Posh cricketers
Are women even "posher" than men? Private schools etc.
Am I the only person to think that England’s women’s test team is unbelievably “posh”?
I have wondered about this for some time but was prompted to do a bit of research bu the double-barreledness of xxx Sciver-Brunt (pronounced “Seiver”, and certainly NOT “schiver”!).
Double-barreled names always meant the aristocracy to me. I never came across people of that ilk until I went to Cambridge, where the place was full of them (Graham Benyon-Tinker please stand up).
I’m aware that double-barrels are more common in the USA, and more common now than in earlier years, partly due to the trend among women of merging their surname with that of their husband. (Is there any convention about which name comes first?)
However, back to cricket! My investigation in this will be limited to examining today’s England Women’s Test Team, and seeing whether they went to an independent school of not, which overall in Britain are attended by just xx% of children.
As far as I can tell, from Wikipedia and other irrefutable sources, the following are the cricketers concerned, and the schools that they attended:
Heather Knight (captain) - Plymstock School (state)
Tammy Beaumont - Sir Roger Manwood (selective grammar school)
Emma Lamb - school unknown
Natalie Sciver-Brunt - Epsom College (selective)
Sophia Dunkley - Mill Hill School (selective)
Danni Wyatt - school unknown
Amy Jones - John Wilmott School (state)
Sophie Ecclestone - Helsby High School (state)
Kate Cross - school unknown (mother was a lawyer)
Lauren Filer - school unknown
Lauren Bell - school unknown.
Disappointingly, five of the eleven schools of these cricketer were unknown.
Of the remaining six, three (50%) were private or selective. This compares with just xx% of xx in the xx population as a whole. The selectivity quotient is therefore 50%/xx% = xxx.
Whether this is greater or less than male sportsmen remains to be seen.