DHAKA, June 7, 2019 (BSS)-Players from the Bangladesh cricket team hosted a Coaching Clinic with some children from Hague Primary School, Bethnal Green at The Kia Oval on June 4 before their ICC Cricket World Cup match against New Zealand.
Players included Shakib Al Hasan, Mehedi Hasan, Abu Jayed, Liton Das and the team’s fielding consultant Ryan Cook, a press release from UNICEF said.
They hosted a questions and answers session with the children and spent time at a Coaching Clinic sharing their cricket skills.
This is further support for UNICEF from the Bangladesh Cricket team who in December 2018 entered a two year partnership agreement which is at the centre of UNICEF’s sports activation plan – launched to encourage adolescent boys and girls to play cricket. The agreement includes the world-famous UNICEF logo appearing on the shirts of the Bangladesh cricket team.
The activity forms part of the wider #OneDay4Children campaign which is using the power and reach of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 to help children learn, play and be healthy. The money raised will support UNICEF’s work for children in cricket playing nations across the world.
Hague Primary School, Bethnal Green, is a Gold Unicef UK Rights Respecting School. A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.