Backyard cricket has now moved into the 21st century thanks to local inventor Jon Rutgers in Busselton.

Backyard Bash – bringing backyard cricket into the 21st century: Comprising an Electronic Scoreboard, LED’s, SFX and Bluetooth connectivity.

No more cheap wickets, make do wickets out of bins or painted on to the fence. Soon backyards of Australia will have wickets with an electronic speaker with sound effects, a scoreboard, Bluetooth connectivity and 48 LED lights.

The idea

Like many Aussies, Jon grew up playing countless hours of backyard cricket with family and friends. The games were always centered around having fun but they were inevitably competitive as well. The same problem would always surface “how do we keep score?”

Keeping count in your head, using a blackboard and chalk, paper and pen and even scratching’s in the dirt. While can be effective it cAnd as you know these methods are clumsy, inaccurate, time-consuming and would always lead to arguments. Well Backyard Bash has solved this problem forever.

The result

To help get these bad boys into production and in the backyard of kids (and big kids) all around Australia help Jon on his Kickstarter campaign.

For more information visit kickstarter.com.