TWO cricket teenagers have just spent a once-in-a-lifetime afternoon with the England cricket captain, Michael Vaughan.
Tom Fraser, 13, from Entworth, near Alton and Harry Sorrell, 15, from Eastleigh, spent two hours in the nets bowling and batting with their hero on Monday, three days before Vaughan was due to play the first South Africa Test.
The boys were two of just three winners of a national competition organised by the high-tech Australian compression clothing company Skins, which sponsors the England captain.
The Skins Sporting Chance prize draw attracted thousands of entries.
As part of their prize, both youngsters were allowed to bring along a friend - Tom brought Alex Hammond, and Harry Serge Bresloff, both 13.
Accompanied by the boys' fathers Hugh Fraser and John Sorrell, they both enjoyed a VIP tour of the home of English cricket, Lord's - before lunch and the nets at The Oval.
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The winners and their friends spent time with Vaughan both bowling and batting - and received more than £400 worth of Skins' gradient compression tops and tights, designed to help elite athletes' bodies perform better and recover faster.
Full local cricket round-up in this week's Hampshire Chronicle.
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