Acorn Sponsor Cricket Tour

Acorn Sponsor Cricket Tour

Acorn Sponsors Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup in India

When one of our clients Temple Heelis told us they were participating in the Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup we just had to find out more and get involved.

Peter Dodd, a trainee solicitor at Temple Heelis has recently returned from playing for England at the Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup in India. While England did not fare well in the overall tournament, lawyers from around the world had an extraordinary experience of playing cricket in one of the most fascinating countries in the world.

Peter comments: “Our cricketing performance was not fantastic - a particular low point was a thrashing against the West Indies who scored over 300 runs in 30 overs. We struggled to get past 100 in reply and shuffled off the pitch in embarrassment. We should have beaten Australia in our opening game, but dropped catches cost us dear; the only game in which we really did ourselves justice was our final game against India (the eventual winners). Here, we batted with purpose, bowled accurately and gave a very good account of ourselves against a team who contained several ex-professional cricketers”.

Regarding his own personal performance Peter said, “I was satisfied with my personal batting performances, although I would have liked to have done better. I managed to get past 20 against both Australia and India which doesn’t sound like a lot but in the context of our overall batting displays both were pretty decent scores. My wicket keeping also went pretty well although I seemed to spend a lot of time admiring some destructive batting from the opposition and watching the ball sail over the boundary ropes!”.

“I’d like to thank the Acorn Coaching for being a sponsor of my trip. Without their help I would not have been able to take part in the competition”.

The next Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup has been scheduled to take place in Cambridge in 2009.

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