Cricket clubs hoping youngsters will be bowled over by All Stars
Cricket clubs across Staffordshire are gearing up to give youngsters their first experience of the game.
All Stars Cricket is the England and Wales Cricket Board’s first nationwide entry-level participation programme for cricket, with the aim of getting 50,000 boys and girls into action.
In Staffordshire, 75 clubs have registered to be All Stars Centres and will deliver the programme this month and throughout the summer, giving five to eight year olds their first experience of the game.
Parents can now register their children via allstarscricket.co.uk and after signing-up the kids will receive a cricket ‘back pack’ delivered to their door with a bat, ball, cap, water bottle and personalised T-shirt – in fact everything they’ll need for the eight-week programme.
Staffordshire Cricket’s Kevin Herbert said: “The county boards have been working with ECB for some time on All Stars Cricket and we’re really excited now that we’re about to start running the sessions.
“The local club centre ‘Activators’ have received their training to help them deliver fun and safe sessions. There’s a real buzz about the new programme.”
The emphasis of the sessions, which have been designed with input from England’s director of cricket Andrew Strauss and the England performance team, will be learning how to play the game in a fun, safe and inclusive environment and providing the children with the basic skills they need to develop a lifelong love of cricket.
Among the clubs who will be delivering All Stars Cricket are Aldridge, Alrewas, Beacon, Bloxwich, Brewood, Bronze, Burntwood, St Matthews, C&R Hawks, Cannock, Codsall, Coseley, Elford, Enville, Fordhouses, Hammerwich, Himley, Lichfield, Old Hill, Old Wulfrunians, Pelsall, Penkridge, Penn, Rugeley, Smethwick, Springhill, Springvale, Streetly, Swindon, Tamworth, Walsall, West Bromwich Dartmouth, Whittington, Wightwick and Finchfield, Wilnecote, and Wombourne.
