Posted By MUhammad Basharat

Youngsters strive to reach streets of fame

November 27 2009 at 01:30pm 

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By Liam Moses

Sports Staff

Hundreds of Cape Flats children took to the streets of Langa - to show off their cricket skills at the finals of the annual street cricket tournament.

The aim of the tournament was to develop cricket in the communities and unearth talented youngsters.

Brad Bing, the managing director of organisers Sporting Chance, believes the participants will also learn skills they can use off the cricket pitch.

The final yesterday was the culmination of six weeks of matches involving 3 000 children from areas such as Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Elsies River, Mitchells Plain and Ocean View.

Provincial MEC for Education Donald Grant believes that involvement in sport is the key to the development of these children.

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