NBCC Winter Nets
We have secured a weekly slot in the Indoor Nets at Edgbaston for the 2024/25 off season. The NBCC Winter Nets will start on 13th October and run weekly at …
We have secured a weekly slot in the Indoor Nets at Edgbaston for the 2024/25 off season. The NBCC Winter Nets will start on 13th October and run weekly at …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
No doubt over the winter many clubs will be discussing, developing and fine tuning their approach to Development Cricket, and it will be the same here at NBCC, only as …
Hardly a net goes by without me smiling (inwardly) at the Jekyll and Hyde nature of the majority of cricketers. “Last 6, 15 to win” to a batter who has …
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, …
Another topic touched on by Chris on his personal blog and one that should be read alongside the Development Cricket post. Think the first thing to say is that if …
As a Coach I love it when a player turns up to their training sessions with a white board, ideally two! Personally when I net I like to have two …
Do yourself, and your coach, a favour and have a plan! You will get so much more out of your training if you have specific goals, and your coach will …
Have never really understood while nets focus on batting, bowling, from time to time fielding but never umpiring and scoring. Players have always been required to ‘take and end’ and …
I have captained quite a few teams in my time: Boys Brigade, School, Club and College and being honest it had very little to do with being a good captain …
Can’t say I have much luck with this one, primarily because neither teams or players have regular pre game warm ups. But one (good) thing about being old is that …
Something I am fond of doing with my coaching is asking players about their net statistics! Bowlers: what % of your balls does the batter have to play? what % …
Coaching equipment is affordable, available and most clubs have an ample supply of it, but I am always a little bemused how few players invest in any coaching kit of …
Bit of a strange one this, but if you can I suggest you spend as much time wearing and using the kit and equipment that you will use in a …