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PROJECT

INDOOR CRICKET FACILITY AT

GREY COLLEGE, BLOEMFONTEIN

Perfect Bounce Consultants recently received a gold award in the 2022 SALI Awards
of Excellence for the installation of an indoor cricket facility at Grey College in
Bloemfontein. The project was entered in the category of Specialised Construction.

Project Team
Client: Client: Grey College, Bloemfontein
Landscape Construction and Installation: Perfect Bounce Consultants

T he company specialises in the
installation
and
construction,
maintenance of sports facilities
such as turf cricket nets, artificial cricket
nets, turf cricket pitches, and tennis and
netball courts, amongst other things.
Having previously undertaken other work
for Grey College, Perfect Bounce visited
them to determine the best area available
for the indoor facility they wanted to
build. In turn, Grey College visited Perfect
Bounce in Cape Town to see their various
indoor installations and to determine
which carpets would be best suited to
their new cricket facility.

In terms of the brief, Grey College
supplied the sizes which would be
available to build their facility. The design
was done with the aim of: Grey College students practising their bowling and batting skills
• accommodating as many teams as
possible practising at the same time;
• taking safety for the bowler’s grip into
account;
• ensuring the most natural pitch of the
ball;
• ensuring that the nets could be moved
away to practice field work indoors as
well.

Perfect Bounce Consultants supplied and
installed the indoor nets and carpets,
using white indoor cricket nets, an oval
carpet with silica sand for the batting
surface and 45mm artificial grass with The six-lane indoor cricket facility
rubber infill for the bowling area.

The 40mm mesh, white indoor cricket
nets are made of 4mm polyester twine.

The oval carpet consists of a tufted, sand-
dressed synthetic grass with straight
stitch pattern. It is olive green in colour,
with white line markings.

The 45mm artificial grass is a tufted sand,
rubber filled, synthetic grass carpet with
a straight stitch pattern. It is duo-tone in The white mesh nets are made of polyester twine Bowling machine lane at the indoor cricket facility

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