Attempt to make sport more inclusive must be embraced but it is hard not to question what role divisive politics has played
I welcome the conclusions and recommendations of the digital, culture, media and sport committee as well as the clear and succinct language used in its report. It is not a long document, but it suggests the committee means business. I think everyone within cricket, hopefully of whatever race or background, will embrace it as an attempt to make the sport more equal and inclusive.
The England and Wales Cricket Board is instructed to create a “set of key indicators by which they might measure their progress”. These are yet to be defined – last November the ECB published a 12-point action plan to address diversity in the sport, but the wording of the report suggests the committee expects a new list. What these indicators will be, and how the sport’s administrators choose to measure and recognise progress in this area, will determine whether the committee’s work has been successful.
