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This Heath price hike is just not cricket

THIS summer’s Ashes success didn’t just help us armchair types suss out our full toss from our wrist spin.
Fortunately for the sport, it also gave youngsters whose usual diet is football and more football, a chance to catch on to the game.
That much was clear when they turned out in their droves to join Camden Sports Development’s new children’s teams at Regent’s Park and try coaching sessions at Wray Crescent Cricket Club in Holloway. So how disappointing was it to see the powers that be on Hampstead Heath agree to hike up their season ticket prices for a junior cricket pitch by a massive £90 this week? By April 2007 that amount will have gone up to £324 – £144 more than it cost this summer.
Might not seem much compared to the cost of keeping sports facilities going.
But it seems a shame when new federations are being set up to encourage schools to engage in sport and playing fields are becoming a distant memory.
And as one of the Corporation of London’s own Heath management committee member mused as his peers nodded the rise through at the Guildhall on Monday, it is surely “ridiculous” to raise the price when “we are trying to encourage young people into the game”.

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This Heath price hike is just not cricket

THIS summer’s Ashes success didn’t just help us armchair types suss out our full toss from our wrist spin.
FULL STORY

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