Delighted to have had my proposal for a paper accepted by the Cricket Research Centre at the University of Huddersfield for their 2011 Conference entitled Cricket and The Community.

My presentation will be focusing on the declining number of Afro-Caribbean cricketers participating in the County Championship. However, the thrust of my argument is that the death-knell of the Afro-Caribbean cricketer is an excesive claim in view of the range of initiatives currently underway in the inner cities, at local club level and within the first class-counties. All of these have been given a further impetus by the recent selection of Michael Carberry for the the England national side.