South African youngster Gareth Schreuder has called time on his two-year stay with ECB Southern Premier League club Lymington.
The 20-year old, who joined Lymington at the start of the 2019 season, is set to join Warminster, who play in West of England Premier League’s third tier.
Schreuder, a second-year sports coaching and development degree student at Southampton Solent University, has been offered a player/coach role at the Wiltshire club.
Explaining his reasons for leaving Lymington, Schreuder explained: “I am disappointed the direction my cricket has gone in the past 12 months and I’ve certainly not moved on as I had hoped.
“I really need a fresh start in a new environment. They have an indoor centre at Warminster, where I can really push on with the individual and technical coaching side of my game, which is important for my university degree.”
Schreuder joined Lymington in April 2019 following a successful winter in which he excelled at Hilton College, was selected for South Africa Under-19 Colts and helped Kz Natal Dolphins become CSA U19 Cubs champions for the first time.
Swinging
But he feels he under-achieved at Lymington, despite being their leading 2019 batsman, with 471 runs in 17 SPL innings, noticeably two-thirds of his total coming in the ‘white ball’ 50 -over matches, including a late season century against Basingstoke & North Hants and 60-plus scores against Bournemouth and Alton.
“I struggled in the red-ball ‘time’ games, the conditions being alien to what I had experienced at home in South Africa. I never really adapted to the slow swinging ball, annoyingly getting out almost every time I’d made a start,” he added.
Ironically, Schreuder produced his best red-ball innings for Surrey second team, hitting unbeaten half-centuries against Kent and a powerful Middlesex side. He also helped Hampshire seconds reach the ECB County Second XI t20 final at Arundel in 2019.
Things got no better for the South African talent when he returned to the UK in August, scoring only 35 runs in the last four matches of Lymington’s unsuccessful Southern Premier League Cup campaign, all of which they lost.
Schreuder flew back to his Johannesburg family home this weekend and will play his first match for two years on South Africa soil for his home town club Boksburg at Kempton Park in the Easterns Premier League on Sunday.
The 20-year old, who joined Lymington at the start of the 2019 season, is set to join Warminster, who play in West of England Premier League’s third tier.
Schreuder, a second-year sports coaching and development degree student at Southampton Solent University, has been offered a player/coach role at the Wiltshire club.
Explaining his reasons for leaving Lymington, Schreuder explained: “I am disappointed the direction my cricket has gone in the past 12 months and I’ve certainly not moved on as I had hoped.
“I really need a fresh start in a new environment. They have an indoor centre at Warminster, where I can really push on with the individual and technical coaching side of my game, which is important for my university degree.”
Schreuder joined Lymington in April 2019 following a successful winter in which he excelled at Hilton College, was selected for South Africa Under-19 Colts and helped Kz Natal Dolphins become CSA U19 Cubs champions for the first time.
Swinging
But he feels he under-achieved at Lymington, despite being their leading 2019 batsman, with 471 runs in 17 SPL innings, noticeably two-thirds of his total coming in the ‘white ball’ 50 -over matches, including a late season century against Basingstoke & North Hants and 60-plus scores against Bournemouth and Alton.
“I struggled in the red-ball ‘time’ games, the conditions being alien to what I had experienced at home in South Africa. I never really adapted to the slow swinging ball, annoyingly getting out almost every time I’d made a start,” he added.
Ironically, Schreuder produced his best red-ball innings for Surrey second team, hitting unbeaten half-centuries against Kent and a powerful Middlesex side. He also helped Hampshire seconds reach the ECB County Second XI t20 final at Arundel in 2019.
Things got no better for the South African talent when he returned to the UK in August, scoring only 35 runs in the last four matches of Lymington’s unsuccessful Southern Premier League Cup campaign, all of which they lost.
Schreuder flew back to his Johannesburg family home this weekend and will play his first match for two years on South Africa soil for his home town club Boksburg at Kempton Park in the Easterns Premier League on Sunday.