Schools match of the week: Shrewsbury School v Repton School

10 out of 10 for Shrewsbury as they see off Repton

Shrewsbury: Repton School 151-7, Shrewsbury School 152-1 - Shrewsbury School win by nine wickets

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Shrewsbury School continued their perfect start to the summer with a nine-wicket win over Repton School.

The home side have won all 10 of their matches so far.

Repton won the toss and chose to bat first but struggled on a pitch that had seen constant rain in the week leading up to the fixture.

With the outfield significantly slower, boundaries were hard to come by, and after opening with a brief spell of seam, Shrewsbury quickly turned to their vast arsenal of spinners.

The Repton run-rate slowed with Garrett bowling the dangerous Chima for three and Sissons' left-arm twirlers returned figures of 3-32.

Repton's opener and captain, Hobson, accumulated sensibly, scoring 64 off 83 balls, and ensured the Derbyshire school posted something defendable.

However, he didn't receive enough support, with several of the middle order making starts before succumbing to the Shrewsbury spinners.

Repton finished on 151-7 from their 40 overs.

The slow outfield proved no problem for Shrewsbury's Humes. The captain blasted 73 off 32 at the top of the order and once he was stumped off the bowling of Hobson, Bevans and Clarke calmly guided Shrewsbury to victory with 20.4 overs to spare.

It was an outstanding innings from the attack-minded Humes, whose overall strike-rate over the past three seasons nears 200.

"We just let him go do his thing and not put any restrictions on him at all," said Shrewsbury’s master in charge, Andy Barnard, of his captain.

"He plays in very much the same way as Ed Pollock did when he was a pupil here, and now you see him continuing his progress with Warwickshire.

"For us, developing players is our bread and butter. We want our pupils to go and play professionally.

"The most important development was our indoor school being built in 2006 with cricket being its sole purpose. I suspect that is one of the reasons James Taylor went on to play for England, because he spent so many hours hitting balls in there when he was 15."

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