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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

To date Mark has amassed extensive professional experience as an elite player with the Tasmanian, the Prime Ministers XI, Australian XI and Australia ‘A’ teams and an array of clubs in the United Kingdom and New South Wales. Mark’s elite level cricket experience is complemented by a Bachelor’s degree in physical education, which has enabled him to apply his knowledge of bio mechanics, skill acquisition, sport psychology and learning methodologies to his own career as a professional player and coach. His coaching credentials and expertise have been further enhanced through the attainment of his Level 3 cricket coaching accreditation from Cricket Australia. Mark has a Master’s degree in Business Administration, from Southern Cross University, Australia.

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