Monmouth Cricket Club will be going back to school this week to inspire the next generation.

The club's coaches will be helping with indoor cricket training at Monmouth Comprehensive School tomorrow (Thursday 24th January), from 3.15pm.

The club's Sunday captain Liam Stubbs is employed at the school and is the brainchild behind the new project to offer cricket to more young people in the town.

Stubbs is taking his UKCC Level One coaching certificate  and will be helped out at the sessions by other qualified coaches from the club, including ex-Wales youth player Matthew Jones.

Monmouth Cricket Club have made an application to the Lord's Taverners fund, through Cricket Wales, to buy a new under-13 hard-ball kit bag for the comprehensive school.

Former Monmouth Comprehensive School pupils David Teague and Ian Morgan, a Level Two-qualified coach, both play for the cricket club and gained representative youth honours with Wales and Gwent Young Cricketers.

Monmouth, who are sponsored by JD Wetherspoon and Ancre Hill Vineyard, already have a strong link with Monmouth School, where club development officer Jon Despontin is a teacher.

Monmouth are an ECB Clubmark accredited club and have been buoyed this week after being accepted into the GB Liners Marches Sunday League.

They will be playing 40 overs-a-side, home-and-away fixtures on Sundays this summer against Brockhampton, Leominster-based Dales, Builth Wells, Colwall and Bromyard.

Monmouth's team will be a mixture of youth and experience and Stubbs plans to use it as a chance for youngsters to make the step-up to senior cricket.

Meanwhile, Monmouth Cricket Club held a coaches meeting last week and have confirmed their new junior team managers for the coming season.

Martin Newell will be managing the under-15 team; Despontin is running the under-13s; Paul Swingwood is being assisted by Jonathan Davies at under-11 level and Gaz Hughes, with help from Tracy Hodgson, will be looking after the under-9 soft-ball team.

Monmouth Cricket Club now have more than 12 qualified coaches who have also been on first aid and safeguarding children courses, and been CRB checked by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

The coaching team will be helping at training sessions on Wednesdays during the summer.

For more details about youth cricket at Monmouth Cricket Club, call junior development officer Jon Despontin, a Level-Two qualified coach, on 07966015609 or email [email protected]">[email protected]