Ashraful is promoting cricket among British Bangladeshi kids in London

Miraz · #1 September 13, 2008, 06:31 AM

Mohammad Ashraful is visiting different primary and secondary schools in Bengali dominated Tower Hamlets borough to promote cricket among expatriot Bangladeshi kids. He volutarily agreed to work as an ambassador of a cricket chariry "Capital Kids Cricket" during his holiday in London . He is counselling parents and encouraging school children to take up cricket as their major sport. He has so far visited 7 state schools in the brorough and met thousands of kids. It is a major boost for the Bangaldeshi community and they thanked Mohammad Ashraful and Capital Kids Cricket for this novel initiative in a program organized at St. Peters College in Whitechapel on Friday.

Capital Kids Cricket promotes cricket among different ethnic groups and have achieved tremendous success among British Pakistani and Indian communities. Ravi Bopara who is now playing for England is one of their major success stories and a good number of their recruits are playing county cricket. This is the first time Capital Kids have taken an extensive program for the expatriot Bangladeshi kids. They have appointed Shahidul Alam Ratan, former Bangladesh U-19 and Malayasia national coach, as the head coach and also appointed 6 other coaches with different level certificates to run the program.

bujhee kom · #2 September 13, 2008, 07:04 AM

wow! this is really great! ash tends to do a lot of things for the kids, i really like it! kids,

Zeeshan · #3 September 13, 2008, 08:22 AM

Captain kids cricket....sounds more like a cereal company

Miraz · #4 September 13, 2008, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gopal Bhar
Captain kids cricket....sounds more like a cereal company

It's Capital kids cricket.

thebest · #5 September 13, 2008, 09:07 AM

At last Ash is doing something credible. I salute him for this effort.

One World · #6 September 13, 2008, 09:09 AM

Seven coaches with Ratan as head. Massive approach indeed. But I hope we do not create only Bopara, also some Naser and Panesar as well.

Zeeshan · #7 September 13, 2008, 09:29 AM

sorry miraz bhai...it was 6:00am almost when i posted in this thread....eyez still groggy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miraz
It's Capital kids cricket.

BANFAN · #8 September 13, 2008, 02:38 PM

Very Noble involvement of Ash. Will BD benefit from it or all English benefits?

zainab · #9 September 14, 2008, 12:47 AM

In spite of Ash's woes in cricket, he is still a much sought after person, for he has that aura of excitement and charm. He himself started playing as a kid, so he knows what this means to a kid. Of course, he had to do net ball retrieving duties for a club, before he was given a break. The cricketing world will always refer to him as the youngest test player to score a century on debut. It took 40 yrs to break this record, also held by a Pakistani player, and i am sure that Ash will hold this record for a long time, because I dont think that a country will choose a 17 yr old to play Test cricket. Further more, ask anyone in any country to name a Bangladeshi player and the name Ashraful is said.

CholCholBD · #10 September 14, 2008, 01:01 AM

i think its very important work he is doing. he is the captain of an international side whose had people worldwide. Very many of us in this forum are from outside the country, sitting at wee hours of the night watching these matches, reading about the team, sharing our opinions...where is all this passion going to be in the future gen? who is going to be carrying our legacy in UK, USA, canada? the future needs to be inspired to see what we see, otherwise its going to be dead.