Overseas tour a boost for community cricket

by ALI AHMED SAYED

A FORTUITOUS reading of a Cape Town newspaper has led to a dream-come-true tour for a community-based cricket club.

The youth team of the Fish Rite Hanover Park Cricket Club will be touring England and spending some time with its patron, star cricketer, Moeen Ali.

The initiative was kick-started when John Barclay, of Arundel Castle Cricket Association, stumbled across an article in a local Cape Town newspaper about the junior cricketers’ dreams of playing cricket in England.

Soon after, Western Province Cricket Association and Islamic Relief pledged their support and the young cricketers’ dreams were one step closer to fruition.

After months of hard work, administration and fundraising (they still need more money) the tour was officially launched in the suites of the Western Province Cricket Association, at Newlands Cricket Stadium, where club chairperson Ashraf Allie announced that 14 of the Fish Rite Hanover Park Cricket Club youth players will depart for England on August 1, 2019.