That Devon Malcolm of the England have become?

Graduate with honours: Mark Alleyne is past a student at the College of Haringey Cricket skipper won a trophy at Gloucestershire Photo: GETTY IMAGES SPORT

Less than a generation ago Afro-Caribbean played a significant part of English cricket, especially the pace bowling. Now their number of regular players of cricket in the County is less than a handful - and with this decline, something has disappeared from our game.

Kumar Sangakkara in his spirit of Cricket's more admirable, mentioned CMC as coaches Sri Lankan search specifically for unorthodox cricket players. It was found, out in the sticks, who had played volleyball and ran Bowl, jumped, and delivered the ball in the air. Until he was injured.

English County Cricket is well organized and well-coached - and perhaps too. No signs on the horizon of an unorthodox "great" melon which can surprise opponents, such as Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan: and if cricket Afro-Caribbean dies, another source of potential supply of England is eliminated.

Devon Malcolm, with his express pace, had this unorthodox quality. Afro-Caribbean, like him, took almost 600 wickets of Test for England and scored nearly 8,000 test runs. A fine XI could be made of those who have represented England and England A: Michael Carberry, Wilf Slack, Mark Butcher, Roland Butcher, Mark Alleyne, Paul Weekes, Keith Piper, Chris Lewis, Phillip DeFreitas, Dean Headley and Malcolm himself.

The reserve of the pace attack does would be too cheap. Norman Cowans, small Gladstone, David Lawrence, Alex Tudor and Neil Williams, who grew up in Haringey, took over 150 wickets of Test between them to England.

Haringey Cricket College, was founded in 1984 at Tottenham, has been the nursery, in the old term or Academy, as it would be now called. Not all these Afro-Caribbean players attended, but a dozen fit who played county cricket.

While most were the pace bowlers, an exception was Piper, with its exceptionally fine glovework. Footwork too: one goalkeeper, I saw that covers so much land was Mark Boucher and for the same reason. When Allan Donald cooked in steam, Warwickshire or South Africa, and its snorters - after tongue - tilted or tempered, or both, its keeper had to dive a long way.

Mark Alleyne was another product of Haringey. He became the youngest first class for Gloucestershire centurion; Master of England and play 10 a day for the England international. and leading his County to five a day in 1999 and 2000 titles.

"While I was there, the focus was on young cricket players, unemployment in the region - not specifically targeted the Afro-Caribbean, said Alleyne, who is now head coach of the CMC." It was an opportunity to have some coaches formalized, test yourself against re second counties and perhaps play professionally. »

Dealing with all questions of low self-esteem and self alienation was the work of the coach HCC, Reg Scarlett, a Jamaican who had represented Caribbean. Alleyne "Reg made you think that you have the right to be on the ground," said yesterday, while coaching for the MCC young players on the Isle of Wight.

But now, while the number of Asian in county cricket increased gradually, Afro-Caribbean have almost disappeared. If they live in the cities of the Interior, where they CANPLAY? Could someone drop some plastic bats and balls in the playing field, but who will seek their further football and major money? And where are the role models, in Britain or the Caribbean?

Thus, the reactivation of the College's Cricket of Haringey - depleted funding in 2000 - is an important initiative. The money comes from the Wilf Slack Trust, set up after the Middlesex and Blade England then collapsed to the stick and died, 34, in 1989. October, Wilf Slack trust will be fan and braises in the Centre of Selby - as Haringey CC became subsequently - with training sessions open to anyone.

A specialized Board will be unveiled, listing the names and representations of the first Class cricketers who emerged from Haringey CC. No one has kept a list at the time. History of the Afro-Caribbean, being primarily oral, is too little recorded.

But this is not an excuse for the subject being ignored and forgotten.

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