Our Team
Neeta Patel

Head Safeguarding Officer
Neeta has been hugely committed to the development of female cricketers both indoors and outdoors, for over 20 years. She was a coach with Leicestershire CCC for most of this time and has coached England Indoor Squads at every World Cup since 2011. She possesses the ECB level 2 coaching qualification as well as the Club Coach Award. Neeta is the team’s most qualified and experienced safe-guarding officer.
ECB Level 2 Coach.
Dave Brown

Coach - 13 & Under Boys, Assistant Coach - England Men
Dave has been an ECB Level 2 coach for 19 years. Formerly the Staffs Under 10 County & District Coach, Junior club coach at Dunstall and Staffs skill set lead in Wicket Keeping and Fielding. Dave is a now focusing his time purely into the indoor format. Invaluable experience was gained in New Zealand 2018 where Dave acted as an Assistant Coach to the 13 and Under squad, who performed so brilliantly on their first outing on the world stage. Since then he has coached successful Super League teams, represented England over 35s in Cape Town in October 2019 and more recently in the Dubai Tri-Series s 2022. Dave will be assisting the preparation of the Men's squad for the 2022 world Cup in Australia before focussing as Head Coach of the 13 and under Boys.
ECB Level 2 Coach.
Anish Patel

Head Coach - 17 & Under Girls
Anish studied at Loughborough University, completing a BSc in Sports Technology and a second BSc in Sports Management. As well as being previously a semi-professional outdoor player and England Indoor Captain, Anish has been passionate about the indoor format since the age of 16. Now with over 50 England caps (many as captain) Anish is a great asset behind the development of many of our young players with his experience from international leadership in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Most recently Anish captained the exciting squad that played in the Dubai Tri-Series in March 2022 and also played in the 2022 World Cup in Australia.
Now Anish is focussing on the 17 & Under Girls squad in preparation for the Junior World Serioes in Dubai.
ECB Level 3 Coach.
Pete Staley

Manager - 15 & U Boys, 13 & U Boys
Pete has been coaching and administering cricket for over 20 years and playing long before that. He played a lot of indoor cricket 30 years ago when the sport had better provision in the north.
Pete coached the indoor U11 AICE National champions and U14 AICE Super League winning sides in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Still playing Masters indoor cricket and currently administering the Lancashire District cricket competitions, Pete's managerial skills as well as his coaching experience will be very well utilised as we gear up our junior programme ready for the Junior World Series in late September 2023.
UKCC2 Level Coach
AICE is also supported by a trusted Health, Medical and
Rehabilitation Team that have in depth understanding of
their specialty alongside hands on experience of the
demands of our sport and tournament formats.

Dr Rak Patel MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG
England Tour Doctor

Ben Lapworth MOst
Registered Osteopath

Fran Baldwin BScANutr
England Nutritionist

Steve Allen MScDip
Head Physiotherapist

Stacey Plant BSc MSST
Senior Sports Therapist





