Fascinating post from Harry Curtin, on Substack, on how he modified his school rugby coaching sessions to focus on promoting connectedness within a team environment and to move from having the coach explicitly coaching to allowing the players (collaboratively) to learn.
And it set me trying to think of a similar approach in cricket.
(more…)Played my first game this year for the 3rd XI yesterday.
Batted OK until I missed a straight grubber that bounced for a second time just before hitting the stumps… Bowled one decent over, then got hit for 4 boundaries (16 runs out of an opposition score of 120/6 in 45 overs).
And was advised by our umpire to “get back in the nets”. His exact words — “I thought you were a bowling coach!”.
With due respect to Vikash, I wonder if I actually need more net bowling. More important, perhaps, for an occasional bowler, which is what I have become, might be to remember what I do when I bowl well, and do that again.
(more…)I have posted previously about my experience coaching with neurodivergent players, so I was very interested to read Dr Josephine Perry‘s ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success.
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The Teesra 