Shakeel Ahmed

Shakeel has been involved in Capital Kids Cricket projects since he started playing cricket in Secondary School. His first engagement with CKC was through a street project in Tower Hamlets back in 2008 where he was a participant. His involvement increased when he joined Tower Hamlets CC with the under 17 team and encouraged by Shahidul Alam Ratan to do a Coaching qualification. Shakeel has been coaching for CKC on a casual basis during his studies at University where he completed an Accounting and Finance Degree.

After completing his studies Shakeel joined Middlesex Cricket participation team as a coach in 2014 and worked with them for 7 years. In his time at Middlesex Cricket Shakeel worked through the ranks to Participation officer and gained experience on managing various projects. Since 2015 he has been a licensed ECB Coach Developer delivering as a tutor on ECB Foundation Coach Courses and ECB Core Coach Courses. In 2020 Shakeel completed his ECB Advanced Coaching Course (Formally Level 3) with support from Middlesex Cricket.

Shakeel Joined CKC in 2021 as a Development Manager and now looks after the key projects at Capital Kids Cricket and manages/mentors all the casual coaches who deliver on these projects.