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NEWS: An Historic Meeting in Regent’s Park
June 24, 2007
Although a wonderful programme of matches for boys and girls of all ages was ruined by incessant rain for the second year running, the 2007 Capital Kids Cricket Festival of Cricket in Regent’s Park at least produced an historic encounter.
Ravi Bopara, Alex Tudor and James Foster
(back row, l to r) with some of the rain-soaked
but enthusiastic kids in Regent’s Park.
One England World Cup star and two England test cricketers cheerfully got soaked for two hours to instruct at least sixty youngsters in a master class.
And it was the first time that current youngsters in the Capital Kids training programme had the chance to meet their most famous “old boy.”
Ravi Bopara was a nine-year-old pupil of Central Primary School, Newham, East London, when Capital Kids’ then chief coach, John Smith, moved in to help the school get a team together to play in a tournament for a Lord’s Taverners trophy.
And when the surprise star of England’s World Cup team, which narrowly failed to make the semi finals in the West Indies, joined forces with Essex and England men, Alex Tudor and James Foster, to lead the youngsters in a noisily enthusiastic training session, it was Alex
who told them where their potential future lay.
“Ten years ago Ravi was just like you lot – a young London lad who wanted to learn
how to play cricket,” he said. “Capital Kids got him started and some of you might be
following in his footsteps one day.”
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