13 Aug 2015 | Cricket
Glamorgan's Aneurin Donald, Lancashire's Haseeb Hameed and several other members of England's Under-19 squad had an unusual and important distraction the day before the second Royal London One-Day International against Australia in Chesterfield tomorrow.
Like thousands of other teenagers across the country, they received their A-level results - and both were relatively happy with the news.
My mum went into school down in Swansea and phoned me up this morning, said Donald, who has taken over the captaincy for the one-day series after Hameed led the team in last week's four-day match.
I got an A, a B and a D, which I'm happy enough with. It's not been an easy year because we had an Under-19s trip to Australia in the spring, but we all took our work with us.
Hameed, who attended Bolton School, was also happy with a B and a C, and like Donald has decided to postpone the possibility of going to university to concentrate on his cricket career with Lancashire.
It is the same story for George Garton, Sussex's left-arm seamer who had very good news from Hurstpierpoint College - A, A*, B.
Ben Green, an all-rounder from Devon who is on the Somerset staff, is one of the younger members of the squad but he also had good news from Exeter School, with an A, a B and a C in his AS levels.
All four celebrated in suitable style after practice at Queen's Park, with an ice cream from the ice cream van outside Chesterfield's famous Frederick's Gelateria.