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Cricket-loving young people in the Old Hill area of Rowley Regis have been given a £2,000 grant boost – to encourage more to take up the ever-increasingly popular sport. Sandwell Council’s Town Grants team has awarded the junior section of Old Hill Cricket Club a grant to provide more equipment […]

BT and Indian Institute of Science kick off new phase of UK-India research collaboration

Image caption: Professor Tim Whitley, BT’s MD of Research, joins Professor Anurag Kumar, Director, IISc & Professor B. Gurumoorthy, Chief Executive, Society for Innovation and Development (SID), at the opening of the BT India Research Centre.  BT and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), one of India’s leading research institutions, today kicked off a new phase of […]

UK Cricketers from Wealthy Backgrounds ‘Significantly Overrepresented’ in the Professional Game

White-British cricketers who were privately educated are ‘significantly overrepresented’ at both the professional and youth levels of the game, new UK research has revealed.   The study from Birmingham City University (UK) showed that people from wealthier backgrounds were much more likely to make it into professional cricket than those from […]