Pemberton Greenish Extend Academy Sponsorship

24 February 2010

The Pemberton Greenish Surrey Academy can today announce two pieces of exciting news – the extension of the Pemberton Greenish sponsorship until 2012 and the announcement of a series of elite friendlies with the Shepherd Neame Surrey Championship Premier Division.

During the 2010 season, PG Academy members will be involved with the professional squad programmes as well as the PG Academy programme run by director Gareth Townsend. The PG Academy intake for 2010 is fast bowlers George Edwards and Matthew Dunn; batsmen Zafar Ansari and Shaun Cousens; spinner Freddie vanden Burgh and England Women’s International Ebony Rainford-Brent.

PG Academy graduates include Tom Jewell, Tom Lancefield, Muhunthan Harinath and Seren Waters, all of whom are on the 2010 EPC [Emerging Player Contract] scheme and first team squad members Rory Hamilton-Brown, Laurie Evans, Simon King, Jade Dernbach, Stuart Meaker, Arun Harinath and Matthew Spriegel.

Further to this, it has been recently confirmed that the PG Academy will take on Shepherd Neame Surrey Championship Premier Division sides in a high profile series of elite friendlies that will take place on Sundays throughout the 2010 season.

Speaking after watching a PG Academy training session at the Brit Oval on Tuesday, Pemberton Greenish Senior Partner Damian Greenish said: “The PG Academy aims to identify and develop young cricketing talent and will be rewarding in terms of following the great players of the future. There are already seven PG Academy graduates on the Surrey staff, a fact I look on with great pride.

“As a firm, we have enjoyed our involvement with Surrey over the past seven years. Both our clients and staff have felt the benefits of our sponsorship of Surrey. We look forward to maintaining our involvement as the products of our funding continue to be seen in the First XI.”

The Managing Director of Surrey Cricket Gus Mackay added: “Pemberton Greenish are a true friend of Surrey Cricket and it is extremely pleasing that we have been able to extend our agreement for another three years.

“Developing and producing young cricketing talent within Surrey is very much part of our strategy to become the team of the decade. There is nothing more fulfilling in sport than to be able to watch a player seamlessly move from an U10 side to the First XI and without the support of Pemberton Greenish this ambition would be far harder to achieve.”

To see interviews with Damian Greenish and Gareth Townsend, click on Play Video in the top left hand corner of this article.