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Some fine ideas about promoting county cricket. Maybe we also need to look at those that follow a first class county, but do so from a distance. I'm an Essex fan but live around 70 miles away from Chelmsford on the Suffolk coast. You Tube coverage has been a godsend. There must be many others also in this position, and countless school children - engaging those children and making them, and those that for whatever reason find it hard to get to county games, feel part of their nearest/local county is a challenge often overlooked.
Ref younger/diverse 'voices': Ten years ago I was asked by Kevan James to help out with the BBC's new ball-by-ball commentaries on Hampshire's games and I've done it ever since - voluntarily. When I started I was one of four Hospital Broadcast 'extras' who helped out and we were all white, male, retired etc. I'm the only one left but there are now 3/4 young women including Emily Windsor who began some years ago, who all still play, a Black club cricketer from Zimbabwe now in England and a member of Hampshire Disabled team. I also have a very recent graduate writing pieces every year for Hampshire's Handbook. Change is perfectly possible and since this will probably be my last active year it might even increase at Hampshire.
Some fine ideas about promoting county cricket. Maybe we also need to look at those that follow a first class county, but do so from a distance. I'm an Essex fan but live around 70 miles away from Chelmsford on the Suffolk coast. You Tube coverage has been a godsend. There must be many others also in this position, and countless school children - engaging those children and making them, and those that for whatever reason find it hard to get to county games, feel part of their nearest/local county is a challenge often overlooked.
Ref younger/diverse 'voices': Ten years ago I was asked by Kevan James to help out with the BBC's new ball-by-ball commentaries on Hampshire's games and I've done it ever since - voluntarily. When I started I was one of four Hospital Broadcast 'extras' who helped out and we were all white, male, retired etc. I'm the only one left but there are now 3/4 young women including Emily Windsor who began some years ago, who all still play, a Black club cricketer from Zimbabwe now in England and a member of Hampshire Disabled team. I also have a very recent graduate writing pieces every year for Hampshire's Handbook. Change is perfectly possible and since this will probably be my last active year it might even increase at Hampshire.