South Asian representation among Australian men’s contracted players has gone backwards in the first year since Cricket Australia unveiled a plan to bring more of the nation’s fastest growing migrant community into the game at all levels.– that well-meaning inclusion efforts over the past decade have not achieved the desired results – has been backed up by the demography of national and state men’s contracts finalised this month.
One of the common considerations for marginal contracting decisions centres around the likelihood of a player to be poached by the football codes, particularly the AFL. But for south Asian families, players of a similar age are far more likely to give up cricket to pursue academia and career unless opportunities are provided at the right time.
At local levels, particularly in areas like the western suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, huge south Asian populations have, in many cases, become the lifeblood of local junior and community teams, without much sense of a parallel change at the top levels. “And the society in the west is pretty good, the south Asian community are always helping me in my cricket journey. I’ve played at different levels of cricket, reps, Victoria, and I’m looking forward to wearing the baggy green in the future too.”That optimism is shared by Reeve’s mother, Ruby, who migrated to Australia more than 20 years ago and has herself become a committed volunteer administrator in community cricket.
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