Coaching our Juniors

For the Summer we are aiming to secure professional coaches to support our Team Managers and volunteers for the first 4 Friday evenings of the season. In addition our Team Managers at Under 9 and Under 15 have attained ECB Level 1 Coaching certification during the winter. Our coaching and development is led by Rod Berkeley. Rod played County Cricket at junior and colts level and played senior cricket for Farnham and Churt. He started coaching in 1970 and qualified as a senior and then Advanced Coach. He was appointed to ECB Staff Coach in 1989 and has since tutored and assessed for the Surrey County Board. He has coached a vast selection of both Senior and Junior cricketers including those of Test, County and Club standards.

Our coaches produce a programme for both our Summer and Winter sessions. Coaching sessions will start with a warm-up and comprise a mixture of technique demonstration and practice, skill and fitness games and practice matches.

Some coaching will be done using the nets (although net sessions will only be used as part of a coaching session). Players will be told in advance if we will be running net sessions the following week – parents/guardians are requested to ensure that players bring the necessary equipment (See Safety & Protective Equipment section of the information booklet) for those sessions.

Throughout all the coaching sessions we will cover the following cricket skills, particularly with U9, U11 and U13 age groups:

•Fielding – techniques of retrieving, intercept and throwing

• Batting – repertoire of defensive and attacking strokes

• Bowling – bowling action plus introduction to spin and swing bowling

In addition, we will cover the basics of fielding positions, umpiring signals, laws of the game, club and cricket general knowledge and history.