Table Cricket

Table Cricket brings cricket to everyone. It’s inclusive, easy to deliver, and encourages teamwork and respect. For pupils with additional needs, it provides an equal opportunity to take part and shine. For others, it offers a new way to experience cricket in a fun, fast-paced, and supportive environment

The sport is played on a table tennis table (although it can be adapted) and encourages teamwork, communication, decision-making, and understanding of cricket’s spirit of fairness and respect. It also provides opportunities for leadership, officiating, and scoring roles — ideal for young leaders in schools.

Table cricket offers a competitive pathway and an opportunity for young people with disabilities to represent their school through national competitions, which are run at a county and regional level, culminating in a national final at Lord’s Cricket Ground.

Just like in regular cricket, fielders must be carefully positioned around the tennis table to prevent runs or to get the batter out. Teams of six take it in turn to bowl or bat, with the bowler using a ramp to deliver the ball (either a regular ball that runs true or a weighted one that swings around is best) - the batter scores by hitting the ball into the scoring zones, avoiding the fielders if they can.

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Table Cricket is a game for everyone — accessible for pupils with physical, sensory, or learning impairments, yet flexible enough to engage pupils in a fun, team-based activity. Due to its inclusive nature, pupils of all ages can play, whether it be game play, competition or fun at a festival.

Equipment needed

• Table Tennis Table (or similar flat surface)
• Side and end panels
• Bowling ramp (launcher)
• Bat
• 2 x balls (1x bias/swing, 1x standard)
• Tape
• Scoresheet
• Bats
• Balls
• Tabletop ramp
• Side panels
• Table tennis table
• Fielding panels