Hampshire Cricket Offer New Coaching Opportunities For Inner City Cricketers

We are delighted to partner with Cantell School. This has been created to ensure that young players identified through the programme gain access to high level individual coaching sessions run by Elite Level 4 professional coaches.

For many reasons, many of these players would not filter into our current pathway systems so this programme has been created to ensure an equal opportunity for those who may be disadvantaged from gaining normal access to cricket coaching and County pathways.

Charlie Freeston, Hampshire Cricket Head of Player Development

This is an exciting new initiative that links the professional game in Hampshire with the excellent work done through the Wicketz programme setup by the Lord’s Taverners and the Hampshire Cricket Board. The aim is to reach a broader pool of players and to give them entry and opportunity to the professional game.

Giles White, Director of Cricket

We’re really passionate about this programme, it opens elite level instruction to a more diverse audience and to young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to access such coaching. What Hampshire are offering with this Inner City State School Partnership needs to be copied up and down the country.

Harry Kutty, Cantell School Headteacher