Development Cricket Structure
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 …
Practice As You Play
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 …
Improving Your Practice
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, …
Coaching Structure
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 …
White Boards
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 …
Have A Plan
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 …
Umpiring and Scoring
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 …
Selecting The Right Captain
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 …
Drills and Warm Up
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 …
Statistics
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 % …