The Teesra

Category: All Stars

  • Teesra Talks – All Stars Cricket

    The second edition of Teesra Talks : All Stars Cricket

    Teesra Talks is hosted on anchor.fm, and will be available as a subscription podcast from various distribution sites soon.

  • All Stars Summer – the good, the bad and the ugly

    We finished our first All Stars Cricket programme at the Club last week.  A lot of fun, and a lot of learning, for All Stars, Activator and Centre Manager.

    https://twitter.com/oakfieldparkscc/status/890145143478784000

    Did we get everything right, first time?

    No…but there was more than enough that went well to make us want to run All Stars Cricket again in 2018.

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  • The case against All Stars Cricket

    I posted recently on All Stars Cricket (ASC), and why I believe that the new entry-level programme from the ECB will be good for the game.

    I expect to hear soon that one of the Clubs where I coach has signed up to be an ASC Centre – I have volunteered to help out (even, perhaps, to take a lead for the first year), until the project attracts new volunteers (someone has to deliver that first session in mid-May).

    But it is fair to say that the response from the wider cricket community to ASC has been mixed – mostly positive (that I have seen or heard), but by no means universally so.

    I wanted to take a look at the case against.  Not (mostly) to dismiss it, but rather in the spirit of the”premortem” – if, in an imagined future, the programme has failed, what were the causes; what else could we have done pre-launch, to prevent that failure.

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