WORCESTER'S Royal Grammar School is hopeful of breeding several 'second generation' county cricketers.

A host of sons and relatives of past and present Worcestershire county cricketers are beginning to make their mark in the school's teams.

They include Miles and Tom Illingworth, sons of former County star Richard (now with Derbyshire), and Nathan Newport, son of ex-County paceman Phil, who is now a master at the school.

Skipper Graeme Hick's son Jordan and former opening batsman Tim Curtis' son Andrew are pupils at the Grange School, which feeds into the RGS.

The links go back even further - Daniel Jackson, who plays in the same U14 team as Miles Illingworth, is the grandson of Don Kenyon, the first man to lead Worcester-shire to the County Championship title in 1964.

Miles scored a century for the U14s in a convincing victory over The Leys High School, Redditch recently, making 120 in a total of 276 and then bowling out their opponents for just seven!

Newport, meanwhile, hit 105no for the U12s against Oldswinford School to go one up on his father, who never scored a century in 18 years with the County despite hitting several 50s.

Tim Curtis, who teaches at the school, said: "I remember Neal Radford had a photo taken for his benefit brochure a few years ago of all the players with their sons.

"It is quite unusual that the team then seemed to have a lot of sons rather than daughters, and most, if not all, of them have turned out to be pretty keen cricketers."

Perhaps the most notable son of a famous father to be produced by RGS in recent years is Dean Headley, son of former County batsman Ron, who went on to star as a bowler for Kent and England before having to retire from the game through injury.