LAST week, we featured a picture of the girls from Corbridge Middle School, destined to head for Edgbaston for the national softball cricket championships.

It seemed opportune, therefore, to look back to when the under-11 boys from Ovingham Middle School Under 11s cricket side reached the final of the competition. We’re not sure of the exact year they were at Edgbaston.

But we do know that this particular team were unable to repeat the previous year’s victory by the school. The team pictured with teacher John Pickworth comprised (back row) Peter Thompson, Paul Rutheford, Mark Bowes, Michael Tate, Anthony Andrews and Gareth Robson; (front) Jonathan Mannering, Christopher Travis and Martin Burgess