There are fears a fall in the number of kids playing cricket for the first time could lead to a 'missing generation' of batters, bowlers and fielders.
Cricket Australia is worried a pandemic-induced dive in the number of first-time cricketers could lead to a "missing generation" of kids taking up the sport around the nation.Cricket Australia is concerned by a 10pc drop in first-time participants for the 2021-22 seasonTasmania has bucked the trend, with numbers growing 40 per cent on pre-COVID levels
"It's absolutely something that is a worry for us," James Allsop, who heads up the community arm of Cricket Australia, said. A year of new, young cricketers has been lost, according to Allsop, and cricketing authorities are desperate to ensure it does not happen again for fear of losing a generation of budding batters, bowlers and fielders."But we might have lost some kids as six-year-olds but we can get them back as a seven-year-old."
Ninety per cent of participants play for the first time before the age of 12, according to the data, and, last year, 70 per cent started before the age of nine.
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