During my school years I always wondered why it was that some kids were good at most sports whether it be cricket, football, tennis, hockey, badminton etc. I believe that this may have been due to them having further developed coordination [...]
Children don’t have the same ability as adults when it comes to planning for success. I wanted to emphasise the point that we must take a different approach when coaching kids cricket. Here are some tips that may help kids to realise their potential [...]
Balance is a key skill that coaches should aim to improve in their players. It is one of the essentials that were discussed in the post named Kids Cricket and the LTAD Fundamentals Stage. The LTAD cricket model suggests that the best time to develop balance is between the ages of 6-9 (boys) or 6-8 (girls) [...]
To become a top cricketing nation we must rely on a steady stream of enthusiastic and well-nurtured young players. But how can this be achieved? How can we encourage kids to play cricket? How can we keep them interested and how can we get the best from them? [...]
As long as a person has a genuine interest in cricket then there is nothing stopping them from becoming a coach. You don’t have to have been the world’s greatest player in order to make a difference, I have worked with a Level 1 coach who had never played competitive cricket in his life. The important thing was that he wanted to help coach cricket and he took the time to go on a course [...]
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