• Thursday, March 28, 2024

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ECB kicks off South Asian Action Plan with scholarship project

By: Sarwar Alam

Aspiring young South Asian cricketers have the chance to sharpen their talent after the ECB tied up with the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation to run a pilot cricket scholarship project next year. The foundation offers young people from disadvantaged and vulnerable backgrounds bursaries in state and independent boarding schools. Four young Asian cricketers from urban areas with schools that have a strong cricketing offer will be chosen under this plan. ECB non-executive director Lord Kamlesh Patel said: “When we launched the Action Plan three weeks ago we knew that we would be judged on our actions rather than words.…

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