Indoor Cricket

Indoor Cricket Centres are highly flexible facilities that can be used for a huge variety of sports and activities but sometimes cricket performance and surface longevity are overlooked in pursuit of a short term fix. The key criteria to the success of such a venue is to obtain and retain users whilst balancing the books with a longer term, more cost effective view…

Notts Sport’s Specialist Indoor Cricket System was designed to offer a solution to the two main issues encountered when providing a specific, permanent indoor cricket area, namely:?

You have a building’s concrete base foundation to work with so how do you extract a more realistic cricket performance and protect against limb jarring from such a high compaction platform?

Indoor facilities really do allow all weather, all year round use – artificial cricket turf, historically used outdoors, was not designed for such intensive usage, so wear expedites and resurfacing works are needed too frequently meaning cost per year value is poor with no respite from fundraising.

Notts Sport’s NG Ultra Indoor System was tailored to counteract the above problems.

Performance wise the key element is the inclusion of a high density shock pad which absorbs energy upon ball pitch to offer a more realistic bounce and response to spin and seam bowling. Without this specialised performance layer - a high, fast, loopy bounce, with little or no response for the bowler, not to mention a lack of underfoot comfort,?is commonplace.

The top carpet lifespan enhancement was addressed by using state of the art monofilament yarn technology, bringing non-turf cricket surfacing into the 21st century. Such fibres, coupled with the high density specification, is substantially more durable to long term wear and tear?compared to that of old style cricket surfaces.

Inbuilt Coaching Aid Line availability, adds to the coaching armoury and a range of colours further allows a client to personalise.

Please view some NGU Indoor System project example images and videos below:

Above - Pakistan training on the NGU Indoor System at the PCB's National High Performance Centre Lahore, summer 2022.

Above - The Change Foundation Cricket Centre in Surrey.

Above - Leicestershire CCC review the new Notts Sport surface at the Mike Turner Indoor Cricket School

Notts Sport are specialist suppliers of synthetic grass cricket pitch?systems for both indoor and outdoor solutions, to all levels of the game, including, in 2015, the new non-turf pitch & practice area at?Lord’s Cricket Ground. If you have a new build?or refurbishment project then please do not hesitate to contact us via email: [email protected], call:?01455 883730 or inbox this article author directly.