St Bart’s in Top 25 Cricket Schools!
We are delighted to have been named among the Top 25 state schools nationally for cricket in The Cricketer magazine’s illustrious Schools Guide for 2025. This year is the first time in the decade-long history of the publication that our sector has had its own category – and there we are, rubbing shoulders with numerous grammars and sixth form colleges that are essentially specialist cricket academies!
According to The Cricketer, the entrants “were judged against an extensive set of criteria, which included a compelling commitment to cricket in the curriculum, facilities, fixture programmes and coaching”. A beaming but uncaptioned Leo (now Y11) is our pictured individual. Perhaps most gratifying of all was to see Reading School declare their “Finest moment on the field” to be winning the inaugural Toby Radford Trophy, the competition we invented last year for state-school 1st XIs. Copies of the guide can be bought here, although it also comes packaged with the Christmas edition of the magazine, which is a little cheaper and features a festive celebration – “Joe Ho Ho!” – of England’s leading Test run scorer. Available from all good newsagents, as they say.
