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Jacob Bethel is a talented young player. At the age of 17, he has already played the county’s second XI cricket and is training with the Young Lions team in England. He won this week’s Player Awards at the Banbury Festival, the Surgeon Hobbes Memorial Awards (previous winners include Mike Asserton, Mark Lamplakarsh, Mike Gutting, Dom Sibley), and the Greinicols Young Cricket of the Year Has won the award.

HE would walk in a Barbados squad easily. i went school with his father as with young McCaskie.

In reply to openning

This was since January.

In reply to openning
Let’s keep this one a secret so that Raggs does not start jumping in his traitorous rass from now

In reply to analyst-kid
Played schoolboy cricket again Graham Bethel. Good cricketer. If you don’t believe me, ask sudden about the 200 runs opening partnership Bethel and Armstrong put on Cawmere

In reply to Walco

Cawmerians used to play cricket?

In reply to Walco

Sudden was bowling Donkey drops.

In reply to Walco
He was putting up numbers similar to Kraigg at the U13 level, he got my attention then.
Look like he gave up wicketkeeping and is not bowling and batting.
The youngsters that attends Franklyn's academy get to travel to South Africa and England.
Watch the next crop of Barbados stars, see which junior program produce the most players.

In reply to openning

Openning, he was poached from the Wanderers Junior Programme...look and see where many of our young cricketers were groomed before moving on to other clubs.

In reply to Bestian
Which clubs are our young cricketers from? name them.
I have a problem with the structure of cricket within the BCA

all them bajan player of our past who don the maroon colours but in their heart of hearts wanted to be in the three lions outfit...imagine that eh..imagine that.

In reply to Walco

That partnership gone down in school history...was that Sean Armstrong and was that Ronald Tree?

In reply to analyst-kid
In what decade after the sixties did Cawmere started producing the top schoolboys cricketers?
My memory goes back to Robin Bynoe, Ginnie Yearwood, David Holdford, Anthony Howard, Tony King, Greenidge and others I cannot remember, all products of HC.

In reply to Raggs

Dem Bajans ain't give yuh the full story yet.

In reply to openning
Cawmere produced many good Cricketers over the years but in more recent times it was Roddy Estwick coaching the icksters--KB, Chase, Dowrich et al. I played for HC against Cawmere and they were good competition in the 1970s although we mostly prevailed.

In reply to PaceandSpin
I left Bim in 1970, knew about Wes and other attending Cawmere, cannot remember a top player coming out of UOW during the sixties.
Just want my memory to be refresh, with the players of the sixties.

In reply to openning

You may be right, in the 60s Cawmere did not have great players, but had solid players like Ishmael Roett, Earl Williams, John Holder and Hugh Hunte. Very few made Bim school boys team or the National team. They were very competitive in football.


By comparison the school from the north (CP) produced the best schoolboys IMO , namely Gordon Boyce, Wycliffe Phillips, Keith Boyce, Malcolm Hall and a young Chetwyn Burnham , all played for Bim except Gordon Boyce who emigrated to the UK. The Alleyne school ( John Shepherd) , Foundation ( Trevor Best, Wilmar Welch, Erskine King and Darley Boxhill), Lodge ( Colin Blades and the Brathwaite Boys, and HC ( King brothers, Harold Hart and later on Howard and Greenridge ) as well as young players from the elementary schools that shows great promise and had better performances than that of the Waterford school.
The Federal High School had good players like Arlington Hunte and Greyson Nesfield.

coming Sudden.

The Waterford school had great school boys players in the late 50s namely Hall, Brancker, Francis Scott, Anton Norris, Charlie Perkins, Ossie Gill, Ralph Walker and Donald Weekes to name a few.

In reply to tc1
Thanks, some players I am familiar with.
I am familiar with Ossie Gill, he was from St.Joseph, I watched a number of matches Yorkshire playing Maple, my older brother joined Yorkshire in 1964/65.
Ismael Roett is from my neck of the woods, Iplayed plenty cricket with and against guys from Jackson, where Ismael is from.
Vincent Straker who played for Yorkshire and then Emire was a close friend.
I spend some time with Arlington Hunte, he was here visiting one of my former Room mates.
He also invited me to a match between St, Augustine Alumn and a Tony King team, when I was home.
Is Wycliffe nickname Billick?
I remember when Maple joined the 1st division, Yorkshire benefitted from a number of players from St James.
Did Maple had an Intermediate or a 2nd division team, after moving into the first division?

In reply to openning


Maple had an intermediate and a 2nd Div team before moving to the !st Division. The year than the gained promotion to the 1st division (63) , they won both lower divisions in 63 , Shepherd , Boyce and Glenroy Sealy came to Maple. Boyce played 2 years for Empire 1st Division before going to Maple.

Billick is Wycliffe, he scored 996 runs in 9 Div.! games in 64.He played 2 years at Gloucester county.

In reply to analyst-kid
Yes and yes. Ronald Tree 1978.

In reply to openning
Oh shite opening. Mr Do As I Say, Not As I Do is on the case now. Expect young Bethel to be shamed into playing for the West Indies in short order. There will be two white lads representing the West Indies soon.

In reply to Headley

In reply to Walco
I have no room for hypocrites.