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KEY RESEARCH FINDINGS

The difference between British South Asian representation across recreational and professional cricket is astonishing. 30% of recreational cricketers in England & Wales are of British South Asian heritage. In fact, in elite talent pathways from U10 even up to U19, BSA players are actually over-represented. 

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This figure then drops to just 5% across professional men's cricket, making British South Asian males become a significantly under-represented group in professional cricket...but why?

KEY STATISTICS

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4%

British South Asian Coaches (Academy Director or above) in England & Wales

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< 5%

British South Asian representation in male professional cricket

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3x 

Number of times White British players are more likely to convert to professional status that BSA players

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~ 34x

Number of times white privately educated players are more likely to play professional cricket than British South Asian state-educated players

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62%

Contracted players who are released before the age of 25

(Warwickshire CCC case study)

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89%

Regions in England whereby BSA players experience a reverse effect in representation from talent pathway to professional level. 

THE WHY - THEORETICAL OVERIEW

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Researchers who have analysed the racial demographic of cricket in England and Wales, such as Burdsey 2011, Fletcher 2010-2020 & Hylton 2008-2020, have all reached the same conclusion; that an exposition of manifestations of racial microaggressions, the effects of a colour-blind ideology and blatant white hegemonic dominance within English men’s first-class cricket, are examples which highlight that the struggle for racial inequality is far from over.

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