Amazing weather for the Essex Country Show at Barleylands, in Billericay this weekend – and a fitting end to the closing hours of the fantastically successful Paralympics taking place in nearby Stratford.
Whilst we weren’t handing out gold medals on this occasion, Dave and Dan who joined us from Essex County Cricket Board were able to offer some fantastic promotions including annual memberships and other great giveaways. We had plenty of skilled visitors to the rig and it was fantastic to see all the family groups getting involved with a healthy dose of competition between them.
Essex County Cricket Board were also using the show as an opportunity to promote disability cricket and Women’s cricket – and we were lucky enough to have 2 coaches from the women’s county side – Natalie and Hannah – who joined us on Saturday.
We had a unique coaching team join us on the rig on Sunday – a family of coaches. Unsurprisingly they worked really well together and did a great job working with the visitors to the rig which included a great mix of families and young people from the event.
Essex County Cricket Board is certainly working hard to promote participation in all forms of cricket within the county. We were pleased to be able to play our part helping people experience playing the core elements of cricket in a new and accessible way.
