FORSTER 18-year-old, Bryan Warren, continues to impress in his summer with London's Richmond Cricket Club.
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The young Great Lakes cricketer has played 27 games with the Club in various team formats and continues to lead both the batting and the bowling, in both the league and other games.
Warren, selected initially for a cricket placement in the UK by the Lord’s Taverners Northern NSW, and subsequently the Adam Gilchrist scholarship recipient for 2014, has benefited immensely during the last three months.
Last week the Richmond club held their annual Cricket Week with Warren playing seven games in eight days.
The increased amount of batting he has gained has seen him develop his all round skills, hitting three centuries in the last few weeks - 163, 103not out and 149. The last two were scored last week when, against the London lawyers team, he hit eight fours and eight sixes to retire on 103 when his team was in a winning position. On Thursday against the strong Kensington Cricket Club he scored 149 of his team’s 238 (18 fours and 11 sixes), yet saw his team lose by 41 runs.
In the Saturday League and Under 21 Academy side, in 13 games Warren has scored 421 runs at 46.77 and taken 23 wickets for 335 off 104.5 overs, 24 maidens.
Overall he has played 27 games in which he has batted 21 times with two not outs for 994 runs at 52.31. He has bowled 182.1 overs, 40 maidens, with 50 wickets for 594 runs at an average of 11.88. (For the cricketers his economy rate is 3.26 and his strike rate 21.85).
Warren was bowled for 23 in a recent game against Ealing; he took two wickets and ended only six runs short of a season milestone of 50 wickets and 1000 runs.
No doubt he would like to continue this form for the next two months of cricket. It should hold him in good stead when he returns home for the start of the Australian season.