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Matches
Yorkshire Bank 40 Over Competition:
Friday 14 June 2013:
Unicorns v Somerset
Yorkshire Bank 40 Over Competition:
Wednesday 19 June 2013:
Netherlands v Notts Outlaws
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Community
The Cornish Cricket Festival is committed to helping and improving grass roots cricket in Cornwall. We have a number of areas where we are targeting help over the next 12 months and beyond with Festivals in future years. These are as follows:
Sponsorship
We provided £2000 of sponsorship to the Cornish Cricket Board from the 2012 Cornish Cricket Festival, who distributed through a variety of different ways to improve cricket in the county. This money will really help to develop grass roots cricket in the county.
Cornwall Representative Teams
We are proud to have sponsored the Cornwall Under 15 team's kit on their 2011 and 2012 tours to the West Indies (please see team photograph above) and will be doing this for the 2013 tour as well. With the Under 13’s going to South Africa and the Under 17’s to Sri Lanka, these are really important to steps to developing young players in the county.
Role Models
Organising role models to provide inspiration for our youngsters to take up the great game. With Somerset County Cricket Club being around two hours away for the majority of people in Cornwall, this leaves a lack of local role models. This is where the Cornish Cricket Festival comes into play, by bringing the big name players to Cornwall for the youngsters to see in the flesh and provide inspiration for them to take up and progress in our great game.
Progression into the Professional Game
It is only Jack Richards and Laura Harper from Cornwall in recent years who have gone on to play for the England Team. The likes of Tony Penberthy, Charlie Shreck and Carl Gazzard have gone on to play County Cricket, but we are passionate that there should be more Cornish players progressing to the professional game. We hope that with a regular Cornish Cricket Festival providing inspiration to the youngsters of today, along with our financial support to the Cornish Cricket Board, we will be doing all we can to make sure we increase the numbers taking up the game and in the long run, increasing the number of players progressing to the professional game.
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