Category: representative

  • End of term fun — scenarios

    We finished our (half-) term programme with an under11 group at the weekend, with a session of game-like scenarios.

    Perhaps a stretch for some of them, but after working with most of the group since last October I wanted to help them put into context some of the skills & techniques we have covered.

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  • Holiday camps — turning long days into learning opportunities

    Over the Easter holidays I coached on a couple of holiday camps. Good fun, but quite hard work.

    For coaches and players.

    Six hour days are long, not only for the younger groups. How often does a 16 year old get to play cricket all day? With the proliferation of short-form (not a bad thing, of itself) even a 40-over game is the exception. Yet the coaches are charged with engaging the players for a similar length of time, or longer.

    I wonder if we could develop a narrative to run through the day? Perhaps by linking to a day’s match play. And putting the skills we coach into context.

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  • Specifying information— what’s that all about, then?

    I missed this podcast from @ShakeyWaits last year.

    And, as a coach who has struggled with the concept of “specifying information” that was a bad miss, because Rob answers so many of my questions!

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