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Cricketers Simon Keen and Mitch Williams... South Africa-bound in September.trip of lifetime |
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WESTFIELDS sports High School has unearthed another talented cricketing duo who will soon travel
over the Indian Ocean to South Africa.
Simon Keen, 15, and Mitch Williams, 16, are both headed to South Africa as members of the NSW Combined High Schools team. Westfields Sports High School cricket and development coach Ian Gill said the youngsters will leave for the three weeks tour in September. Simon Keen, the left-handed batting prodigy, has had a "bumper season" representing NSW Schoolboys under-15, Cricket NSW under-17, plays third grade for Bankstown club in the Sydney Cricket Association competition and was also a member of the Bankstown Green Shield under-16 junior representative team, which won the |
competition undefeated.
Ian Gill is the coach of the Green Shield team which reigned supreme in season 2002-2003. Keen reeled off 1259 runs in all matches for teams this season, averaging a respectable 32. Gill concedes that Keen had a solid sumer, without being over spectacular, but his endurance skills stood the test playing so matches for different teams in such a short space of time. "Simon's got a lot of natual talent as a batsman and works very hard on his game," Gill said. "Mitch is a promising allrounder who can bat aggressively and bowl well." Mitch Williams, 16, a year 11 student at Westfields, plays second grade for Fairfield-Liverpool and also played for the NSW |
Schoolboys under-15 team last season.
For the most recent season, the allrounder also represented the NSW under-16 Emerging Blues outfit. Ironically, the good friends and school buddies, clashed in the Green Shield final, with Keen (Bankstown) and Williams (Fairfield-Liverpool) pitted against one another. Williams top scored for the Fairfield-Liverpool side in the final making 69, and taking 2-36 with the ball in his hand. Keen made a classy 96-topscoring for Bankstown-the winners- an innings which coach Gill said thoroughly deserved a century. "Both Mitchell and Simon will benefit greatly from the South Africam tour". Gill said. With thanks  Wed. 14th May 2003 |
