Read: Sussex cricket academy graduates to enjoy life-changing exchange trip

Two graduates of the Aldridge Cricket Academy (ACA) programme at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) go on transformational student exchange trip.

BACA is Sussex Cricket’s state school partner, the Junior Cricket Pathway allows boys and girls in years 7 to 11 to pursue a personalised cricket programme that fits around their academic studies at BACA. The Pathway is a pre-cursor to the Aldridge Cricket Academy for BACA’s sixth form students.

Connor Bettsworth and Seaver Cowley, were awarded the first ever Dormer Melluish Aldridge Cricket Scholarships in Summer 2022, giving them a life-changing student exchange opportunity to spend six months in Christchurch, New Zealand, playing and coaching cricket at Riccarton Cricket Club and volunteering with two local charities, whilst two students from New Zealand headed to the UK to spend six months in England at Arundel Castle Cricket Club and at the cricket centre at BACA.

Read the full article written by Mark Dunford for Sussex World here.

You can also here from Alexia Walker (Director of Cricket at BACA and Sussex Women Head Coach), Jack Davies (BACA Principle), Conor Bettsworth and Seaver Cowley themselves about the amazing opportunity and the work BACA does to enable pupils from working-class backgrounds to play elite cricket.