Inner-city cricket
Inner-city cricket: no space left to play – video
Cricket is a game associated with leafy pastures but those spaces are at a premium - nowhere more so than in London. Cricket clubs and the people who run them are having to make the best of bad situation – whether it’s ferrying youth players across the city, playing every game on the road and coaching kids without the right facilities. In this episode we meet a handful of dedicated individuals keeping the life blood of inner-city cricket in the south of England flowing
Inner-city cricket: is ethnic minority talent being missed?
30% of recreational cricketers in the UK are from South Asian backgrounds, but that group is represented by just 4% of professionals. Is enough being done to realise BAME potential in the game in the UK? We meet the enthusiasts of Perry Hall Park, home to the Birmingham Cricket League; and go to Handsworth CC, an Afro-Caribbean club formed in the late 60s, where a new generation of players from South Asian background are keeping the game alive