About this episode

Jack Luffman discusses the first year of the Desert Vipers Talent Pathway Programme and its impact on youth cricket in the UAE.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we thought it would be interesting to just take a step back from the upcoming ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League and catch up on what’s happened over the past year with one of the Desert Vipers’ local, UAE initiatives, the franchise’s Talent Pathway Programme for young, up and coming boys and girls. Jack Luffman is the lead for the programme and coming up we speak with him about the operation, which wrapped up with the Apex Cricket Festival in the UK...

People in this episode

Host: Brian Murgatroyd

Guest: Jack Luffman

Topics covered

• Desert Vipers
• Talent Pathway Programme
• youth cricket
• UAE initiatives
• Jack Luffman
• Apex Cricket Festival

Keywords

• Desert Vipers
• Talent Pathway Programme
• youth cricket
• Jack Luffman
• Apex Cricket Festival
• UAE
• Guyana Global Super League

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Desert Vipers, ExxonMobil, Apex Cricket Festival

Places: UAE, UK

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