreds more to play county cricket. Last summer, Danial Ibrahim was selected for the Bunbury XI against the West Indies, receiving his cap from Sir Alastair Cook.
Cross country
The annual steeplechase event saw 550 pupil and staff runners from
the College and 20 from St Andrew’s Prep take on the Downland courses. Pupils were equipped with the latest Race Result Active and RFID Passive Race Timing Systems provided by Velopace Race Timing, facilitating timing and split-timing accuracy down to 0.01 seconds. Anastasija Timofejeva won the senior girls, and Ben Fox the senior boys and Ben was also crowned King of the Hill for recording the fastest time over the most challenging climb.
Tom Hinley, Danial Ibrahim, Oliver Carter and Jamie Atkins, Sussex CCC Academy
Danial Ibrahim won the Sussex CCC U15 player-of-the-year award. Danial, Jamie Atkins, Oliver Carter and Tom Hinley were named as four of only ten boys chosen for the Sussex CCC Academy.They are among 20 pupils at the College who played at county and higher representative levels this year.
Sri Lanka cricket tour
Sri Lanka tour squad
The senior boys squad enjoyed a pre-season tour to Sri Lanka, including matches at the Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium where Tawanda scored 120 not out off 70 balls, and at the Foundation of Goodness Ground where the team scored 199 off 15 overs including Jani Flind hitting 80 not out off 37 balls.
Hamish Reilly finished third in the U17 British Championships at Loughborough. The following week he represented Sussex at the U18 English Schools Championships. Hamish was nominated for selection for the World School Cross Country Championships in April which was cancelled owing to Covid-19. Jonny Peate and Cameron Wallace-Carville ran for Sussex at the South East Schools inter-county race at Writtle University Chelmsford, Essex.
Girls at Sussex Champs before...
Hamish Reilly, nominated for selection for World School Cross Country Championships
Bunbury Festival
Danial Ibrahim receiving his Bunbury XI cap from Sir Alastair Cook
The College won the right to host one of the most famous events in the British cricketing calendar. The 34th edition
of the renowned England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) David English Bunbury Festival would have played
out at Eastbourne College in August. The top U15 players from across the country would have represented the North, Midlands, London & East, and South & West in 50-over and 20-over competitions.
... and after Storm Brendan
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