End of county cricket age groups is another blow for grassroots sport | Barney Ronay

The genuine grassroots, casual, amateur sport, has been terribly neglected – all professional sports should fight this decline

This is a column about children’s sport, the commodification of play and the exclusion of some sections of the population from structures that allow it to take place.

A bit further down the page it contains exclusively sourced information about some informal advice being offered by the England and Wales Cricket Board to counties about the continued existence of junior age group teams.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2PztzHX