- Balls distributed through All Stars and Dynamos youth schemes
- ‘We are sorry products haven’t met the standards we’d expect’
The England and Wales Cricket Board has advised parents and clubs to stop using plastic balls distributed through its popular All Stars and Dynamos schemes, after discovering concerns over their chemical composition.
The youth engagement programmes, aimed at the ages five to eight and eight to 11 and running since 2017, have previously included free playing kit alongside coaching programmes. But safety testing on the products has shown the level of phthalates – a widely used chemical group that increases durability of plastics – is beyond approved levels in the balls.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/14/ecb-advises-to-stop-using-plastic-balls-after-chemical-composition-concerns-cricket
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Publish date : 2024-03-14 23:36:33
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