The Ghana Cricket Association, through the Mfantseman Cricket Association, has donated equipment to the Boys and Girls Club of Ghana, Anomabo, for onward distribution to the Anomabo Circuit A and B basic schools.
The donation formed part of the decision of the Ghana Cricket Association to make the sport more attractive to pupils at the basic level, so that they would develop strong passion for the game.
An executive board member of the Ghana Cricket Association, Mr Francis Ayikai Okain who briefed The Chronicle, stated that the Association was fully committed to supporting the pupils hence the donation of the equipment.
This, he explained, would go a long way to improve the sport at the basic level of education where those with passion for cricket and would be cricketers would be properly nurtured to become national assets in the near future.
“During the training of teachers to become coaches of the game, I indicated that our decision to assist schools in the Mfantseman Municipality will not be a nine-day wonder, but a sustained one to help develop talents,” he said.
“We have cricketers from the Central Region who are currently part of the national team that has been formed and we are committed to unearthing more talents and bring them to the limelight so that they will become national cricketers,” he added
Mr Okain thanked the Ghana Cricket Association for their priceless support for the Mfantseman Cricket Association and expressed appreciation to the Boys and Girls Club of Ghana, Anomabo, for their continuous support of the sport in the municipality.
A coach, Mr Emmanuel Domie, told The Chronicle that the donated items, made up of bats, bails and balls among others, would serve as a morale booster to the pupils from the various schools, as well as teachers who took part in the training a few months ago.
He added that the zeal and the level of commitment by the pupils were indications that they were ready to give their all to the sports and learn its rudiments with passion and hoped that they would become professional cricketers.
Background
It would be recalled that the Boys and Girls Club of Ghana, Anomabo, in collaboration with Ghana Cricket Association (GCA) and the Mfantseman Cricket Association, recently held a two-day training for trainers’ workshop on crickets.
It was participated by teachers from the Kwegyir Aggrey SHS and some selected basic school teachers in the Anomabo Circuit in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region.
The non-residential programme, which was meant to strategically equip the teachers with the technical know-how of the lesser-known sport, was attended by twenty-four teachers drawn from seventeen schools in the Anomabo A&B Circuit.
The focus was to train coaches of the game, who would identify, train and develop more talents from the basic school level for the sport in the municipality and the nation at large.
The trained teachers, who now serve as coaches, have established Cricket Teams in their respective schools and imbibed the pupils with the requisite understanding of the game.
