Eastbourne College’s Tawanda Muyeye is the latest in a prestigious line of recipients of the Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year award, securing the gong in the 2020 edition of the Wisden Almanack.
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The award was incepted in 2007, and set an early trend for picking out young players who would go on to enjoy great international success, with Jonny Bairstow, James Taylor, and Jos Buttler the first three winners. All have gone on to make hundreds for England, with the first and last Ashes and World Cup winners. Taylor is now an England selector.
Though no Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year since 2009 has gone onto play for England, the 2014 winner Dylan Budge has played for Scotland, and Daniel Bell-Drummond, Tom Abell, and Tom Kohler-Cadmore have all enjoyed success at county level.
If you needed more convincing that Muyeye is one to watch, such can be found on his YouTube channel; the youngster appears equally adept at the twin modern arts of inventive batsmanship and social media self-promotion. In fairness, the shot at 1.10 in the below video could justify a 1,536-page tome all on its own.
