Interesting conversation with a couple of parents after our last coaching session before Christmas with one of their sons. “My son annoys me so much – his grip is so low on the bat handle, and he won’t change it.” [An acute, and accurate technical observation.] – can he hit the ball? “Yes” – consistently, and …
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Coaching the old-fashioned way…not so old-fashioned, after all!
I recently picked up a copy of The Oxford Pocket Book of Cricket Coaching, by D.C.H. Townsend (Oxford University & England), first published in 1953, with a second impression in 1955. Not surprisingly, the book, written after the first M.C.C. Coaching Conference, in December 1951, describes a fairly formal and traditional description of the key techniques of …
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Am I a coach? Or a bus?
The only use for a coach is to get the players to the ground! – Shane Warne It certainly sounds like a Warne quote, although I haven’t managed to track down the original, yet. And, as with so many Warne sledges, there is an underlying truth in this statement, one that he probably did not intend. As …
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