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Cricket is the main sport in the Summer Term at the John Fisher School. Below are records for 1st XI performances, past captains and Masters in Charge.

Master in Charge & Past Captains

Hundreds Scored for 1st XI

30 or more Wickets for 1st XI

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As a former Specialist Sports College The John Fisher School has a national reputation for its sporting achievements across a range of sports including; rugby union, cross-country, cricket and athletics.

Our School has twice won the Rosslyn Park National Schools’ 7-a-side Open Rugby Tournament (1997, 1998); and have been runners-up on four occasions 1998, 2008, 2014, and 2015. In 2009 the 1^st XV were semi-finalists in the Daily Mail RBS Cup and in 2000 our U15 were finalists in the Daily Mail Cup played at Twickenham. Our 1^st XV won the National fifteen a side tournament at St Joseph’s School, Ipswich in 2009 and were runners up in 2012. Only sixteen of the very best schools in the United Kingdom are invited to this tournament.

In Cricket our 1^st XI has an annual fixture with the MCC and were finalists in the 2006 Independent Schools Twenty/20 competition played at Edgbaston. John Fisher boys regularly represent clubs, counties and their country at schoolboy level throughout the year.

John Fisher are past winners of the National Track and Field Cup competition and we regularly make the final which is for the top twelve schools each season. We are one of the few schools in the country who still run regular athletics matches on our fields.

At a time when many state schools have abolished Saturday sports fixtures it is of great pride that our School is able to regularly put out twenty teams each weekend competing against some of the very best state, public and independent schools in the country.

In order to play competitive games to the highest level that we do, we need to be sure that all boys are available to play for the school, either on Saturday morning or afternoon, as required, since most of the school fixtures are on Saturdays. Parents should be aware of the importance the school attaches to this before applying for a place. In practice, this is not normally a problem, as boys are only too keen to play for the school and for their parents to come along and watch them. The termly School Calendar includes the complete fixture list, and each boy is issued with one at the beginning of each term.

The John Fisher School - Sporting Alumni:

• Walter d'Hondt - 1956 Melbourne Olympic Gold Medal, 1960 Rome Olympic Silver Medal, 1958 Commonwealth Games Gold & Silver Medals in rowing (Canada)
• Martyn Rooney - 2008 Beijing Olympics 400m finalist, 2009 World Championships Silver Medal, 2012 London Olympics, 2014 Glasgow and Great Britain Athletics Captain
• Paul Sackey - England Rugby International and Stade Francais Rugby Union player
• Derry Coughlan - England U19, London Irish and Lansdowne Rugby Union player
• Sean Crowley - record-breaking and solo trans-Atlantic rower
• Mike Nestor - record-breaking trans-Atlantic rower
• Zane Scotland - PGA Tour golfer
• Keiran Stanton - PGA Tour golfer
• Ricky Nebbett - England A, Leicester, Leinster and Harlequins Rugby Union player
• Simon Hunt - England Sevens Rugby Union player and Barbarians
• George Skivington - England Saxons and London Irish Rugby Union player and Captain
• Kyle Traynor - Edinburgh Rugby Club, Scotland U18, 19, & 21 (captain), Barbarians
• Tim Murtagh - Professional cricket player Surrey, Middlesex & England U19
• Chris Murtagh - Professional cricket player Surrey
• Laurie Evans - Professional cricket player Warwickshire
• Matt Williams - England Rugby Sevens professional
• Jack Walsh - England Rugby Sevens professional
• Oscar Borg - Professional football player, West Ham United
• Jonathan Magrin Wallace - Professional rugby league player, London Broncos
• Kieran Treadwell - Professional rugby union player, Harlequins