Would your team know what to do after a sudden collapse of wickets during an innings?
To help your players regain their focus and to steady the ship after a quick succession of lost wickets, this session replicates the pressure batters experience in a game situation.
Scoring singles is the easiest low risk way of keeping the pressure off a new batter. Singles will help both the player and your team, getting some much needed runs on the board whilst also calming everyone down.
By putting your batters under pressure you can challenge them to think carefully about their shot selection - encouraging them to play tactically, take their time and, most importantly, not panic when first at the wicket!
August is when seasons are decided, and most club games are lost chasing rather than setting. Give your batters a framework for the chase and you win the close ones.
Green July pitches and a shiny Dukes mean the ball is talking. Here is how to coach your batters to survive the moving ball, trust their defence, and cash in once the shine has gone.
A bowling change can dismantle a partnership, halt a run surge, or hand the match back to the batting side. This article explores how modern captains use match phases, matchup data, and rhythm signals to time their changes, with a practical framework coaches can use to develop tactical thinking in young captains at club and age-group level.