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Is This Why Junior Batting Standards Are Falling?

Over the school holidays I ran a couple of cricket camps and over 100 young cricketers attended. I have been coaching for more than 40 years, and I have never seen batting skills as low as they are right now. I am not talking about talent. The kids were keen, athletic and full of energy. What I saw was the same handful of technical faults, over and over, in players of every age and ability. What I saw •          Hands apart on the handle. Split hands make it hard to control the bat face and nearly impossible to play straight. •          Stance. Players set up unbalanced or square-on, so their head and feet are out of position before the ball is bowled. •          No straight bat on the off side. Most could not hit the ball through the off side with a straight bat. They threw the hands at it or cut and slapped across it. •      ...
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Are we giving the right kind of feedback to young players?

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  Most coaches including myself hand out end‑of‑season feedback that sounds exactly the same for every player — generic, vague, and impossible to action. I’ve always felt that does nothing to actually help a cricketer improve. So I set out to build something better. I wanted a system that gives players individual, specific, data‑driven feedback that actually means something — feedback they can understand, apply, and use to get better straight away. The result is a completely new way of reviewing a season: clear, personalised, evidence‑based analysis that shows each player exactly where they’ve grown, where the gaps are, and what to do next. This is a link to the sample report for a 15 year old bowling all rounder (leg spin) A performance analysis is incredibly valuable for a young cricketer because it turns vague ideas about form into clear, measurable, coachable truths . Instead of relying on “I feel like I batted well” or “I think I bowled okay,” the player gets a data‑driv...
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