Line and Length for Junior Bowlers: Building Accuracy
Ask a junior pace bowler what they want to improve and most will say speed. Ask their coach and the answer is usually different: hit the same spot more often.…
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Moving to a Hard Ball: Helping Juniors Build Confidence
For plenty of young cricketers, the first session with a hard ball feels very different from everything before it. The ball comes faster, it makes a louder sound on the…
Front Foot or Back Foot: How Juniors Learn to Judge Length
Every parent has seen it. A young batter takes a big stride forward to a ball that bounces much shorter, or stays back on a delivery that needed a step.…
Fielding Basics for Juniors: Catching, Stopping and Throwing
Ask most juniors what they love about cricket and they will say batting or bowling. Fielding rarely makes the list, yet it is where children touch the ball most often…
Wicketkeeping Basics for Juniors: What Parents Should Know
Most junior teams find their wicketkeeper the same way. Someone is asked at the first training session, nobody else puts a hand up, and a ten year old is handed…
Filming Your Child’s Cricket: A Practical Guide for Parents
Your child has been told the same thing for six weeks. Head falling over. Front arm dropping. Not getting to the pitch of the ball. They nod, they agree, they…
How Representative Cricket Actually Works in Victoria
Parents rarely ask it directly, but it sits underneath a lot of conversations at training. How does a child get from a suburban Saturday morning to something more serious? Who…
Cricket in the Heat: What Every Parent Should Know Before Summer
Families prepare for a cricket season by buying gear, sorting out registration and working out training nights. Very few prepare for heat, which is the one thing guaranteed to affect…
Indoor vs Outdoor Cricket Training: What Each One Actually Develops
When families ask about indoor cricket, they are usually asking one of two quite different questions without realising it. The first is about indoor training: practising in nets under a…
Running Between the Wickets: Why Every Ball Counts More in Junior Cricket
Here is something about Australian junior cricket that changes how a young batter should think, and that a lot of families have never had explained. In the modified junior formats,…