With a rather bad forecast looming we set up in the Discovery one at a very wet and muddy Yorkshire Showground.Now, we’ve had a few firsts on the ECB Cricket Factory Tour this year and the Yorkshire Show gave us two more – ‘Special Straw’ to help soak up all the mud and rain water and coaches in wellies! […]
The weather has become a major topic of conversation when we arrive to set up however on this occasion we found a new discussion point….MUD and lots of it! Undeterred we built on the only green area of field left and crossed our fingers […]
The ECB Cricket Factory was one of the 24 sports invited by Disability Sport Wales to their annual Wheelchair Sports Spectacular in Cardiff. Over 400 young people with Learning and Physical Disabilities visited the event where they were able to try as many of […]
It was certainly an event in two halves, one gloriously sunny and the other monsoon like! Lucky for us (and him) Clydesdale Bank ambassador Alec Stewart visited in the sunny half, spending time in and around the ECB Cricket Factory Rig helping young participants […]
The ‘Cricket Factory’ equipment was presented to the KNCB (Royal Netherlands Cricket Board) by Cricket Factory and Factory Eleven and will be a feature in the new KNCB Youth Plan. […]
We were busy from start to finish at Catterick where over 10,000 young people visited this three day event. Military personnel challenged the colleges in the Speed throw, only to be rather disappointed that they lost to a 17yr old who threw a mighty […]
The forecast wasn’t good, but we donned waterproofs and joined the thousands of welly wearing visitors at the Suffolk Show. A very busy day on the Thursday and a visit from London 2012 mascot Wenlock didn’t quite make up for the Friday being cancelled […]
What a scorcher! Our second year visiting this event and it didn’t disappoint. Many of the young people and adults remembered us from 2011, quoting their scores and wondering if they would be able to beat them in 2012 – and yes, most of […]
Our first visit into the City of Lincoln took us to the City Square alongside the canal. Despite the rather chilly day hundreds of families visited the ECB Cricket Factory between trips to the shops to challenge each other on the Batting, Catching and […]
Despite the rather soggy ground we set up in the hope that the sun would shine for us and the visiting West Indian team, but our best prayers couldn’t keep the rain away and after just a few rounds on the Batting challenges rain […]
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