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More primary school children are now being taught cricket in Tower Hamlets than in any other town, village or borough in the British Isles!

Shahidul Alam helps another batch
of young hopefuls along the way

Ever since the Metropolitan Police approved a £10,000 grant to Capital Kids Cricket in a bid to inject new interest into the lives of local youngsters, a wave of cricket enthusiasm has spread through the borough like wildfire.

And an unprecedented three days had to be set aside for the regional Asda Kwik Cricket Year 6 Festival in June when every single one of the borough’s 66 primary schools applied to enter a team!

Without doubt the prime factor behind the Tower Hamlets cricket explosion has been the arrival on to the Capital Kids teaching team of Shahidul Alam, the charismatic and gifted coach to the Bangladesh Under 19 national side.