Play Cricket

This is a basic guide to how you can get involved in cricket; covered includes:

• Learn the game
• Become a coach
• Improve your skills
• Clubmark
• Focus clubs
• Become a groundsperson
• Become a scorer

Juniors

Learn to play

• Awards - courses to gain Proficiency Test Awards run throughout the county during the winter.
• Holidays - coaching also takes place during school holidays for five to thirteen year olds.
• Fine tune - one-to-one sessions are available with bowling machines for children aged 11 and over to improve specific aspects of their game subject to availability. These sessions take place between 3.00 and 5.00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the winter. Please book no more than one week in advance on 0115 982 3045.
  
  For more information on courses available and prices, or for a comprehensive, up-to-date Coaching Programme covering all activities email chloe.gibson@nottsccc.co.uk
• Security - all sessions are run by ECB qualified coaches who are fully CRB checked.
• Nottinghamshire has been a strong supporter of the ECB's Clubmark scheme.

Clubmark

• This scheme identifies the best-run clubs in the county; those who are "child friendly", well run and have an organised structure for the whole club in place.
• So far, just 15 clubs have achieved the prestigious accolade of being Clubmark accredited and these are constantly monitored to check they maintain the high standards needed.
• We can tell you who they are and which ones are closest to you.
• If there are no Clubmark accredited clubs in your area we can also advise on which other clubs are working towards accreditation and run thriving youth sections.

Focus Clubs

• The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board was asked three years ago to name the clubs they thought were most proactive at that time in terms of junior development, facility provision, qualified coaches, etc.
• Since then, 22 Focus Clubs were identified but this list is constantly being monitored, and clubs can be added, as well as removed.
• They must been seen to be working towards ECB initiatives as well as being proactive in attending courses set up for the benefit of their clubs while aiming to achieve Clubmark status.
• Nottinghamshire's 22 Focus Clubs are: Attenborough, Calverton, Caythorpe, Clifton,Clumber Park, Edwinstowe, Ellerslie, Farnsfield, Kimberley, Kirkby Portland, Mansfield & Pleasley, Mansfield Hosiery Mills, Milton, Notts & Arnold Amateurs, Papplewick & Linby, Plumtree, Radcliffe on Trent, Ransome & Marles (Newark), Southwell, Welbeck Colliery, Wollaton and Worksop.
  
  For contract details or further advice on clubs in your area email david.tighe@nottsccc.co.uk

Adults

• Play - we can help you find the nearest club to suit your ability.
• Coach - we can help you gain ECB qualifications on a range of courses held throughout the county. Please note that places on these courses are limited and applications are dealt with according to the ECB's National Strategy Plan, meaning priority is given to those people who belong to focus clubs.
• Mow! - learn the secrets of preparing perfect pitches on courses run by the Institute of Groundsmen. Ask us how!
  
  For more information email stewart.burrows@nottsccc.co.uk
• Score - courses teaching all you need to know about how to score are run at Trent Bridge.
• Umpire - courses on umpiring matches are held at Trent Bridge.
  
  For more information contact Trevor Wilson on 0115 929 5141 or Pete Smith on 0115 917 4632.

Women

• There are successful womens' and girls' teams at various adult and junior levels in Notts with a number of players currently in the Full England Women's squad.
• Some clubs in the county also run women's sections and we can let you know who these are.
• For futher information on women's cricket in Nottinghamshire email eddie.burke@nottsccc.co.uk. Alternatively call Jane Islip on 01623 883271.

Disability Cricket

• Notts has a county team for people with disabilities.
• They train and play regularly and are keen to find new players.
• Table Cricket is a game devised in Nottingham for people with severe disabilities.
• Primarily being promoted within special schools in the county, Table Cricket can also be played by adults.

For futher information on disabled cricket in Nottinghamshire email eddie.burke@nottsccc.co.uk For information on the Notts team call Phil Peat in the Sports Disability Unit on 0115 977 2883 or e-mail phil.peat@nottscc.gov.uk