
Turnbull Winner Brings Home The Cricket And Fives Connection
09/01/25: 2023 Turnbull Trophy winner Jack Home has become the latest Fives player to gain international cricket honours after being selected to tour South Africa this winter with the England U19 squad.
He follows in the recent footsteps of fellow Salopian Fives player Theo Wylie, who was in last year's U19 squad and Berkhamsted's 2022 National Schools' champion Bethan Miles, who was a reserve member of the England women's U19 squad that reached the final of the 2023 World Cup and who now plays for Surrey.
The links between Fives and cricket go back much further than that of course, from the likes of England fast bowler and U21 Fives champion Issy Wong to Harrow Fives coach, 2000 Kinnaird finalist and Middlesex batter Ian Hutchinson. Further back in time, several England cricket captains had parallel sporting careers on the Eton Fives courts, including Mike Brearley (first pair at City of London) and most notably of all Old Carthusian Peter May, one of England's finest ever cricket captains and middle-order batters, who retired from Fives unbeaten having won three consecutive Kinnaird Cup titles in the early 1950s alongside his brother John.
We wish Jack the best of luck in South Africa this winter and look forward to seeing who the next star cricket and fives player is going to be...