NBCC Winter Nets
We have secured two weekly slots in the Indoor Nets at Edgbaston for the 2024/25 off season. The first session, the NBCC Winter Nets, will start on 13th October and …
Mixed Ability Club Net
Club Net this week, so with no specific focus on development, we will be practising the skills we have learnt so far this winter. We will start promptly at 11am …
Focus on Fielding
Fielding: we all spend more time doing it than we do batting or bowling, but it gets very little focus during nets in recreational cricket, and is often overlooked by …
Focus on Run Rate
I can hardly remember a game last season where ‘our’ innings wasn’t in effect ‘over’ within the first ten overs. Be it setting a target or chasing a target we …
Bat & Bowl In Pairs In Nets
It has never really made sense to me that whilst we bat and bowl in pairs in a game, we have a “every person for themself” approach to nets, and …
Rotating Strike
The net this week is for the First XI squad and those from the and is the start of the “second half” of the Indoor Nets, which will see quite …
Training Buddy
A key focus of my own coaching is equipping players to train and develop their games in their own time as well at formal net sessions, and without doubt having …
Use of Video
There is a lot of coaching equipment available these days, most of it very reasonably priced, and it is well worth you and buddy/training partner looking to invest in some, …
Indoor Cricket
I have never understood why Indoor Cricket isn’t a larger part of the Coaches ‘tool bag’, or indeed clubs don’t use it more than ‘traditional nets’. Yes. It can be …
Specific Drills
An area I am really focussing on with all my coaching this year is to train players to practice better. One way I am doing this is by scheduling sessions, …