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Diversity in cricket

June 2023

  • The annual Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord’s, June 2022.

    A level playing field for cricket is a long way off

    Letters: Unless inner-city state schools are given funding, cricket will stay out of reach for many children, says Laura Matthews. Plus letters from Mike Stein, Hugh Southey, Michael Pyke, John Saxbee, Peter Hutchinson and Mike Sheaff

March 2022

  • Umar Razaq

    Asian cricketer was ‘silenced’ for criticising club’s blackface party

  • Azeem Rafiq pictured in January.

    ‘They don’t get it’: Azeem Rafiq accuses counties of dragging feet on diversity

November 2021

  • The ECB chief executive Tom Harrison.

    Majority of counties are failing to meet agreed ECB targets on diversity

    A survey of county board membership undertaken by the Guardian has found the majority have failed to meet gender representation targets

October 2021

  • Indigenous media personality Shelley Ware says decision-makers need to commit to putting people of different backgrounds on the screen.

    Australian sports media: ‘There’s this pigeonholing of Indigenous voices’

    For broadcasters Shelley Ware and Rana Hussain, women and people from diverse backgrounds are underrepresented

September 2021

  • Gladstone Small Played 17 Tests and 53 ODIs. Born in Barbados and moved to England aged 14.

    Portraits of England’s black cricketers – in pictures

  • Former England international cricketers Ebony Rainford-Brent, David Lawrence, Mark Butcher

    ‘I’m a cricketer, what makes me different?’ England’s black players on racism and exclusion

December 2020

  • Illustration via Wisden Cricket Monthly.

    Guardian Sport Network
    English cricket has a diversity problem among its coaches

    There are only a handful of black or Asian coaches, and barely any women, at the elite level. What can be done?

September 2017

  • Image from Second Innings documentary

    The Guardian documentary
    Second Innings: how cricket is helping three Afghan boys build a new life in London

    Tucked away in suburban London, cricket matches take place every week for young and often traumatised refugees and asylum seekers

July 2017

  • Cricket for beginners: answering the questions you were afraid to ask – video

  • Have you heard of Tape Ball cricket? – video

June 2017

  • Amna Rafiq: the woman on mission for women's cricket – video

    Growing up Amna Rafiq had no other option but to play for the local boys team, Barnsley CC. Unable to continue playing with the boys for religious and cultural reasons, at secondary school Amna created her own girls team and started in train a mission that continues to today, to give cricket opportunities to all
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