Photos from Women’s County Vitality T20 – Kent, Warwickshire & Middlesex, 23rd June 2019

Some pictures from the Vitality T20 fixtures at County Beckenham, yesterday, featuring hosts Kent, Birmingham Bears & Middlesex.

A great day – how can this be the final season for the Women’s County Championship?

More pictures below.

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Teesra Talks — Schools competitions: caring & sharing

Three schools comps in 7 days — nearly 300 children, rain, threat of thunder…and a lot of fun!

Schools competitions

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

In the nettles. And other thoughts on backyard cricket rules.

Telephone call with the manager of one of the junior sections I coach. Two close games at the weekend, but in both we had lost by narrow margins after missing out on a lot of legside singles.

Cricket coaches – a question – can you recommend any games or drills to encourage batters to take singles, especially from deliveries on leg stump and slightly wider?
Our boys refuse to play a stroke and hope for a wide…some get called, many don’t.
— Andrew Beaven (@TheTeesra) June 12, 2019

I received a lot of interesting replies to this tweet — targets to hit in drills, incentives for playing a stroke, penalties for not playing a stroke.

My own preference is to utilise some form of games-based approach, but with constraints for the players to adapt to.

So — the Teesra presents “the legside single game” aka “in the nettles”.

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