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Cricket World Cup: Where are all the black English cricketers?

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Kent opener Daniel Bell-Drummond has set up his own initiative to encourage black children to play cricket

By Kal Sajad
BBC Get Inspired

Ask any cricket fan who grew up in the 1990s to name a handful of standout performances by England players, and the chances are they will recall a match-winning performance by a black cricketer.

Perhaps it would be Devon Malcolm's fiery 'you guys are history' spell against South Africa in 1994? Or Dean Headley's memorable bowling display to win the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne in 1998? Then there's Alex Tudor's 99 not out as a nightwatchman against New Zealand six months later.

Those performances - and others by players such as Mark Butcher, Phil DeFreitas and Chris Lewis - could have been the inspirational catalyst for more black cricketers to make their way into the England team.

That - with the recent exception/eligibility of Barbados-born Jofra Archer - hasn't happened.

In 2007, BBC Sport asked: "Where have all of England's black cricketers gone">