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ARE GRASSROOTS BEING STRANGLED BY RED TAPE?

by
The Cricket Paper Team
8 March 2019

Dan Whiting questions the increasing financial demands on clubs to offer coaching and league competition when participation levels are dropping

Regular readers of The Cricket Paper will know that a number of columns that I have written recently are about the struggles of club cricket.
A recent survey in a major monthly cricket magazine showed that there were 428,000 people registered to leagues in 2009. By 2016, this had dropped to 278,000 – figures that if they were published by a City analyst would have shareholders reaching for the phones, screaming: “Sell!”
A drop o...