Former Bashley (Rydal) cricketer Finn Gordon named ECB Southern Premier League and Dorset Young Cricketer of the Year

Teenager Finn Gordon has celebrated a run-strewn summer by being named ECB Southern Premier League and Dorset Young Cricketer of the Year.

The talented 17-year-old left-hand opening batsman, who has featured for Bashley (Rydal), played a lead role in Hampshire Academy’s maiden Premier League championship triumph, scoring 651 runs, writes Mike Vimpany.

The run tally included four half-centuries and a 128-inning against Bashley (Rydal). He then took 105 off the St Cross Symondians bowling attack.

For good measure, his developing spin bowling was rewarded with 18 league wickets.

Gordon, whose elder brother Jacob scored over 600 runs for Bashley (Rydal), also made his mark for Dorset in the National Counties Championships – a top score of 123 against Wales NC at Ebbw Vale in August.

Finn’s aggregate 302 runs in six knocks for Dorset took his season’s tally to 1,439 in competitive cricket. He hit three hundreds and nine half-centuries.

He also played regularly for Hampshire Second XI and was selected to play in the prestigious ECB U18 Elite Player Development regional tournament at Loughborough in August.