{"id":10192,"date":"2014-10-16T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/16\/england-stars-launch-leicester-facility\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:01:39","slug":"england-stars-launch-leicester-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/16\/england-stars-launch-leicester-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"England stars launch Leicester facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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England cricketers\u00a0James Taylor,<\/strong>\u00a0Katherine Brunt\u00a0and\u00a0Sonia Odedra\u00a0were the star guests at the unveiling of a new \u00a31 million cricket facility in Leicester yesterday which is designed to provide a major boost for recreational cricket in the city.<\/div>\n

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The trio took part in a coaching session with junior cricketers from Crown Hills Community College which has been rebuilt at a cost of \u00a321 million under the Building Schools for the Future PFI Initiative and was officially opened by the City\u2019s Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, and the ECB Chairman Giles Clarke<\/div>\n

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The project included a \u00a31 million investment by ECB and Sport England to develop a new multi-purpose sports hall offering state-of-the-art cricket facilities to students from the college, the local community and talented young cricketers from across the East Midlands.<\/div>\n

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ECB Chairman, Giles Clarke, said: \u201cThe delivery of this project has been a team effort and we would like to thank the Principal and staff at the college, Leicester City Council, Sport England and Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket for their wholehearted support.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is a fantastic facility which will be of enormous long-term benefit to the college and play a major role in engaging the wider community in cricket and serving the needs of local clubs.<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt also represents a key part of our wider plans to engage more closely with the Asian cricket community at a national level and raise the standard of cricket facilities and pitches in urban areas.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Director of Sport and Assistant Principal, Doug Keast, said: \u201cWe are extremely grateful to the England and Wales Cricket Board and Sport England for the generous support because the multi sports hall is twice the size of a facility normally provided by the Building Schools for the Future programme.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere is no doubt that the new facility is playing no small part in developing the skill level of our students resulting in the success achieved by our girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 cricket teams.<\/div>\n

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\u201cCrown Hills is proud of the fact that we are a strategic centre of excellence for cricket. This sits neatly with the Local Authority\u2019s vision of creating sporting areas of excellence from the BSF programme. We are working closely with Leicestershire and Rutland Cricket (LRC) in the development of the game and all the Leicestershire age-group squads use the facility.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe School Sport Partnership and Leicestershire and Rutland Sport also recognise our growing prominence in cricket and have used us as the site for their level 3 (County wide) cricket competition finals, all facilitated by Crown Hills students who received cricket umpire training from LRC.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Sport England\u2019s Property Director, Charles Johnston, said: \u201cWe are pleased to be partners in this high quality project which will provide a focus on cricket development for students at the college and in local clubs. This project is of strategic importance because Crown Hills Community College is the only specialist sports college\u00a0<\/div>\n

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