Bakers Mini Cricket is the core of our development programme: A few years ago at a meeting of primary schools it was resolved that we move away from the previous format of “Bakers Mini Cricket Centres” to a schools based programme, as it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the numbers and the continuity of the centres. Schools pledged their full support to the programme and agreed to make educators available to coach learners and administer an inter-house league.
Whilst we were able to increase the numbers playing Bakers Mini Cricket we found that the standards dropped as some schools did not honour their initial commitment to make this programme work for us.
As a result, to save the programme we were forced to re-introduce our Bakers Mini Cricket Centres in order to address the deteriorating standards. We currently have three Bakers Mini Cricket Centres within our sub-union. They are Umkomaas, Park Rynie, and Umzinto. Regular matches are played between these centers.
Whilst we were able to increase the numbers playing Bakers Mini Cricket we found that the standards dropped as some schools did not honour their initial commitment to make this programme work for us.
As a result, to save the programme we were forced to re-introduce our Bakers Mini Cricket Centres in order to address the deteriorating standards. We currently have three Bakers Mini Cricket Centres within our sub-union. They are Umkomaas, Park Rynie, and Umzinto. Regular matches are played between these centers.
We hosted our Annual Bakers Mini Cricket Festival on Saturday, 23rd May 2009. The festival was a great success with approximately 180 girls and boys from Umkomaas, Park Rynie, Sezela, Pennington, Umzinto, Braemar and Mtwalume attending the festival. The festival assists us in recruiting youngsters to our Bakers Mini Cricket Centres in Umkomaas, Park Rynie and Umzinto. The Bakers programme is run at our centres on Saturday mornings throughout the year.
