Cuestars under-16 players shine in Home Internationals

FIVE of the eight players in the two England Under-16 teams at the Home Internationals in Leeds are Cuestars members.

That is a remarkably statistic and it says a lot about the Cuestars programme plus the hard work and dedication of our young players.

Three of them made up the majority of the England A team that won the 2025 title at the Northern Snooker Centre.

William Hurley (Rayleigh), William Thomson (Chandler’s Ford) and Adam Abbas (Brighton) – along with Nicholas Ayers from the Midlands – beat the England B side 7-2 in the final.

The lads dropped only four frames out of 36 in the round-robin group stages against Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland B and Wales B before beating Republic of Ireland A 7-1 in the last-four.

The B team included two more Cuestars players, Zain Jeraj (Tooting) and Matthew Jameson (Brighton). They won their round-robin group, drawing with Republic of Ireland A and beating Wales A and Scotland, before defeating Northern Ireland 7-5 in the semis.

Pictured are both of the England U16 teams. William Hurley is second from the left, then Zain Jeraj, William Thomson and Adam Abbas, Matthew Jameson is second from the right.