Tymal Mills believes inclusive initiatives which aim to engage newer audiences will ultimately pave the way for substantial change in cricket more than gestures such as taking a knee.
While the England and Wales Cricket Board introduced a raft of measures, including a new equality code of conduct, after troubling claims of racism within the game emerged last year, others have taken matters into their own hands.
Ebony Rainford-Brent, the first black woman to represent England, pioneered the Afro-Caribbean Engagement Programme alongside Surrey while Mills is one of several cricketers to become an ambassador for Chance to Shine.
The ambition is to provide a diverse set of role models for the 600,000 children the national cricket charity works with, and Mills, born in Yorkshire with Afro-Caribbean heritage, insisted these ventures can have a lasting impact.
Indeed, the Sussex left-arm paceman feels they will prove more…
