The Teesra

Month: July 2017

  • Game Sense: Cricket

    Now this, from the Drowning in the Shallows blog by @imsporticus, just might be the model for future coaching programmes. Strongly in the “game sense” mould, with the players taking a lot of responsibility for their own learning.

    Not that the coach gets to sit down and do nothing for an hour – there will be a lot of obseqrvation and analysis, followed by questioning and appropriate feedback; there will be an increased need for imaginative game design, with appropriate progressions planned.

    But the potential upside, of developing thinking cricketers, must surely be worth the effort.

  • My summer in shirts

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    I seem to have worn a lot of shirts this summer! 😉🏏

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  • On excellence – the quest for the perfect outswinger.

    Back in the days when I played regularly on a Saturday afternoon, there was a standing joke among my team mates – that I was more interested in bowling the perfect outswinger than in taking a wicket.

    And when I coach seam bowlers, once I am happy that their action is reasonably sound and repeatable, I will move on quickly to what might be considered by some to be post-graduate deliveries – variations in swing and pace – rather than drilling line and length.

    I strongly believe that the role of the coach is to encourage excellence and the ambition to aspire to the extraordinary.

    Always – what does “better” look like, and how can I be better?

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