ECB announces initiative to train coaches and boost participation in secondary school cricket

Secondary school teachers will be trained to become cricket coaches under plans unveiled by the ECB to revitalize levels of sport participation in state sector education.

The initiative was announced at Lord’s on Wednesday as part of an update to the ECB’s Inspiring Generations strategy, following the late-breaking Separate Commission for Fairness in Cricket (ICEC) document.

While more than 93% of young Britons have experience in the environmental sector, the ICEC paper found that private students were 13 times more likely to play professional cricket, and that 58% of the England men’s team in 2021 had attended payment powers.

After several years dedicated to re-establishing links with primary education, mainly during the Anticipation to Glimmer treasury, which has introduced more than 7 million children to cricket since it was introduced in 2005, the ECB now aims to support the provision of cricket. in 500 secondary environmental education colleges by 2030, with up to £26 million earmarked for the development of environmental services in 16 cities and towns.

The ECB also plans to boost that link with primary school by offering separate cricket for 3.5 million students over the next six years, when further measures will be taken to restructure the cricket skills pathway to improve the flow of public-school players to county age group programs.

The tactical list is intended to protect the development of plans until the end of 2028, which includes the ECB hosting the Women’s International Cup in 2026, as well as the design of the men’s and women’s home Ashes in 2027, and the return of the game. to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.

“Today’s announcements are the roadmap for where we will take cricket over the next four years,” said Richard Gould, a well-known ECB government official. “The execution of our strategy and positive change in sport is the responsibility of all of us, led by the ECB to establish how this change will happen.”

“The first version of Inspiring Generations [published in 2019] had inclusion at the center,” Connor said. “We were always on the path toward closing the gender gap and other equity gaps in the game, but I think the [ICEC] The report has enhanced that work and has illuminated the entire game like a mirror.

“It has united everyone behind that noticeable, and it has been fantastic to be able to reflect that movement in a moment. We have fulfilled about 60% of the suggestions later, and we are encouraged by one of the important things we have been able to change in Temporarily reality has not always been easy or imaginable, but the ICEC document and the scrutiny across cricket has galvanized the sport.

“Due to the unused [women’s] construction, there will also be more opportunities in the skills pipeline, so it’s about determining how that pool can be as large as possible,” Connor added. “We don’t know how long it will take us to get to absolute parity in government, and It is almost certain that it will not be in the years that the ICEC requests. But we are sure that level of remuneration makes cricket too attractive a proposition for a female athlete. “Then it’s about ensuring that she can have the opportunity to access that level of government.”

ECB officials meet Sports Minister Lisa Nandy in Barnsley next week, and remain hopeful that the prospect of the women’s World Cup in particular will encourage the government to push ahead with that investment, which had been aimed at select charities like Chance. to Shine, Lord’s Taverners and ACE.

“There are so many things we won’t be able to do at the level we could have pursued if we don’t get the money,” Connor added. “We look forward to developing the greater affinity for cricket with the unused executive and seeing where we go, certainly in the spring.”