Swardeston’s Bud Bailey has become one of only four players this year to be presented with a Telegraph/Bunbury scholarship award.
In the fifth year of The Daily Telegraph’s sponsorship of the Bunbury English Schools Cricket Association’s Under-15 Festival, three players from the South XI, Sam Northeast, Tom Winslade and Bud Bailey, and one from the West, James Harris, were presented with Telegraph/Bunbury scholarship awards.
All four will have a week of intensive training at the ECB Academy at Loughborough University alongside England’s senior players and an insight into how senior professionals prepare for tours and an upcoming season. Thirteen boys have already passed through the scholarship system under fromer ECB Academy director Rod Marsh at Loughborough.
Bud, decsribed as “…a pace bowler with the Northants Academy who generates good bounce” was selected for his raw talent and potential.
Eight of the England Test team fielded at Lord’s in last week’s Ashes Test are former ‘Bunburys’.
At a gala dinner held in Newquay at the end of the Cornwall festival, the four aspiring professionals were presented with their awards.
The other three chosen were:
Northeast, a Harrow batsman, received an additional Telegraph award for outstanding player of the tournament. Northeast scored an accomplished 152 off 161 balls on the opening day of the tournament at Falmouth, having performed brilliantly in the field.
Winslade, an off-spinner from Whitgift School here playing for Surrey, took a hatful of wickets at the festival. An unorthodox spinner, he shot to prominence this Easter when he went to Cape Town as the youngest member of a Surrey Academy touring side and returned as the leading wicket-taker.
Harris, representing The West, a seam bowling all-rounder from Wales. He made his Glamorgan Second XI debut early in the season, taking three wickets against Warwickshire.
