- Over 63,000 registered customers have accomplished greater than 43,000 programs in 14 completely different languages over previous 5 years
- Olympic motion driving take-up, ICC purpose for one hundred pc Member adoption by 2028
- New Studying Administration System (LMS) launched to ship improved capabilities for Members
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The Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) Coaching and Training (T&E) Programme continues to drive world cricket studying and growth, with over 63,000 registered customers finishing greater than 43,000 programs in 14 completely different languages over the previous 5 years.
Launched in 2021, the T&E Programme’s near-universal adoption as a free, high-quality useful resource has seen it change into the ICC’s main mechanism for delivering world schooling and accreditation. Its contributors have come from 110 ICC Member Nations and 69 non-ICC international locations, with 109 of 110 ICC Members finishing at the very least one ICC-certified course.
The programme’s success was on show on the current ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026, with Craig Williams (Namibia) graduating the ICC Teaching Degree 3 pathway earlier than taking over the top coach function for his nation on the event.
The T&E programme can also be enjoying a key function in increasing the sport at grassroots degree, significantly by college cricket initiatives and the event of ladies’s cricket worldwide to make sure that everybody has an gratifying and enriching cricket expertise by extra and higher high quality coaches, umpires and pitch curators in any respect ranges of the sport.
By way of its criiio Cricket Programme, the ICC has educated greater than 2,200 academics and facilitators from over 1,400 colleges and engaged 80,000+ contributors globally. Delivered throughout 103 ICC Member international locations and 17 non-Member international locations, criiio has reached over 725,000 contributors in whole, with ladies and ladies accounting for 49 p.c of contributors.
The expansion of ladies’s cricket is additional supported by ladies now making up 44 p.c of ICC International Grasp Educators, who’re chargeable for growing tutors and delivering programmes worldwide.
To additional drive world coaching and schooling, the ICC is introducing a brand new Studying Administration System (LMS) to the programme. Accessible through net and cellular functions, it’ll ship improved capabilities in information entry, administration, monitoring, and reporting at Member degree. These enhanced insights will allow Members to develop simpler home methods, monitor progress, and obtain outlined targets.
ICC Common Supervisor, Improvement, Will Glenwright, stated: “The continued development of cricket globally depends upon the energy of our folks, programs, and pathways. By way of the ICC Coaching and Training Programme, we’re dedicated to equipping our Members with the instruments and data wanted to construct sustainable and high-performing cricket environments that not solely enhance the competitiveness of worldwide cricket but additionally enhance the enjoying expertise for all.
“The introduction of the improved Studying Administration System is a crucial a part of this journey, enabling higher entry to schooling and simpler use of information and insights at Member degree. As we sit up for key milestones, together with the Los Angeles Olympic Video games in 2028, strengthening our world workforce and supporting Member growth will stay central to our ambitions for the sport.”
As cricket prepares for its return to the 2028 Olympic Video games in Los Angeles, schooling and workforce growth will play a crucial function in supporting world growth. In 2025 alone, 21 ICC Members secured funding by their Nationwide Olympic Committees, reinforcing the significance of robust, sustainable growth programs.
This was additional assisted by the ICC’s partnership with Olympic Solidarity, which has offered vital assist to ICC Members in advancing cricket coaching and schooling all around the world.
With the Olympic Video games in thoughts, the ICC goals to have one hundred pc Member adoption and energetic programme supply by 2028, in addition to over 200,000 course completions and a minimal 25 p.c feminine participation throughout all pathways.