MTJBS – Old Trafford Cricket

Old Trafford Cricket

On Friday 24th June Adam Blagbrough, Harry Scott, Henry Syncer, Monty Barr and myself went to Old Trafford Cricket Ground for a coaching session with Ashley Giles.
We left school at 8:30am. After we arrived at Old Trafford we met Sandy Mitchell, who works for Lancashire County Cricket Club Charity Foundation and he told us they have a lot of school children who visit them.

Because it started to rain, Sandy took us indoors to the nets and we met Ashley Giles on the way. Ashley was really nice and friendly. Once we were inside Ashley made us warm up by doing sprints up and down the arena. Ashley said he could not join in because he had just eaten a full English breakfast pizza and he was too full!

After the warm up we went into the nets and played for 2 hours nonstop. We took it in turns to bat and bowl. Ashley coached us on our batting but mostly bowling. With bowling he filmed us individually and played it back explaining how we could improve and he put cones out so we had to run in a straight line to bowl.

We had a great time and once the session was over we then had a photograph taken with Ashley. Sandy and Ashley then took us on a tour of the players’ dressing rooms and the press centre and Ashley told us about winning the Ashes against Australia in 2005. Before we left Sandy gave each of us a new bat. We had a great day and on the way back to school stopped for lunch at McDonalds. We were really grateful to Sandy and Ashley for being so nice and making the day so enjoyable.

By James Green Y4H