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The Game Plan: How to Build A Winning Cricket Team [2005.201.060.001]

What's the biggest barrier to success in your cricket team?

It's not facilities or money, and it's certainly not ability.

No. The biggest barrier is time.

You and the others in your team don't have time to work for hours on making technical changes or planning strategies. We all have huge restrictions ranging from work commitments to family to other leisure activities.

It's rare to find the school player with the time and motivation to spend 3 hours a day working on a minor technical error. You will never see a club team give up a week to go on a training camp.

As a result things deteriorate.

Form comes and goes because practice is meaningless.

Games that should be won get thrown away.

Fielding standards are at best mixed and at worst embarrassing.

Young players stop developing and get stuck in a rut.

Playing cricket stops being fun.

There is another way to play

Yet it doesn't have to be like that.

We have all played against teams who seem to field like demons, bat with style and bowl tight lines all day. Every player seems to have a crucial job to do and goes about doing it.

Imagine being that team instead of getting beaten by them.

Think how good it will feel to be part of a winning side and enjoying your cricket. A successful team mean successful players and successful players are able to achieve their aims in cricket; whether you are the 13 year old with ambitions to become a professional or the 45 year old just wanting to enjoy winning games of cricket before you finally hang up your boots.

It's possible.

With the right tactics, planning and preparation any side from the lowly club 5th XI up can excel at their level.

And that is exactly what you get when you buy this course.

I've played and captained non-professional teams and I know outside of the pro game have to pick our battles and do the things that give us the biggest return in the smallest time.

I'll show you the secrets I have learned through over 20 years of playing cricket:

  • The one simple trick from first-class cricket you can use to make players fearless.
  • Why selection is about more than picking bowlers and batsman.
  •  4 proven ways to get more runs from your top batsman.
  • Bowling tactics from the professional game that work just as well in club cricket.
  • Tricks to instantly improve fielding standards, and keep raising them in the long term.
  •  What to do when your plans go wrong.
  • The art of communicating outside of formal meetings.

It's information that you simply cannot get unless, like me, you have built up years of experience playing at both club and first-class level cricket.

Click the green 'Buy' button to get instant access to the course and overcome the problem.

 

Adrian Shaw
Former Glamorgan CCC player and coach
Director of Cricket, Neath CC
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Chapter 1 - Planning and Tactics
Learn how to get the best from your team before the game

How to use roles to create a fearless team

 Learn the importance of roles in cricket, and show you how you can apply roles to your team effectively.


How to use roles to create a fearless team (pdf)

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Typical club cricket roles

 Click here to see the main roles in club cricket, and how to use them.


Why picking the team is about more than bowlers and batsmen

Selecting a side is about more than picking the best batsmen and bowlers in the club. This article shows you how to take into account all the factors that make up a good club team.


Why picking the team is about more than bowlers and batsmen (pdf)

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Team roles worksheet

Use this interactive tool to help you decide the roles for your team.


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Chapter 2 - Batting Game Plan
Learn the successful batting tactics of a good team

4 proven ways to improve your innings

Club cricket teams bat without a plan and miss out on easy runs. By adopting these proven tactics from the first class game you can avoid this pitfall and improve your team's ability to set and chase targets.


4 proven ways to improve your innings (pdf)

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What to do when your plan goes wrong

Not every innings is a sparkling success. Sometimes you collapse. Find out how to deal with failure in this article.


What to do when your plan goes wrong (pdf)

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Batting game plan scenario

Take the reins of a club team's batting strategy in this interactive test of your skills. Can you build a big score?


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Chapter 3 - Bowling Game Plan
Proven bowling strategies

How rigid planning improves your bowling

To learn the simple ways of bowling to a game plan that plays to your strengths. Additionally to be flexible enough with the plan to be able to adapt to changing circumstances.


How rigid planning improves your bowling (pdf)

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Bowling game plan scenario

Become the captain of a team in the field in this interactive test of your skills.


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Chapter 4 - Fielding Game Plan
Simple ways to raise fielding standards

Proven plans to improve your fielding performance

Fielding is one of the simplest areas to improve yet is often overlooked by club sides. This article shows you some simple methods from the first-class game that can be used to raise standards, save runs and take catches.


Proven plans to improve your fielding performance (pdf)

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Chapter 5 - Game Plan Discussion
A downloadable audio discussion on all aspects of club cricket tactics

Game Plan Discussion (mp3)

Download and listen to this 41 minute interview with Adrian Shaw covering all aspects of club and school cricket, including planning, batting, bowling, fielding and the psychology of success at club level.


Exclusive Course Forum

Discuss tactics and strategy with other players on the exclusive forum