Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons am 2:30 pm ar 8 Mehefin 2009.
Gerry Sutcliffe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Sport)
2:30,
8 Mehefin 2009
I share the hon. Gentleman's concern. I had the misfortune to be at Lord's on Friday to see England being beaten by Holland. Thankfully, England managed to rectify the situation against Pakistan yesterday. I think that the hon. Gentleman is right, and what we are trying to do with the investment—cricket gets the biggest investment of Sport England money—is to ensure that we have the best coaches and the best opportunities, particularly for school children. We are trying to get school children and the clubs together to ensure that that coaching continues. The way in which that coaching is provided is surely a matter for the England and Wales Cricket Board and not for the Government.
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Michael Bourne
Posted on 16 Gor 2009 10:53 pm (Report this annotation)
" .... We are trying to get school children and the clubs together to ensure that that coaching continues"? Why? Why do you want coaching to continue? You should be concentrating on getting children into the clubs so that they can play properly organised games of cricket. But to do this there are many factors to consider - factors that ministers and many politicians never raise, probably because they have no idea of the structure of recreational cricket at club level.
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