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Expand Your Facilities, Play More Cricket EXPAND YOUR FACILITIES, PL AY MORE CRICKET A top quality, portable, roll out, cricket pitch solution for clubs, schools and homes WWW.FLICX.COM CONTENTS On grass .................................. 3 Nets and on the outfield ............. 4 Indoors .................................... 5 CONVERTING GRASS Over Astro or synthetics ............. 6 WELCOME AND For backyard cricket .................. 7 2G Flicx Pitch range .................. 8 FIELDS FOR MATCHES THANK YOU FOR Personalisation .......................... 9 2G Benefits and warranty ........ 10 Partnerships .............................11 & TRAINING REQUESTING THE Cricket anywhere .....................12 The bounce ............................ 13 Converting grass football, soccer or rugby fields, parks, and green open spaces into LATEST 2G FLICX Prepare, Install, Maintain ......... 14 additional or new cricket pitches is the most common application of the 2G Flicx Pitch. This Coaching .............................. 15 allows clubs and schools to expand their capacity and create space for new teams at satellite Testimonials and contact us ...... 16 PITCH BROCHURE. venues that perhaps were not opened up for cricket use previously. On existing cricket grounds, the 2G Flicx Pitch enables you to create a second wicket, have an extra portable artificial surface in place or to host multiple junior matches simultaneously, run cricket festivals At Flicx UK we are on a mission to help cricket Fast forward to 2021 season and 2G Flicx Pitch is on one single oval divided up or make extra cricket nets! to grow globally by CREATING NEW or now UK made and we are proud to have supplied DEVELOPING EXISTING facilities with our unique pitches recently to organisations including Cricket portable, roll out wicket. Flicx was started in 1997 Australia, Japan Cricket Association, Surrey Cricket, AS A MAIN SQUARE AS A SECOND SQUARE by Richard Beghin with a vision of creating a level top cricket clubs and schools worldwide as well as Flicx gives you the ability to create a new cricket pitch by At more traditional cricket grounds, often there is the need to playing field for sport in post-apartheid South many backyards, hosting endless hours of cricket converting football, rugby pitches into a cricket venue. Iceland create a second square for 2nd or 3rd team fixtures to take Africa where there was a glaring lack of suitable practice for the next generation of cricket stars. Cricket for example developed a brand-new cricket ground (the pressure off the main square especially when adverse weather most northernly in the world) by preparing a firm, flat surface also impacts preparation. Flicx creates for you a portable and facilities in many communities. In the years since, Customer service is at the heart of our business then rolling the 2G Flicx Pitch out; whilst many other clubs in versatile second square at a fraction of the cost of an artificial thousands of pitches have been sent to all corners values and our small team will go above and Europe and the US frequently convert other sporting venues for pitch without being tied in permanently. If the groundsman of the globe with the star quality of the Flicx Pitch beyond to ensure all 2G Flicx Pitches are delivering cricket with our roll out wicket. Often facility owners / councils does not want their turf wicket used during training; again, will not want a concrete strip in the middle of a sports pitch due you have the flexibility to roll the Flicx Pitch over the top of being its versatility. Be it for adult or junior cricket, outstanding performance. You can contact us at to clashes with other sports users and do not want the grass main square to protect it ahead of the weekend’s games. hard ball, or soft ball, matches or training, outdoors any time with your questions and we hope you surface underneath damaged so again the 2G Flicx Pitch ticks or indoors, The Flicx pitch solution will help you … enjoy reading about the huge range of applications a lot of boxes in terms of getting multiple sports at one venue. The beauty and value for Southern Districts Cricket Club for example is that the Flicx Pitch does not impact the curators possible with the 2G Flicx Pitch as well as various pitch preparations. The used wicket alone is too soft for • ADD EXTRA CAPACITY. case studies, brilliant testimonials plus some of “Our 2G Flicx Pitch is really good. Our bowlers really like it batting, but the Flicx Pitch rolled out on top provides a firm, the stranger cricket matches that a Flicx Pitch has and we have achieved considerable success this season with flat surface and so is the best alternative for the club. • INCREASE PARTICIPATION. hosted! the bat. Playing on a Flicx Pitch is a really great and cost- effective option for us, and we are incredibly happy with the TO EXTEND THE SEASON • IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF YOUR Do get in touch. Thanks pitches performance” - Soundar Alagesan, CCB Bayern Bute Cricket Club have been using their 2G Flicx Pitch for MATCHES AND TRAINING AND THEREFORE many years to extend their season. Previously matches were PLAYER SKILLS. called off due to the vagaries of the Scottish weather but since CONVERTING OTHER GRASS PITCHES FOR CRICKET their 2G Flicx Pitch purchase, they have been able to fulfil • ATTRACT AND INSPIRE NEW PLAYERS. In schools where cricket ovals are at a premium, having the more matches and thus extend the season and get games of Kate Costin, flexibility to roll out a pitch to convert other sports pitches cricket on despite bad weather. Marketing and General Manager into an additional cricketing venue allows more players to • DEVELOP COMMUNITY CRICKET LINKS. [email protected] participate in cricket matches and training. CONVERTING PARKS AND OPEN SPACES “We’ve only two cricket squares so we use the Flicx mats to give Maximising green and open spaces in the community for cricket is another hugely valuable application of the 2G Flicx more boys the opportunity to play cricket. We also have lower- Pitch. Public parks now host cricket, whilst in urban areas, with ability, soft ball games on there to get more fixtures in. It’s all to green space at a premium, Flicx allows space to be prioritised increase participation.” – Dan Brown, Head of Cricket at UCS for cricket. “SPJCC now has six 2G Flicx Pitches which are helping to increase the standard of junior cricket games in Perth. 630 kids play at over 20 different grounds in the city with the Flicx Pitch rolled out. The Flicx pitch provides a stable, realistic cricket pitch surface for Juniors to play on. Every single park can, within fifteen to twenty minutes, be turned into a cricket pitch!” said a SPJCC representative. 2 3 CREATING OUTDOOR A BETTER STANDARD OF NETS & UTILISING INDOOR CRICKET MATTING Customers are increasingly using their 2G Flicx Pitch for indoor nets due to its excellent YOUR OUTFIELD performance and ease of use. Flicx pitches are quick and easy to roll out and back up and require minimal storage space. Traditional indoor cricket matting is very OUTDOOR CRICKET NETS HOSTING CRICKET FESTIVALS cumbersome and becomes wavy and worn quickly so needs replacing regularly. Indeed, As each 2G Flicx Match Pitch is supplied as two half players find this type of cricket matting unrealistic to match conditions … for bowlers pitch batting ends (or batting ends can be purchased as their line and length can be different as generally you get too much pace and bounce standalone products), the same 2G Flicx Pitch can be used to create additional net bays for training. Many schools on hard floors so for batters there is a disconnect in timings between indoor nets and the and clubs are creating extra practice facilities in this way. low, slow early season club wickets generally on offer. The 2G Flicx Pitch is different... Every use case, which customers take advantage of, gives additional value for money and more opportunities to play more cricket. With this method of creating extra nets, again TOP QUALITY INDOOR CRICKET MATTING the preparation is minimal especially on an outfield in good condition – the grass would just need to be cut short down to The 2G Flicx Pitch will enhance your indoor cricket experience Furthermore, the 2G Flicx Pitch does not corrugate or wave 15mm ahead of rolling out the Flicx mats. and provides a consistent surface suitable for all year-round so there is no movement or slide or requirement to tape the The final application we have seen with the 2G Flicx Pitch indoor training, practice, and instruction for players of all mat down. The Flicx roll out cricket mats can be put out by outside on grass has been hosting cricket festivals. In the levels of ability. Our 2G tile is of premium quality and the one person in a matter of minutes and are pitches should be same way described in the ground utilisation section, cricket surface is grippy yet soft so offers good bounce and carry stored upright on their end so will take up less than 50cm festivals can be hosted at clubs and schools including this indoors so no head height deliveries! For bowlers there is squared per roll in your storeroom. The same pitch that is used one pictured in partnership with Ketton CC. Kids can play realistic turn and seam movement whilst for batters the ball outdoors, can also be used to create two indoor strips with matches all day often bowling from one end which also comes onto the bat nicely, encouraging stroke play off the excellent performance whilst our coaching batting ends are means less time is wasted between overs and the players get front and back foot. The result is a much more realistic indoor used for player development drills developing both batting more chance to bat, bowl and field thus developing their nets and indoor training sessions.
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