Glamorgan Cricket is delighted to announce the players who will be in the 2025 Glamorgan Boys’ Academy.
The players selected for the 2025 Glamorgan Boys’ Academy are listed below along with their home clubs:
· Tom Norton, Usk Cricket Club
· Jack Hope-Bell, Newport Cricket Club
· Zac Williams, St Fagans Cricket Club
· Romano Franco, Hawarden Cricket Club
· Luke Humphries, Bridgend Cricket Club
· Lewis Popple, Cardiff Cricket Club
· Jacob Blades, St Fagans Cricket Club
· Harry Wallace, Newport Cricket Club
· Jack Kenchington, Brecon Cricket Club
· Thomas Edwards, Pontardulais Cricket Club
· Aaron Bird, Maesteg Cricket Club
We are also pleased that Cardiff Metropolitan University, who have supported the Glamorgan Boys’ Academy since 2013, will continue to sponsor the Boys’ Academy as well as the newly launched Girls’ Academy as the club’s official Higher Education partner.
Richard Almond, Glamorgan Cricket Head of Talent Development said: “We are delighted to continue our longstanding relationship with Cardiff Metropolitan University.
“It is really important for us to promote a dual aspirational approach in developing our Academy players. This relationship has helped encourage many of our Academy graduates to continue their cricket development whilst studying for a degree at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
“The university’s valuable support will help Glamorgan’s aim to continue to produce homegrown players.”
This follows the announcement that Admiral have become the Glamorgan Official Player Pathway partner.