Pathway Player Recruitment 23/24

13/06/2023 by Nick Pinhol

Our Pathway is an accessible and structured talent development programme that provides an appropriate and progressive developmental journey for girls and boys between the ages of 9 and 18. Our Pathway is for players aspiring to play representative, hard ball cricket for Oxfordshire and is designed to provide appropriate and progressive transitions between ages and stages of development, targeting longitudinal development to grow a strong and sustainable talent pool.

The Pathway is underpinned by a player identification and recruitment system that assists our search for high-potential players and the transition of players into the Pathway from Clubs, Schools and the wider cricket community within Oxfordshire. More detailed information about our Pathway can be found at https://www.oxfordshire.cricket/performance/pathway/.

To ensure that our Pathway remains easily accessible and inclusive for both Girls and Boys we remain open to receiving player recommendations via our nomination process. We seek the nomination of high-potential players who have demonstrated above average current performance levels relative to their peers and/or who have the capacity to perform at a more advanced stage of development and level of competition within our pathway programme.

Player nominations can be submitted by any individual and we ask that you please note the following information before nominating a player;

- Players who were deselected from the Pathway at either Phase 1 or Phase 2 in 2022-2023 will need to be nominated.
- Players who participated in the Pathway from Phase 3 onwards in 2022-2023 will automatically be invited to Phase 2 of the forthcoming year. Please click HERE for a summary of all the players that will be automatically invited – they will not need to be renominated.

Players that are new to our pathway, have moved into the county, opted to exit the pathway this year, or have progressed since their prior involvement within the pathway require nomination.

- To qualify for Oxfordshire a player must ordinarily either have been born in Oxfordshire, live in Oxfordshire, play club cricket in Oxfordshire, go to school in Oxfordshire or have represented Oxfordshire at County Age Group level the previous programme year.

Nominated Girls must be born between 01/09/2005 and 31/08/2014 and nominated Boys between 01/09/2005 and 31/08/2014.

Please submit one response for the player you are nominating using the online form provided. All nominations MUST be received by Sunday 16th July 2023. We ask that you provide accurate information and that you obtain consent to share any personal data before submitting a player nomination. Please click the link to NOMINATE A PLAYER

Should you have any questions regarding the nominations process then please contact one of the following;