VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 COACHES CORNER OCTOBER, 2015 NEWSLETTER New Coach and plenty of change in NSW Events in Cricket NSW: With the appointment of U17-19 Coach Beau Casson. along with a coaching Trevor Bayliss, former NSW Beau is a former Western resume consisting of U17 Male National Carnival, and Sydney Sixers BBL coach, Tasmania, Victoria, Brisbane— September 28- to the role of Head Coach of Melbourne Stars and Dehli England, Trent Johnston has Daredevils. October 8 taken over the reigns of the Blues. Matador Cup—Sydney, Octo- ber 5 to October 25 His appointment comes after experiences as Captain Coach Women’s National Cricket of Ireland, Assistant Coach of the Blues, Assistant Coach of League—October and No- The Sydney Sixers and Head vember Coach of the NSW U19 Metro team in 2014/15. Australia, New South Wales U15 National Female Champi- and Australian Test spinner. Trent has a wonderful resume onships, Hobart, Nov 25-Dec 1 of playing and coaching experi- For Regional areas, two new With the commencement of ence, from across the globe. personnel have been the new WBBL, the Sydney U19 Male National Carnival, Sixers have appointed Ben However, for those who do not appointed — Pathway Adelaide, Nov 30-Dec 10 Sawyer as their new coach. know, he played his early Managers for Southern and cricket for Campbelltown, Northern NSW. Ben has been involved with Mosman and North Sydney in the NSW Breakers side as the grade competition, as well We congratulate Mark well as NSW pathways as representing NSW from teams and the Southern Inside this issue: Cameron (Northern) and 1999/2000. Stars. Greg McLay (Southern) for their appointments and wish The Sydney Thunder have Cricket NSW Coach Profile 2 also announced Joanne them all the best in their Broadbent as their head new roles. coach for the new WBBL Drill of the Month 2 season. The Sydney Sixers have a new coach to welcome in Joanne is our featured in Article of the Month — The 3 the form of Greg Shipperd. this issue of the Cricket Modern Coach NSW Coach Development Greg has experience as a Newsletter on page 2. Useful website 4 player for both Western Trent is assisted by Pathways Australia and Tasmania Dates for the Calendar 4 Article of the Month — The Modern Coach The article this month—The Modern Coach—looks at the many options, strategies and techniques open to the modern day coach. Some of the main points look at how to prepare your cricketers and the importance of adapting your coaching to different ability groups. (see page 3) Page 2 COACHES CORNER NEWSLETTER Coach Profile of the Month — Joanne Broadbent Joanne is a left hand bat and Papua New Guinea as one of left arm medium bowler who the highlights of her coaching boasts a highest test score of career. 200 and an ODI best figures of 5/10. When we had a chance to catch up with Joanne, we Since finishing her playing career, Joanne has began talked about the upcoming coaching at a high level. She’s WBBL, her thoughts on been head coach of the NSW coaching, the move from play- This month we take time to Breakers since 2012 and this Click here to listen to catch up with NSW Breakers year she takes on a new er to coach and remaining up interview with Coach and the WBBL’s Sydney challenge in the WBBL as the to date in coaching today. Profile of the Month. Thunder coach, Joanne Sydney Thunder’s head coach. Broadbent. On top of her NSW As a player, Joanne has repre- credentials, Joanne has also sented South Australia and been involved in Queensland, Queensland along with playing South Australia and Australian 10 tests and 60 ODIs for youth in a coaching form She Australia. also lists a coaching stint in Drill of the Month— Throwing Technique Drills The importance of throwing with one-day and T20 cricket has seen many “baseball”coaches employed “Throwing has become a in cricket. very important aspect of These coaches have taught us fielding—especially with about throwing workloads, throw- the way a run out can ing technique and throwing rou- tines, which has enabled the change the course of a “cricketer’s shoulder” to be more game efficient, as well as last many sea- sons more than it used to in the past. VIDEO 1— THROWING TECHNIQUE Click here to view the throwing routine The video demonstrates a throwing routine to improve a player’s speed and accuracy. VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 Page 3 Article of the Month — The Modern Coach — Preparation Adapting your coaching What's the job of a cricket drills and methods. coach these days? From videos to Sidearms, This task will vary between Back in the day, the job from the iPhone to cones teams and individuals. was more manager than and from the bowling ma- chine to the nets, there are coach. You made sure the The Under 11 club side a lot of tools to aid prac- team turned up on time, needs a lot more group tice. gave everyone a go in the technical coaching than a nets and taught the young- First-class team. The 1st XI sters how to play straight. Now add netting, middle club side needs more on the Maybe you ran a few pre- practice, free play, mental mental game and personal match warm ups. The cap- preparation and skill drills responsibility. The skill of tain did the rest. to these tools and you the coach to adapt to her have a huge matrix of op- group is at the heart of the tions. job. Now, from school to club to representative and even Additionally, we are “However these days the to first-class level, the starting to prove the com- In the past, we thought coach has a much wider coach has a much wider mon sense realisation that technique was the only role. And bigger responsi- everyone is different. thing that mattered. In reali- range of coaching tools, bility. What works for one per- ty, good coaches knew prep- drills and methods” son may be a recipe for aration was about more than technique. Factors like The problem is that it's not failure in another. One fitness, skill under pressure, always clear where your player may have a natural- learning to deal with failure job as coach ends and the ly wide stance, another is (and success) and good fun captain and player's jobs much more narrow. Both all go into the mix. Modern begin. If you have job de- are right for their own preparation is not always scription (and many club needs. You need to know a about a relentless drive for volunteers won't get that) lot more about technique technical perfection. it won't tell you the details than ever before. you need. And that's before we even Often, this is done in imper- talk about the huge mental fect circumstances: Training So here is what I think a side of the game. The pitches that are poor, play- modern coach has to do to modern coach is able to ers who don't turn up or are cover her role, and help prepare a player tohandle easily distracted, and people modern players succeed. pressure, stay focused, be who moan and blame and Starting in this article with mentally tough and defeat don't take responsibility for the classic preparation of self-defeat. Often this can their own progress. It rains. cricketers. only be done during one The perfect session always training session a week. seems to be a couple of weeks away. A good coach is Preparing cricketers able to take these things in The good coach is able to her stride and move forward The most obvious develop- Australian Coach— tap into this all this infor- despite limitations. In short, Darren Lehmann ment in coaching has come mation and resources, and your job is to ask yourself on the training field. The create practice that best before every session; "will coach has always been prepares players for this session help my group able to improve technique matches, physically and improve?" (Pitchvision: David through nets and drills, mentally. Yikes! That's a Hinchliffe (09/06/2015 ) and that remains an im- huge task. The number of factors you portant part of the job. have to consider are great, However, these days the but If the answer is broadly coach has a much wider "yes" you are on the right range of coaching tools, path. Dates for the Calendar: Level I Courses — October/November —visit http:// coaches.cricket.com.au for more courses T20 Power Batting Seminar—December, 2015 (TBC) Level II Coaching Course—December 14-17, 2015 in Bowral— nomination form— http://form.jotformpro.com/ form/52797288417976 THE WEB! Useful Resource: sportplan.net As we all know, the world This month’s resource is: wide web allows coaches to store and share infor- Sportplan.net mation. This site allows drawings, In the old days, drawing on pieces of paper, filing session planners and folders them away, ultimately to be established; viewing losing them all—was the other coach’s drills can be way we stored all our information. done; as well as adding vide- o’s of drills into your library. Creating an online library for all your cricket drills It is free of charge—but you and information is the can pay a subscription to get way forward for many coaches. extra’s which make coaching Cricket NSW a lot easier! 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