Gloucestershire quartet set for ECB U17 Super-4s competiton
21 August 2017
Gloucestershire quartet Milo Ayres, Ben Charlesworth, Jack Gibbs and Tom Price will today link up with the U17 South West team for the prestigious ECB Super-4s at the National Performance Centre, Loughborough.
The tournament begins on Tuesday and will have a different structure this year. The teams will play each other in 50-over matches over the first three days of the competition, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
But instead of a Finals Day on the Saturday, the champions will be determined by the final placings in the league table - leaving Saturday clear for a separate T20 competition.
Four members of the England Under-19s squad are among the 56 young talents who will contest the fifth Super-4 Competition for the country’s outstanding Under-17s in Loughborough this week.
Derbyshire’s Hamidullah Qadri and Worcestershire’s Adam Finch will line up for the Midlands, Essex seamer Ben Allison for London and East, and Somerset all-rounder Tom Lammonby – who was named England’s best player in the Royal London One-Day Series against India – will hope to lead the South West to a first Super-4 victory.
The North have dominated the competition since it was introduced in 2013, winning their third title out of four last summer – when Yorkshire’s Harry Brook was named man of the tournament, and Durham’s Matt Potts was man of the match in the final.
James Taylor, the former Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and England batsman, will speak to the players when they gather in Loughborough on Monday, and the cricket will be watched by a number of England’s lead coaches as well as Young Lions selectors and scouts, raising the stakes for the players involved.
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