All Stars Cricket

All Stars Cricket provides a fantastic first experience for all children aged 5-8 years old where they’re guaranteed 8 weeks of jam-packed fun, activity and skills development. The programme is designed to introduce children to the sport, teaching them new skills, helping them make new friends and have a great time doing so.

Every child that registers will receive a backpack full of goodies. Your child’s pack will include:

• Backpack
• Cricket bat
• Cricket ball
• Personalised t-shirt with your child’s name

All children returning to All Stars will receive a kit bag, a set of stumps, a new ball and a personalised t-shirt.

There are over 2,200 clubs and centres registered to run All Stars courses across England & Wales and around 25 in Cambridgeshire so you’ll be guaranteed to find a session close to you when signing up.

Key course features include:

• A perfect first experience of cricket for all children aged 5-8 years-old
• Eight 60-minute sessions, held over 8 weeks
• All Stars Cricket kit bag
• Valuable time with your kids – mums and dads are encouraged to take part too
• All Stars Cricket is fully inclusive and designed to support a wide range of abilities, disabilities and different learning needs
• Safe and fully accredited

All Stars is all about giving children the best first experience of the sport, with an emphasis on fun!

Children will learn fundamental movement skills including catching, throwing and batting. Soft balls and plastic bats are used by everyone and all participants are given their very own cricket bag full of everything they need to play the game.

Every child will earn stars in their own activity booklet that match the skills learned during the programme:

Batting – hitting a moving ball

Throwing – underarm and overarm

Catching – small and large balls

Bowling – overarm

Running – lots of movement

Teamwork – fun games with friends

Communication – the basics of cricket

Spirit of Cricket – how to respect others

To register your child for All Stars Cricket please visit https://www.ecb.co.uk/play/all-stars

For any clubs looking to get involved with All Stars Cricket in Cambridgeshire please contact matt.morley@cambscricket.org.uk for support in this area

Dynamos Cricket

Dynamos Cricket provides a fantastic next step for all those graduating from All Stars Cricket and the perfect introduction for all 8-11 year-olds new to the sport!

Dynamos is all about fun and provides children with a more social offer, focusing on developing the fundamental skills required to play cricket.

We know how important it is to look like the heroes of the game, so every child who registers will receive their very own Dynamos Cricket New Balance t-shirt, personalised with their name and number.

The programme features include:

• Children will use soft balls and light wooden bats
• Minimum of six 60-90 minute sessions, or minimum eight hours of course delivery
• Introduction to game play through a countdown cricket match
• New Balance personalised t-shirt with name and number
• Valuable time with your kids – parents/guardians are encouraged to take part too
• Complementary digital app experience
• Exclusive access to Topps Cricket Attax cards
• Dynamos Cricket is fully inclusive and designed to support a wide range of abilities, disabilities and different learning needs
• Safe and fully accredited

Sessions begin with a 5-10 minute warm-up to get the children moving and recapping on gross motor skills and basic ball handling.

The sessions continue with skill builders for 15 minutes, providing everything children need to play, particularly focusing on bowling, which can be the make-or-break element of any game of cricket!

The session finishes with a game of countdown cricket that will take 30-45 minutes and give everyone a chance to participate in all elements of the game – batting, bowling and fielding.

To register your child for Dynamos Cricket please visit https://www.ecb.co.uk/play/dynamos-cricket

For any clubs locally that would like to run Dynamos Cricket please contact matt.morley@cambscricket.org.uk