To Chelmsford, for a seminar on how to coach wicket keepers with Barry Hyam, Performance Manager at Essex CCC and Lead Wicket Keeping Coach for England Women’s team (and half a dozen other titles – he is a very busy man). Barry talked about the modern way of taking the ball – when the keeper takes …
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Don’t do what I do, do what I say…
To indoor nets last Sunday – my first time as a player for two or three years, and hopefully a preliminary to playing a few games in the summer. Remembering the tenets of “purposeful practice”, and everything I say to our Colts when I am coaching, I set myself a couple of very specific goals …
Coaching “intent”
Over the course of the winter indoor season, our Colts’ teams have twice been turned over by an opposition side fielding two or more spinners. Not unlike England against Pakistan, in fact. There was no suggestion that they were undone by “mystery” spinners, nor even by bowling that was exceptionally good. They simply did not know how to deal with …
The Teesra 