I had a couple of interesting conversations with parents over the weekend.
One, with the mother of a young player who really wasn’t seeing the connection between the skills we practice and the wider game of cricket.
Another, with a dad from another group, who commented on how the players were starting to show good game sense. We play a lot of games with the latter group — they have been the “guinea pigs” for the “play-review-play-review…” sessions, in fact.
Could it be that what we are assuming too much of young players who don’t actually know that much about the game, or their role in it? Very few play in the park; I doubt any of them ever play any street cricket, or backyard.
The only time they play cricket is during our coaching sessions.
Do we need to include (even) more gameplay in the “curriculum”?
And if we do, what is the smallest small-sided game that we could play to introduce more “game awareness”?
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