🗣️ “The hardest challenge is getting them down for the first time because they just don’t think cricket’s for them."
🎥🏏 Former Corrie icon Colson Smith is documenting his mission to bring women's cricket to his beloved local club in Castleford.
thecricketpaper.com/colsons-…
Great to welcome ex pupil and actor @colsonsmith to Castleford today as he helps launch an exciting new women & girls community cricket team 🏏
🎉Today 6:00–7:00pm, Savile Park
Get yourself down there — there’s cricket, community spirit… & you might even bag a free ice cream🍦
Different #bbcpn this week . @BBCLeeds presenter Colson Smith has been speaking to people in his home town of Castleford and put their concerns to local MP @YvetteCooperMP .. more BBC 1 from 10am
This week I sat down with Foreign Secretary and Castleford MP @YvetteCooperMP to talk all things Cas, we even squeezed in a bit of cricket and the all-important best chippy debate.
On Politics North, today at 10am on BBC One & BBC iPlayer.
Colson Smith spent the morning at Headingley for a batting masterclass with Harry Brook.
Oh, and he had the small matter of Adil Rashid joining to do the bowling too...
Best of luck, @colsonsmith! 🏏