Idea 472 of 500. Cluster 25: Sport and the cricket economy
Equipment manufacturing: bats, balls and kit, which India does and we do not
The mechanism, from the book
The country's best-known export is cricket, and little of the business around it is built at home.
Every idea in cluster 25 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Buy one bat and one ball from an importer's shop and list every material and every step that went into them. Take that list to a wood workshop and a leather workshop near you and ask what each part would cost to make here in a batch of 50. Then show the quotes to 3 school cricket masters and ask what they pay for kit now. The price gap is your business case.
- Who pays first
- A school cricket master or a club that buys kit every season, and would switch to a local maker for a better price and a faster replacement.
- What leaves today
- The island plays cricket everywhere, yet its bats, balls and kit arrive imported, and the making margin leaves with the money paid for them.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
Cricket among the things Sri Lankans have built
More from cluster 25
- 466Cricket academies for the children of Sri Lankans abroad and the world's, in the school holidays
- 467Coaching exports: Sri Lankan coaches contracted to clubs abroad through one agency
- 468Cricket tourism packages built around the international calendar and the domestic grounds
- 469Surf competitions on the east coast on the world calendar
- 470Marathon and trail-running events in the hills and the ancient cities, with the medal worth keeping
- 471Sports-physio and rehabilitation clinics serving the touring teams and the visitors
Idea 472 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.