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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Ramprakash

I made my way in cricket but it is clear that was against the odds

Harrow schoolboys look on from the team balcony before the game against Eton at Lord’s in May
Harrow schoolboys look on from the team balcony before the game against Eton at Lord’s in May. Mark Ramprakash is director of cricket at Harrow. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

The ICEC report that was published on Tuesday will hopefully come to be seen as a landmark in the development of a more equal game. Reading it, my response was informed by memories of my own path into cricket, my mixed heritage and the position I now find myself in as president of a first-class county and director of cricket at a leading private school.

I have lived in and around Harrow my whole life. My mum is a white woman from East Ham, from a very modest background. My father’s ancestors were from India, but he arrived in England from Guyana in 1960.

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