Warwickshire Cricket Board has produced an 18-week coaching plan for clubs to help deliver high quality coaching to children across the area.

The plan features 6 winter sessions and 12 summer sessions to replicate the approximate period of time spent coaching children at your club each year. This equates to 18 hours coaching time.

The aim of the plans is for children to enjoy participating in cricket through engaging sessions, emphasising on fun, developing and improving the core skills of the game, using a range of practices and game-based scenarios to be able to implement player learning.

The sessions are planned for a group of 20-30 children with 2 coaches; however, this can be adjusted for each individual club.

The rules are designed to ensure every player is active during the game and this is reflected within the practices highlighted in the plan. Therefore it is imperative that every child is batting, bowling, catching and throwing as much possible, in order to develop the fundamental movements and techniques which can be transferred into hard ball cricket.

If you need further assistance with planning, please use iCoachCricket which shows examples and videos of activities and details of how to access the videos are within this document.

If you would like to discuss the plan or need further support, please contact WCB Cricket Development Coach, Andy Turnbull, via email ([email protected]).