The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Kester heads down under with England
City teenager Kester Sainsbury is currently in Australia with the England learning disability squad.
Sainsbury who came through the ranks of the thriving Orton Park Cricket Club, but who now plays for Market Deeping, is in a squad facing four T20 and three one-day international matches at Brisbane. He celebrates his 19th birthday while he’s away.
England won the first T20 game by seven wickets with Sainsbury bowling two overs at a cost of 17 runs.
Opening bowler Sainsbury was in the England learning disabililty squad when they whitewashed their Australian counterparts on their last trip Down Under in 2019.
Orton Park have a strong record of bringing through talented young players – most notably Sam Jarvis who is currently playing Northants Premier Division cricket with Oundle Town and Minor Counties cricket with Bedfordshire at the age of 17.
Sixteen-year-old Jarius Charles claimed his first senior half century for the club in a Cambs Division Three game against Biggleswade last weekend and almost turned it into a ton. Charles was 93 not out when Orton's innings closed on 211-8, but Biggleswade went on to win comfortably by eight wickets.
And Tom Holman (20), another to play for the club as a junior, claimed 7-20 from just eight overs as Orton Park seconds romped to an eight wicket win against Heckington on South Lincs Division One. Heckington were skittled for just 57.
There was a tight finish in a bottom of the table scrap in Cambs Division Three as Wisbech seconds pipped AK 11 by just four runs. An innings of 58 from Jamie Gollands and four wickets for Rhys Howell proved decisive for the winners.
Charlie Agnew (110), Andy Larkin (97) and a late 15-ball 53 not out (7 sixes) from Mohammed Raheel, pushed Ufford Park up to 356-6 in their 50 overs as they beat Foxton Granta seconds by 117 runs in Cambs Division Two. Shoib Choudary (5-23) also performed well for Ufford.
Castor went down by 25 runs at Sawston & Babraham seconds despite 60 from run machine Mark Wheat and a decent all-round effort from Connor Parnell (3-31 & 43).