A Saundersfoot firm of financial advisers has given a boost to a talented local teenage cricketer.
County Financial Consultants, based at Seaview, Cambrian Terrace, were delighted this week to give sponsorship to 14-year-old Jack Murphy, who is set to embark on the tour of a lifetime in March and April, when he visits the West Indies as a member of the South and West of England Under 15 team.
The company has given support to all-rounder Jack right from the beginning of his budding cricket career, having provided sponsorship for his first kit when he was playing at Under 11s level for Wales.
This latest tour party comprises the cream of the cricketing crop from the south and west of England and the whole of Wales, and Jack is the only player from the west of Wales to receive a call-up as an opening bowler and middle order batsman.
The team will play nine matches in all, taking on teams in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and finishing off in Barbados.
Last season, Jack played a big part in the Wales Under 14s team, only losing one game all season and taking wickets in most games and batting at number five.
As well as Wales, Jack made his Cresselly first team debut this year and was honoured to open the bowling in the semi-final of the Village Cup, only to lose out to the eventual winners of the competition.
Jack attends the Emerging Players programme at Glamorgan Cricket Club, as well as Welsh winter nets in Neath. He has represented Wales for the last five years as opening bowler and middle order batsman.
Cresselly Cricket Club will also be holding a fund-raising event for Jack on March 13 at the club, which will feature a horse race and curry night.