SOMERSET County Cricket Club has announced the new intake of players joining the Academy at the Cooper Associates County Ground at Taunton this autumn.

Alongside those players involved in the winter training squads and those on the Pathway, King’s College and King’s College Prep are both well represented.

The King’s students joining the Academy this autumn are batter all-rounder Theo L and bowler Harry D, both of whom will link up with wicket-keeper batter Thomas R, Blaise B – who is a fast bowler – as well as top order batter Bertie M.

Along with those joining Somerset, James M, has joined the Gloucestershire Academy. Girls’ cricket at King’s continues to go from strength to strength.

Katie R, Maddie R and Emma M are part of Somerset Girls’ EPP, with Mia M and Erin D currently representing Jersey Women’s team in the T10 European Cricket Women’s Championship.

King’s also has several students playing in Devon, Cornwall, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Jersey, from Pathway and EPP through to international level.

Over the years King’s have produced a number of players who have gone onto play First Class cricket and some have progressed to represent England at international level including Jos Buttler and Tom Banton.