ECB gets coaching house in order
Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian , says the ECB is getting things right by investing heavily in coaches at the game's grassroots in England with 33,000 coaches graduating from the board's Coach Education Programme since it was started four
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian, says the ECB is getting things right by investing heavily in coaches at the game's grassroots in England with 33,000 coaches graduating from the board's Coach Education Programme since it was started four years ago.
Things are, I am told, starting to change. The realisation is there now that the investment has to be at the most formative stages and this goes not just for players who might have been identified as potential elite cricketers but for those who wish to play cricket recreationally for the sake of the game. To this end one of the most heartening pieces of news to come from the ECB recently was that 33,000 coaches have graduated from the ECB Coach Education Programme, which is run in conjunction with Sky Sports, since the scheme was launched four years ago. That, as they point out, is enough to fill Lord's. No fewer than 10,000 of these have qualified in the past year alone.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo