China and World Cup Cricket

There is a very interesting report in the official website of World Cup Cricket 2007 about the expansion of Cricket in China. Actually, Matthew Pryor wrote the original report in Timesonline.co.uk. I have to admit that I got shocked to know that ICC has been promoting Cricket in China so aggressively. China has the largest population in the world but Cricket has no popularity in this country. In fact, China never participated in any Cricket competition that I can remember.

China can be indeed a very big market for cricket and ICC. If just a fraction of Chinese population get interested about cricket then the game of cricket will have millions of new fans.

Matthew Pryor wrote:

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has a highly detailed ten-year development plan — The Strategy to Develop Cricket in China 2005-2015 — which reveals that Cricket Australia, the governing body in that country, provided US $650,000 (about £330,000) of coaching services in China from 2005-06.

Rumesh Ratnayake, the former Sri Lanka fast bowler, has been hired as head coach and last year an extra $400,000 in funding was announced by Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive. “As with any investment, timing is critical,” Syed Ashraful Huq, the ACC chief executive, said. “China has gone from practically no cricket activity one year ago to 51 schools in Beijing and Shanghai playing the game, with close to 6,500 participants.”

The happy side of the story is that Chinese government is supporting ICC in the expansion of cricket in China. Later this year, we have Twenty20 World Cup Tournament. I really wish that ICC could invite a Chinese team to participate in some warm up matches against some of the top countries.

Do you like this idea?

thank you thank you thank you to all of you who travelled from China, so far, to help us in Grenada and made it possible for us and everyone to enjoy world cup cricket here !!!!!- yes I do mean you with the wheel barrow with the pram wheels!!!!

Posted by: heatherandall | March 11, 2007 7:46 PM | Permalink to Comment

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