Latest Disability News
Shorefields take Winter games Table Cricket title.
Shorefields school came through to win the Essex Cricket Table Cricket title at this years winter games held at Harlow Leisure Zone, the competition featured 5 schools from across Essex.
Run with the support of the Essex Schools competition managers the event was a good competitive event with some evenly match teams taking part.
Table Cricket is a game devised for people with disabilities, its playing surface is a table tennis table or something similar in size and shape if a table tennis table is not available. The game follows similar rules to Cricket and is devised to allow anyone, no matter what impairments, to be able to play. More details on table cricket can be found at http://www.lordstaverners.org/UserFiles/Image/Application%20Forms%20And%20Guides/TableCricketRules
Essex Disability squad start training
The Essex BACD team resumed their training ahead of the 2012 season. The team play in the national disability hardball league, South division. After a promising season last year the team are looking forward to the season. Training began in November and the team are currently training every fortnight. A tough season awaits but with a couple of new players coming into the side the team are hoping to be pushing for a top 2 finish to allow them to reach the semi finals of the competition.
The teams fixtures for 2012 are:
|
Essex |
V |
Warks |
20th May |
South Loughton CC |
|
Essex |
V |
Hamps |
27th May |
South Loughton CC |
|
Isle of Wight |
V |
Essex |
10th June |
Shanklin CC |
|
Surrey |
V |
Essex |
24th June |
Surrey |
|
Devon |
V |
Essex |
1st July |
Devon |
|
Essex |
V |
Surrey |
29th July |
South Loughton CC |
Harold Wood win half term competition.
Harold wood carried on their winning form to win the Spring half term indoor club competition. Having won the club league last summer they added the title after a close competition at Mildmay sports centre, Chelmsford.
The competition featured teams from Saffron Walden, Springfield and Harold Wood.
All teams were competitive and there was some excellent batting and fielding on display, several outstanding catches were taken by all sides.
The competition was held as part of the Hit the Top programme supported by Cricket4Change.
It is hoped that the competition will encourage the clubs to train hard ahead of the club league being held in the summer.
For more information on disability cricket please contact:
Patrick Ward
Disability Development officer
patrick.ward@essexcricket.org.uk
01245 254047
07787 294980
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