Hampshire Academy talent Tom Prest has been named as the county’s Under-15 Cricketer of the Year.
The Canford School prospect is pictured with the silver Peter Lewin memorial salver, awarded annually to the top player in the Under-15 junior age group.
Prest, from Wimborne, captained Hampshire to the ECB Under-15 Cup quarter-finals this past summer, scoring almost 450 runs, including centuries against Gloucestershire (109 not out) and Surrey (105).
One of the Academy’s eight strong intake for 2019, he also took 11 wickets with his off-spin and snapped up seven catches.
His all-round performances earned subsequent selection for the South & West at the Bunbury Festival and contributed with bat and ball as his side won both the 50-over and T20 competitions.
He made several ECB Southern Premier Division appearances for the Academy last summer, top scoring with 81 in a narrow 14-run defeat by runners-up, Burridge in July.
Alongside Hampshire's Joe Weatherley, new boy Harry Came and Fletcha Middleton, Prest recently spent ten days at a “thoroughly rewarding” batting clinic at India’s historic Brabourne Cricket Stadium in Mumbai. He is currently combining his GCSE studies at Canford with training at the Ageas Bowl.
The Canford School prospect is pictured with the silver Peter Lewin memorial salver, awarded annually to the top player in the Under-15 junior age group.
Prest, from Wimborne, captained Hampshire to the ECB Under-15 Cup quarter-finals this past summer, scoring almost 450 runs, including centuries against Gloucestershire (109 not out) and Surrey (105).
One of the Academy’s eight strong intake for 2019, he also took 11 wickets with his off-spin and snapped up seven catches.
His all-round performances earned subsequent selection for the South & West at the Bunbury Festival and contributed with bat and ball as his side won both the 50-over and T20 competitions.
He made several ECB Southern Premier Division appearances for the Academy last summer, top scoring with 81 in a narrow 14-run defeat by runners-up, Burridge in July.
Alongside Hampshire's Joe Weatherley, new boy Harry Came and Fletcha Middleton, Prest recently spent ten days at a “thoroughly rewarding” batting clinic at India’s historic Brabourne Cricket Stadium in Mumbai. He is currently combining his GCSE studies at Canford with training at the Ageas Bowl.
