My least favourite All Stars activity…it ain’t PEAS, is it?

Delivering face-to-face training for All Stars & Dynamos Activators, yesterday, and came across my least favourite All Stars activity — diamond cricket.

Diamond Cricket; ECB, All Stars Cricket

IMO There really is so much to dislike about this game, and little to recommend it.

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Coaching younger children — challenges, opportunities, solutions

I have just begun the new season of training for National Programmes Activators in metropolitan Essex, so I have been thinking about the challenges of working with younger children (8s & under for All Stars).

There are challenges, but I do believe that there are plenty of available solutions, and opportunities for coaches who work with the youngest children.

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The coaches’ Duty of Care — to the player, and to the game

For me, coaches’ Duty of Care has two components — to the player and to the wider game.

And, whilst the former is (correctly) included in coach education, I wonder if the latter — duty to the game — is as recognised anywhere near as widely.

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