On Monday evenings I coach a promising young player. He tries to batter almost every ball I throw to him, generally successfully. Drives, pulls, lap sweeps from outside off, reverse sweeps.
Yet when he gets a ball just a fraction outside leg stump, he shoulders arms and refuses to play a shot. (more…)
Fascinating picture, courtesy of theguardian.com, of what is claimed to be the world’s largest cricket lesson, taking place at the Sydney Cricket Ground last week.
Sport picture of the day: the world’s largest cricket lesson https://t.co/AXpCqSCjxJ
— Andrew Beaven (@TheTeesra) December 5, 2016
600 players, all lined up on their cones, ready to bowl the ball backwards and forwards with their partners.
What’s not to like?
Perhaps the number of players standing still? And the time taken to set up the guide ropes, and the cones?
Players who might prefer to be playing the game? And coaches who could have been facilitating game-based learning?
(more…)On Saturday I attended an ECB CPD workshop, Training & Interventions for Young People & Adults (YPA).
As part of the workshop, we each had to devise a training intervention. I came up with this – derived from the jail-break cricket game.
For a group of U17s, moving from 20 over to 40 over (or longer) format; challenged by the need to bat for longer periods of time without sacrificing scoring opportunities.
Batting in pairs, batters have a limited number of “lives”; lose them all, and the innings is over; gain more lives by hitting the ball to a designated target zone (analogous to the JBZ). (more…)
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