How Gary Kirsten is using cricket to change the lives of children

Kirsten played 101 Tests and 185 one-day internationals for South Africa, and scored 14,087 international runs. Post-retirement, he has taken up coaching roles across the globe. He guided India to the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup title in 2011.

But far away from the international scene, in Khayelitsha, Kirsten is working towards changing the lives of kids through cricket. When he first arrived in this small town, six-seven years ago, he got in touch with the principal of one of the schools, and found out there was no sports facility available for the kids.

From having "no appetite for the game", the town is now attracting hundreds of kids to participate every week. Kirsten's goal now is to establish a "cricket excellence programme".

"There used to be no appetite for the game here, and five years later, we've got 450 kids playing cricket every week," Kirsten said. "There's a lot of talent in young cricketers here, and every year, two or three of them are getting scholarships to get to the elite schools in Cape Town. So that's a great opportunity for them, but I think for me, I'd love to create a cricket excellence programme here, at one of the schools which could be recognised as one of the top-end cricket schools in the country."

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