MULTI-SPORTS
Cricket seems to be stabilising in the city. We know we have a shortage in the city area of three pitches at peak times. This should fill one of those gaps
” Nature had engulfed the ground and pavilion
sportsground with the college, which has taken responsibility for the site under a sub- lease.
With such strong links with the Cinderella Sports Ground, Worcestershire Cricket had been actively involved in the project for several years, helping secure a £35,000 grant from the England and Wales Cricket Board towards the total project cost of £365,000. “Cricket seems to be stabilising in the
city,” said Worcestershire Cricket Development Director Tom Hill when project-go-ahead was announced. “We know we have a shortage in the city area of three pitches at peak times. This should fill one of those gaps.”
Stripping the topsoil
Once a cricket club goes, generally the site tends to go. A new lease of life and new energy on the site will create more opportunities for more people
” Dismantling the old pavilion 74 PC October/November 2019
Bringing the Cinderella ground back to life was “a great opportunity to get a new cricket pitch back in the middle of the city and those opportunities don’t come up very often nationally, let alone in the county.” ”Once a cricket club goes, generally the site tends to go,” he added. “A new lease of life and new energy on the site will create
more opportunities for more people.” Worcestershire Cricket is using the Cinderella ground for some of its junior games in the county age group and district programme, and is eyeing opportunities to involve its 104 affiliated clubs in the county and in Dudley. Worcester Dominies and Guild Cricket Club have returned to the site in a groundshare with St Johns Colts Cricket Club, for example, after outgrowing their existing home.
Now ready for action after two years of preparing the square, the ground is the new home of Rushwick Cricket Club, whose thirds side faced Barnards Green thirds in its first fixture in May. College students are to play here too, as are other local sports clubs and interested organisations. “Cricket was the driver for the project,” says Richard Savory, managing director of Raise Partnership, the consultancy that worked with the city council and stakeholders to project manage the scheme. What has arisen from the wilderness is a
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