She was also the first Asian female in the year history of Leicestershire Law Society to be President. Tony Elgood. Tony studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge where he coxed for the university and captained the college cricket side. Prior to his retirement in , Tony was with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a tax partner for 21 years. He has been a member of MCC since and has held various positions in the charity sector over the last 30 years. Rick Johnson. Rick studied at the University of London.
Having played cricket for Surrey at most age groups, at university he was elected a playing member of MCC and toured with the Club to Cayman Islands and Belize. A serial tourist, he has organised and participated on numerous tours. He has been chairman of two cricket clubs and over the last four years has pioneered a community approach to cricket development at Cranleigh Cricket Club.
His other passions include serving on the committee of the Arabs Cricket Club and the governing body of Cranleigh School. Dr Samir Pathak. Samir was educated at Hymers College in Hull. He subsequently attended Liverpool Medical School and graduated as a Doctor in Samir is in his final year of training now as a liver and pancreatic surgeon and also works as an academic clinical lecturer at the University of Bristol.
Samir has captained his University, played for England Universities as a keeper-batsman and is a playing member of the MCC. Daniel Peltz OBE. As our Special Media Advisor, Archie helps us share the stories of the young people around the world whose lives have been transformed through cricket.
She is passionate about diversity in cricket and is using her influence and reach to change the landscape of sports broadcasting. In she also won the Asian Women of Achievement of Award in the Sport category, and is an advocate for women in the industry. Will is a grassroots and village cricketer and has also enjoyed the opportunity to play at higher levels including a tour to Sri Lanka. It was here that he saw first-hand the enormous impact that cricket can have on the lives of those less fortunate than himself.
In , aged 15, he founded Bat For a Chance, a young and exciting cricket charity which provides kit to underprivileged players across the world, and helps to grow the game more widely. Bat For a Chance has a mission to bring smiles to players, offering an escape from hardship through the game. In , she made the decision to withdraw from the England pathway to focus on her legal studies.
Mumtaz came to the UK at the age of 14 as refugee from Afghanistan. Shortly after his arrival he learned to play cricket at Harrow Town Cricket Club. He was awarded a scholarship to Harrow School and then went on to study at Durham University where he represented Durham University Cricket Club for three years.
With a keen interest in sports of all kinds, Harry is also a freelance sportswriter and has had by-lines in The Guardian, The Times and The Independent. Harry recently took part in a global UN consultation which aimed at tackling violent extremism through sport, and has previously acted as a communications adviser for the charity, Afghan Connection.
As a Young Ambassador, Harry advises the Foundation on its communications strategy. Ajmal is an ex-cricketing professional who has played cricket for over 15 years. During his playing career, he represented England across all formats notably featuring in the Ashes series, the T20 World Cup and the Over World Cup in India. My experiences helped build my confidence, resilience and communication - giving me the necessary skills to represent myself to the best of my ability during interviews.
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US prep schools held student exchanges with elite Nazi academies Dr Helen Roche, Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History in our Department of History, looks back on exchange programmes which took place between leading American and Germans schools in the s.
Ancient tower at Auckland Castle uncovered A team from our Department of Archaeology, in partnership with archaeologists and volunteers from The Auckland Project, has been uncovering the secrets beneath the lawns of County Durham's Auckland Castle. A new study by the UK rugby health project at Durham University has shown that professional rugby players are more likely to have mental health issues in retirement than athletes in non-contact sports, and that those who suffered multiple concussions during their playing career are at even greater risk of depression, anxiety, sleep and anger issues.
The study suggests a strong association between head trauma and mental health in both codes of rugby, and provides evidence of what many people working in the field already believe to be true: rugby has a mental health crisis. The research, which is entirely independent of the governing bodies of each code, found that players who reported suffering from three or more concussions during their professional careers scored significantly worse for psychological signs of depression and anxiety and for sleep disruption.
Around half the players who reported suffering five or more concussions were suffering with symptoms of depression, and two-thirds of them with covert anger and irritability.
The study found no difference in the levels of alcohol consumption between the retired rugby players and the other athletes, which means that can be discounted as an explanation for these findings. The researchers allow that their findings could be because many of those elite players were forced into retirement through injury, an outcome that has been associated with depressive symptoms in other studies. But of course that happens in all sports, and they are also clear that they believe another factor among the elite rugby group in particular is the repeated exposure to concussive and subconcussive impacts during their playing career.
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