ECB Cricket Factory
Visit the ECB Cricket Factory Roadshow Tour website for dates and venue details - plus event reports, photo galleries and blogs!
The ECB Cricket Factory Roadshow Tour presents a new approach to engaging young people into the sport.
The
Tour Rig provides a platform to allow young participants to perform a
variety of cricket activities and challenge all the key basic skills:
batting, bowling, throwing, catching and cricket related movement.
All
the activities can be accessed by all participants from 4-18 years
(including the parents!) and each challenge can be modified to suit
each individual’s level of skill or cricket experience.
Supported
by local ECB coaches, the aim is to give all participants a positive
and fun experience that will encourage them to take up the sport, and
provide them all with information relating to where they can go on to
play and watch cricket in the future.
The ECB Cricket Factory
Tour is a public demonstration of the new ECB Long Term Athlete
Development process giving young people the opportunity to experience
the game at the right level for their particular level of skill,
providing a positive learning process from the playground to the Test
arena.
Activity Stations
The ECB Cricket Factory comprises four main components:
Tactical Batting Zone – Batting / Movement / Balance skill test
Decisions!
Decisions! A quick single run, through the gap for four or a massive
hit for six! Watch out though you might get caught! Step up to the
wicket and face all the challenges of the opening batsman.
Fast Fielding Zone - Catching / Movement / Balance skill test
You’re
standing in the slips. It’s that crucial moment, the chance is yours,
watch the ball off the rebound net as you move to take that important
catch to dismiss their best player.
Wicket Zone - Fielding / Throwing skill test
You’re
in the outfield - you’ve raced to collect the ball - the batsmen are
running between the wickets. Which option - the gloves of the wicket
keeper or middle stump! You decide - make your throw!
Bowling Target Zone - Bowling / Accuracy / Movement skill test
Keep
the batsman guessing. Bowling down into the zone through the target
maze, get the stumps in your sights and test your accuracy.
Tour Rig
The
ECB Cricket Factory Tour Rig utilises the Factory Eleven
‘Playsurround’. A flexible rig design that allows the 2007 Tour to
visit a wide range of locations, both indoors and out, around England
and Wales throughout this year!
From club outfields, school
playgrounds, town centre market places to indoor retail centres the
Tour, including a summer Beach Tour element across the south coast,
will be taking cricket to a wide public audience throughout 2007 giving
thousands of young people the opportunity to experience the fun and
challenge of cricket in stimulating Activity Play Zones
Importantly,
the rig can be very flexible, some occasions one or other of the
external games can be removed allowing it to fit into a smaller area.
The ECB Cricket Factory tour is a non-profit making event, funded by the ECB and supported by Vodafone.
View full ECB Cricket Factory Roadshow Tour 2007 dates and venue details - plus event reports and photo galleries!
Primary
and secondary schools, clubs, district cricket and facilities are all
crucial elements of a framework to provide children with the
opportunity to experience the game, as well as a pathway for the more
talented. 
The
ECB development staff's innovation and enterprise in launching new
initiatives is paying dividends in increasing the numbers of school
children playing cricket in England and Wales.
