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The Lancashire Cricket Board’s Disabilities Development Plan is overseen by Bobby Denning, CDM for Greater Manchester who takes a lead role on Disabilities Cricket. Bobby is also the ECB Head Disabilities Coach and currently works with the England Moderate Learning Difficulties Squad. As one of only a few tutors of the ECB Working with Cricketers with a Disability module, he is currently supporting ECB in coach education issues around this specialist subject.
LCB's disability activities come under the LCB's Lancashire Disabilities Cricket Development Group, chaired by Bobby Denning. It is through this group that all aspects of the County Disabilities Plan are reported, from local schools coaching programmes, the Chance to Shine Disabilities Programme, club development, coach education and the County Hardball and Softball squad. Matters relating to the International Disability Teams, England MLD Squad, England Deaf Squad, England Blind Squad, British Association for Cricketers with Disabilities (BACD) Regional Physical Disabilities Tournaments are also reported at this group.
Lancashire Cricket Board works closely alongside the ECB National Disability Cricket Manager, Ian Martin.
The Lancashire County Hardball side has over the years, been very successful in winning the BACD County Championship and it is hoped that the silverware will return to Old Trafford in 2009 (which would be for the 7th time in 11 years) along with success for the Softball squad.
Bobby Denning commented: “2009 is an exciting year for Disabilities Cricket in the County. We are proud to be one of the Counties at the forefront of the disabilities game. We have very clear plans for what we want to achieve through the Lancashire Disabilities Cricket Development Group, all of which will impact on the grassroots disabilities game and at the elite end within the County. The Chance to Shine disabilities programme furthermore demonstrates our commitment to the game and we hope to see this impacting greatly on our already established disability clubs.”
Keep up-to-date with latest developments in cricket for disabled people, by clicking on individual news articles on the right hand side.
If you have any specific questions on cricket for disabled people then contact Bobby Denning (Cricket Development Manager); Tel: 07764 922840; E-Mail: bdenning@lccc.co.uk.
Related Links
LCB Disabilities Development Plan 2008-09 (68 Kb)
LCB County Disability Squads - players' code of conduct (51 Kb)
