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Commonwealth Baton Relay, Tonbridge

With the Commonwealth Games just over six weeks away the Commonwealth Baton was making its way up the country to its final destination in Scotland.

To celebrate its passing through, Tonbridge Local Authority had put on a festival of sport linking with a number of regional […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Royal London ODI, Edgbaston

The fifth and final test ODI in the Sri Lanka Series took us to Edgbaston.

In support of raising awareness of cricket to young people over 3000 school children across all ages had been invited to attend the match. With these groups on site the […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Royal London ODI, Lords

With a good weather forecast we were looking forward to a top day of cricket and a busy day on the ECB Cricket Factory.

Set up in one of our favourite locations, the Nursery Ground at Lords, we saw nearly 600 young people and adults […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Royal London ODI, Old Trafford

The third of Royal Londons ODI’s took us to Old Trafford, where we fitted nicely into the corner of the activation area.

Unfortunately the rather damp cold day wasn’t great for the players but it meant we were very busy throughout the match with groups […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Royal London ODI, Durham

We headed north to Emirates Durham to support The Royal London ODI England v Sri Lanka Series.

The ECB Cricket Factory rig was busy from gates opening to end of play with many young fans returning throughout the game, not only to see if they […]

By |June 24th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Royal London ODI – Surrey

The first of the Royal London ODI series was at the Kia Oval, Surrey, and it was here that the rig was used to support their match day activity.

Despite the rather mixed weather numbers throughout the day were good, with us even getting a […]

By |June 23rd, 2014|News|Comments Off

ECB Cricket Factory and the Somerset CCC 3 Day Beach Tour

ECB Cricket Factory have teamed up with Somerset CCC for a three day beach tour later this month.

From the 20th to the 22nd of June we will be going on the road and heading to Devon, Somerset and Dorset to help encourage local residents […]

By |June 11th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Trafford Day, Old Trafford

With the sun shining we set up our full rig in the front of Old Trafford to support a new event in Lancashire CCC’s diary – Trafford Day.

The day was created to open the doors of Old Trafford to the local community and encourage […]

By |May 20th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Gloucestershire v Somerset T20

Busy evening at Gloucestershire County Ground supporting the launch game of the NatWestBlast T20 Series.

Placed pitch side under the big screen the ECB Cricket Factory Rig proved extremely popular with the fan base from both sides who had travelled to see the game. All ages […]

By |May 20th, 2014|News|Comments Off

Surrey Disability Cricket Day

Our location at the Kia Oval provided us with an amazing backdrop of the new Pavilion.

The Disability Day event organised by Stuart Cope Surrey Cricket Development Manager saw 4 County disability teams brought together to play a knockout style tournament on the  international ground.

Throughout […]

By |May 12th, 2014|News|Comments Off