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Regent’s Park Festival – come rain or shine
After total wash-outs in May, 2006, and June, 2007, Capital Kids Cricket moved its annual Regent’s Park spectacular to July this year – and was rewarded with a day of wind, rain and occasional glimmers of sunshine!
Cricket – as far as the eye could see
 But at least we got through a full programme of matches on all six pitches, including a county game between Middlesex and Kent Under-11 girls, a challenge match between London South and London North in the Lord’s Taverners Ford Inner Cities Under-14 competition, a borough encounter between Lewisham and Greenwich Under-13 teams, several primary school matches and the main feature of the afternoon – a Capital Kids Invitation XI skippered by former Sussex captain Johnny Barclay and The Lord’s Taverners Celebrity XI, with Chris Tarrant among an all-star cast.
 And one current England test man, Essex’s Alex Tudor, joined forces with two rising stars of the county circuit, Michael Carberry of Hampshire and Scott Newman of Surrey – both opening batsmen with hotly tipped England futures – to give a master class to an army of enthusiastic wannabes.
Chris Tarrant with Michael Carberry
The day was also used to recognize the input of two generous benefactors, with plaques unveiled to The Lord’s Taverners, donors of all-weather strips and practice nets at our Regent’s Park HQ, and the late David Smyth, whose legacy has enabled Capital Kids Cricket to appoint a full-time coach to develop cricket among the state school children of Camden and Westminster. A new trophy, the David Smyth Memorial Shield, to be awarded every year to CKC’s Cricketer of the Year, was presented by Alex Tudor to Kevin Butler, of Canonbury School, Islington.
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