Centres of cricketing excellence

Citation

(1999), "Centres of cricketing excellence", Education + Training, Vol. 41 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.1999.00441hab.010

Centres of cricketing excellence

Centres of cricketing excellence

Keywords: Higher education, Partnerships, Sport

Six higher education consortia have been named centres of cricketing excellence in a £300,000 scheme announced by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

The scheme is designed to ensure that the best young cricketers can combine higher education with opportunities to develop their sporting skills.

The centres are at Oxford, Cambridge, Loughborough, Durham and Cardiff universities and a consortium based on the University of Bradford, the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University.

The board's director of cricket, John Carr, said: "Our choice reflects the need to balance an established cricket pedigree with high-quality indoor and outdoor facilities, a full range of academic courses and admissions opportunities and the provision of excellent sports-science and medicine input".

"We believe this scheme will benefit the game as a whole by providing a larger pool of well-qualified, confident and thoughtful cricketers better prepared for the rigours of first-class and international cricket."

"It will also provide the students themselves with the best of both worlds - an excellent cricketing education plus greater security through improved post-cricket career opportunities."