GENERAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

  1. All persons entering the ground, and the right to remain within the ground are subject to the Ground Regulations. Essex Cricket (The Club) reserve the right to remove from the Ground any person who refuses to comply with them.
  2. Admission is subject to a visitor presenting a valid ticket, Essex Cricket Membership card, staff pass, contractor authorisation or another authorised credential. It is the responsibility of Members and ticket holders to scan in and out of the ground, especially if they intend to return in the same day. Re-admission is not permitted at Vitality Blast fixtures, the Club reserve the right to amend this regulation for certain events.
  3. The sale of Memberships and tickets are subject to terms and conditions. Please visit www.essexcricket.org.uk for further information.
  4. All spectators must comply with instructions and directions issued by Club officials, stewards and/ or police officers.
  5. Anyone attending the ground should expect to be searched on entry. Please follow the guidance given by our stewards and security staff. Please note wherever practical, a member of staff of the same sex as the person to be searched will conduct these types of searches. If a member of staff of the same sex is not readily available searching can be carried out by a person of any sex.
  6. All matches are played in accordance with the rules and regulations of both Essex Cricket and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
  7. All visitors under the age of 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Children aged under 18 months old can enter the ground for free of charge but require a ticket, which can be obtained from the Membership & Ticketing Office.
  8. NO ALCOHOL is permitted to be brought into the ground for T20 games or matches played under international regulations.
  9. ALCOHOL may be brought into the ground for County Championship and One Day Cup matches, limited to one bottle of wine (max 750ml and decanted into a plastic container) or 4 cans or bottles of beer/lager/cider per person (max 500ml) or two cans of pre-mixed aperitifs/spirits (max 330ml).
  10. Blocks 30 and 31 are designated Family areas for all matches and a junior must be in the group to book these Blocks 28 and 29 is open to all spectators but are strictly alcohol-free stands.
  11. The Ambassador Cruise Line Ground is a glass-free venue with no importation allowed at any time.
  12. Only flags and banners related to cricket are allowed to be brought into the Ground. Flags or banners containing poles or sticks will not be permitted into the ground.
  13. Visitors must not wear or otherwise display offensive, political or commercial signage or logos as determined by the Club in its discretion.
  14. No animals other than assistance dogs are allowed into the Ground.
  15. Smoking and vaping is not permitted in seating areas and only in designated smoking or vaping areas.
  16. Fireworks, flares, firearms, weapons, any article that is hazardous or illegal or any device or object which in the ground’s reasonable opinion has the potential to be dangerous, hazardous, cause injury, harm or public nuisance are not permitted.
  17. No metal tipped umbrellas, metal cutlery or breakable kitchenware can be brought into the ground.
  18. The throwing or discharging of missiles is forbidden.
  19. Spectators are not allowed to encroach onto the field of play or to interfere with the normal course of play in any way.
  20. Standing in tiered seating areas is forbidden, except for access to and from seated areas.
  21. Phone calls should not be made in seated areas of the
  22. Bare torsos are not permitted in the Doug Insole Pavilion, in the Members’ benches or the hospitality areas of the ground.
  23. Any Visitor who is considered by the Club, its nominated stewards and / or staff, to be intoxicated or affected by illicit drugs (excluding prescription medication) in any way may, in the Club’s sole discretion, be subject to ejection from the Ground.
  24. The Club reserves the right to eject or to cause the ejection of anyone who, within the ground, is considered to be behaving in a manner likely:
    1. to bring the Club or the game into disrepute; or
    2. to interfere with the comfort, enjoyment or safety of other spectators; or
    3. to impede in any way the activities of the Club, including the progress or conduct of any match;
    4. to be in breach of any of the official ground regulations.

  25. Visitors shall be responsible for ensuring their own safety from risks involved in attending a cricket match or event or being admitted to a cricket ground and agree that they shall be solely responsible for any injuries sustained to or losses incurred by them, whether financial or otherwise.
  26. The Club accepts no responsibility for loss or damage to property or injury to spectators whilst they are on the club’s premises.
  27. CCTV cameras are in use around the ground and the Club may itself use or pass to the police or any other relevant authority, any recordings for use in any investigation or proceeding. All visitors consent to the recording of their image.
  28. Personal information collected by the Club shall be processed by Essex Cricket in accordance with Essex Cricket’s Privacy Notice, which can be found at org.uk/privacy and applicable data protection legislation and regulations relating to the processing of personal information and privacy.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Essex Cricket is committed to promoting and respecting diversity and equal opportunities and expects all Visitors to share that commitment and comply with the ECB Anti-Discrimination Code, as may be amended from time to time, a copy of which may be found at www.ecb.co.uk/about/policies/anti-discrimination.

Admission and the right to remain in the ground is strictly on the condition that spectators shall not commit any of the following :

  1. The use of any racial comment or racial chanting is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
  2. In relation to the cricket match taking place at the ground spectators are not permitted to use a mobile telephone, tablet, laptop, computer or any other kind of device to either:

    (i) communicate or in any way transmit any form of commentary, data or other material, for any kind of betting or corrupt or unlawful purpose.;
    or
    (ii) conduct continuous betting trading activity’

  3. Any Visitor who is reasonably suspected by the Club, or its appointed nominee’s opinion, including but not limited for such purposes to the anti-corruption officials and any other representatives of ECB) of acting in breach of regulation 2, during any cricket match unconditionally acknowledges, accepts and agrees that:
  • such Visitor must, upon request by the Club (or its appointed nominees), provide their name and address and an explanation for their suspicious conduct (including full details of the nature of their suspicious communications);
  • such person may be photographed and/or filmed by the Club (or its appointed nominees); and
  • any such names, addresses, photographs and films collected by the Club (or its appointed nominees) pursuant to this Regulation may be shared between each of the ECB and the first-class county cricket clubs and relevant official cricket authorities and the police and any relevant crime-prevention authorities, for the purposes of any criminal investigations or proceedings, and/or in connection with any investigation into a potential breach of domestic or international cricket anti-corruption rules and/or to enable to enable the Club, the ECB and the first-class county cricket clubs to give reciprocal effect to ban entry.

The above regulations are issued alongside ECB regulations and guidelines.

The Ground Authority, Stewards, Security Staff or Police will ask any offender contravening the Ground Regulations to leave the ground and they will not be re-admitted and could be liable for prosecution.

REFUND POLICY

Refund of admission charges will not be made, unless otherwise advised at the time of ticket purchase. In certain circumstances and at the discretion of the management of Essex Cricket, rain check tickets may be issued in the event of there being very little play on any one day. Some matches, under the jurisdiction of the ECB, may be covered by ‘Rain Check Schemes’, details of which will be printed on the admission ticket.