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Yep very much this. One of the first team at our club has just gone to be Head of Cricket at the private school. Head of Cricket ffs. My oldest boy gets 2 hours a week of PE at comprehensive school and that’s mostly playing dodgeball.
We pay for our 2 to attend coaching weeks in the holidays and nets by a private company through the winter, but so do most of the parents of talented private school kids so you just cant catch up.
2 very talented kids at the club have been scouted at Northants by private schools and given scholarships which their parents have accepted as they know that’s the only way their kid is going to get a chance to go all the way, despite one of them finding the whole private school thing abhorrent. Don’t think I could do it.
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Plenty of rich kids playing cricket out in Surrey. The difference in general technique by the time they are 12 years old between state school and prep school kids is the scary thing, for the boys at least. Seeing some of the "Tier 1" juniors climbing into cover drives was something to behold when my 10 year old daughter ended up in a very one sided under 11's cup game a week or so back.