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[Dan W]

So...Picture the scene, I have a new house, with a new large garden (turfed!)...What's the minimum (ish) ease at which I can build in a (maintenance free/low) outdoor net for the odd session with a bowling machine? Are there any online guides?


Seen some fairly competent netting suppliers around and about, I'm more concerned about a decent surface?


Thanks all in advance


Dan

[HallamKeeper]

It would be interesting if anyone does a surface that replicates a typical low English wicket. I do wonder if bowling indoors helps many bowlers with their lengths if the short ball isn't punished the same as outdoors.

[Buzz]

What is under your turfed "lawn"? You might want to check so you don't get loads of indentations etc if the gound is too soft.
I might be tempted to see of I could get a second hand batting cage of something like that.

[iand123]

Would this http://www.ramcricket.co.uk/collections/portable-cricket-nets/products/home-ground-gs5-batting-net not save you money and construction cost compared to a permanent structure for the netting?

[six and out]

i think the net part of it would be the easy bit - either by buying a second hand cage (as suggested) or building a permanent one - one of our club's old nets was built out of old scaffolding pipes got free from one of the members who was a builder!

the difficult bit will definitely be getting a surface that will be worth practicing on and will last.

i have seen somewhere a sort of roll out matting used for colts cricket - whether that would be suitable not sure.

[six and out]

i have seen somewhere a sort of roll out matting used for colts cricket - whether that would be suitable not sure.

This is the matting i have seen - a bit expensive 

https://www.3dgroundequipment.co.uk/flicx-junior-match-pitch-1495.html

[Dan W]

What is under your turfed "lawn"? You might want to check so you don't get loads of indentations etc if the gound is too soft.
I might be tempted to see of I could get a second hand batting cage of something like that.

Erm...soil, I guess?! (I get there's different types )


I was assuming that 'a' base  needs putting down (before the artificial mat), though whether that could be some sort of easy-to-install decking (fingers crossed!), or more realistically (and sadly prohibitively expensive) professionally laid concrete/tarmac?

[Seniorplayer]

I think the only way to avoid intentions in your lawn without an aggregate base is if your lawn as clay under the soil as white clay drys rock hard the downside is it doesn't drain well

[Buzz]

The flicx matt is really good, you won't need a full pitch length so it might not be that expensive.
I might save up for a length of the matt and that net for my garden...

[JB]

One of our lads left the club to go to a larger club where he was coaching a youth side. They had a flicx matt and he wasn't impressed by it at all.

The best thing to do is dig out the soil from the garden, should be around 200-300mm deep. Timber edging to the perimeter fixed to timber pegs. Use type 1X or type 3 sub base for the base, 150-200mm deep and compact it well with a vibrating plate. You will then want to lay approx 40mm of a 2-6mm graded gravel up to the level of the timber edgings. This should also be well compacted, you could screed this layer off the edgings (provided you have put the edgings in level) the mat can then be laid over the timber edgings and fixed onto them to keep it in place.

I'm sure that the depth/material used for the top surface (under the mat) makes differences in the playability of the wicket. I'll see if i've got any files from previous jobs on my computer

[GoodLeave]

Would this http://www.ramcricket.co.uk/collections/portable-cricket-nets/products/home-ground-gs5-batting-net not save you money and construction cost compared to a permanent structure for the netting?

Great spot this, was about to recommend the same net from AllRounder, but this is cheaper.

If you're going to go as far as concreting your garden, why not go all out and build an indoor net and charge us idiots to come and use it?