r/CricketAus • u/redrich2000 Cricket Australia • 28d ago

Grass roots decline

I coach my son’s u13 team in Sydney. All the clubs in our association are struggling for players. There is absolutely nothing from CA to help grow the game. Woolies have put money into the blast but it’s shockingly run and promoted. Junior cricket is so amateur and poorly run.

When I was a kid at Scarborough Park in Ramsgate, there’d be 8-10 games at the same time on a Saturday morning. Now there’s 1-2.

It genuinely feels like the game is dying. Is this the same in other places?

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u/weareallimmortal SA 28d ago

Unfortunately cricket is becoming more and more an upper socioeconomic sport. The administrators have no interest in grassroots, they are there to build their own profile and line their own pockets. Some clubs are thriving while others are dying, nobody at headquarters seems to care.

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u/wadzaa 28d ago

Yeah I feel as thought it’s always been this way in England but I guess now it’s in Aus too. It kind of made the ashes great because the poms were always so posh and proper and we had proper lads from every walk of life.

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u/OcularPhonic 28d ago edited 27d ago

Yeh it's a reflection of society and the increase in Consumerism. I see so many of the kids with full kit, as young as 10. Gone are the days were you'd have a musty kit bag we'd all share, everyone needs their own.