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Visual Impairment Cricket
Indoor training sessions are underway at Wolverhampton University, City Sports Centre, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY.
First outdoor training session at Wolverhampton CC is scheduled for Sunday 22nd April.
Blind Cricket England & Wales Fixtures 2018
Sunday 29th April – Worcestershire (away)
Sunday 13th May – Herefordshire (home)
Sunday 20th May – Lancashire Lions (home)
Saturday 9th June – Herefordshire (away)
Sunday 1st July – Wavertree Merseyside (home)
Sunday 22nd July – Worcestershire (home)
Sunday 5th August – Lancashire Lions (away)
Sunday 19th August – Wavertree Merseyside (away)
Ability Cricket
Sessions are running fortnightly on Thursday evenings 5-6.30pm at King Edwards Leisure Centre, Lichfield, loads of fun, loads of cricket!
The Ability Cricket representative squad are training indoors at Newcastle College on Sunday mornings, next session is Sunday 11th March. Last indoor fixture is on Sunday 18th March v Oswestry at Abraham Darby Sports Centre, Telford, 2pm start.
England & Wales Super9s Fixtures 2018
May 13th – Derbyshire (A)
May 20th – Yorkshire (H)
June 10th – Lancashire (A)
June 24th – Derbyshire (H)
July 8th – Yorkshire (A)
July 22nd – Lancashire (H)
Rugeley CC are launching an Open Day on Sunday 3rd June 2018 to showcase disability cricket, organisations and individuals are invited to come along and get involved.
The aim is simple – to set up Staffordshire Cricket’s first learning disability cricket league and to encourage cricket clubs across the county to really become inclusive and welcome and run their own teams.
Table Cricket
Table Cricket is a game that can be adapted to suit varying levels of ability and impairment, and has benefits for both body and mind: people with physical disabilities can play cricket in a team just like their non-disabled peers, while those with challenging behaviour can learn to focus on tasks and work together in a group.
Table Cricket provides competitive opportunities for those who do not normally have access to them, helping to instil pride and team spirit, but most importantly of all, Table Cricket is great fun!
Thanks to a successful funding application to the Lord’s Taverners, we have been able to organise a Table Cricket Programme in Special Schools across the county, this has involved Table Cricket coaching in 19 schools leading to 3 x Festivals.
10 schools took part across 2 days of competition at Westcroft Special School, Wolverhampton with 75 children taking part, this was made up of 60 boys and 15 girls, coaches from Staffordshire Cricket ran the Festivals assisted by 4 x Table Cricket Young Leaders from Westcroft.
This replicated in the North of the county with 5 schools taking part in another Festival, 34 children, 25 boys and 9 girls helped by 8 Table Cricket Young Leaders from The Meadows and Watermill Special Schools.
Primary and Secondary age children with the following disabilities played with and against each other:
Physical
Learning MLD and SLD
Hearing Impairment
Visual Impairment
Walking Cricket
Walking Cricket gives the opportunity for people to play a format of the game that may be seen as more accessible than other current formats. As the name suggests the game is played at walking place and as well as delivering cricketing skills to players who may not have played for a while, or for new players. The format provides an exciting way to keeping active and fit.
Aimed at people over the age of 50, the game also is able to provide an opportunity for people to socialise and get involved in a very interesting format of the game.
Walking Cricket sessions are running weekly on a Monday at the Excel Academy, Sneyd Green, Stoke on Trent, 6-7.30pm, and on a Wednesday at Alleynes Sports Centre, Stone, 5.30-7pm, come along and get involved.
For more information on any of these sessions contact:
Steve Lightfoot
Disability Cricket Officer
07789 265618
s.lightfoot@staffordshirecricket.co.uk