Calling All Coaches!

Please find below an outline of some of the coaching guidelines employed by the coaching team at Elite Cricket. Good luck and happy coaching!

Macro not micro:

• Fix the big picture (balance and alignment) and the details will fall into place
• Bigger awarenesses are better and easier for players to understand

Skill Development Focus:

• Focus on the process of skill development rather than the result, develop the skills and the result will come
• Challenge at all levels

Maximise Participation:

• Better for players due to greater involvement and more opportunity to improve
• Easier to manage, particularly in 1 coach to 12 player sessions

Organisation:

• Have a plan. Objectives, content, time, facilities and equipment should be factored into the planning of a session
• Seek a balance between skill development, games, nets, centre wicket and fun
• Utilise variety; everybody gets bored of the same thing in particular nets!

Enjoyment:

• Make it fun, a games focus is great for all players and helps build game sense and match awareness

Let the players play:

• A necessary component of learning and developing skills is making mistakes have confidence in your players by allowing them to make mistakes, rather than a focus on eliminating them (it doesn’t happen)
• Let them make mistakes and credit the players with the ability to identify and self-correct any mistakes they make, the mistake you identify will give you ideas for the content of your next sessions
• As a coach you need to be patient and skill don’t happen overnight, a skill based focus, a patient approach will maximise your contribution to player development

Cheers

Mark