I have been delivering an after-school club this term. As happened last year, we have been evicted from the newly built sports hall to accommodate exams. Unlike last time, we have been able to carry on with the weekly club, but in the much smaller and very crowded old sports hall. So small and crowded, …
Category Archives: practice
Simple net game
Here is a simple game to play in the nets, to encourage batters to do more than “just have a hit”. Each batter faces a round of bowling, one ball from each bowler. First round — “have a look” — batter is challenged to leave as many deliveries as possible (1 run) or, if he …
Follow-up: The coaches toolkit revisited (3): deliberate practice vs. deliberate play
Many thanks to @ImSporticus for including this post in his weekly round-up of re-posts — it generated quite a few comments. This, from Phil Kearney: “As a means to move away from a “versus” mentality, I really like Whitehead’s description of freedom (play) and discipline (practice) as “…two rhythms, now one of which is louder, …
The Teesra 