“If you are in the average boardroom, what you see are older people".
The young person’s voice is missing,” says Dal Babu, Middlesex’s designated safeguarding lead, who is heading up the establishment of a young person’s panel, the first of its kind in county cricket, to bring a more youthful perspective to their board.
Working closely with clubs across their 17 London boroughs, Middlesex have recruited a wide-ranging group of youngsters aged 14 to 19, two of whom will eventually be invited to join the board as trustees.
“We want to put a seed in the minds of younger people, to show we do tak...