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Q: I am still buzzing after the one and only West Indies former captain Jimmy Adams generously gave me his time to come onto my podcast and share some wonderful stories from his life and coaching journey. Please feel free to have a listen as he is a wonderful human being.
Here is the link:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-jones61/episodes/Episode-52-with-Jimmy-Adams-e2gbsri
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Q: For any members involved in club coaching please feel free to log onto our upcoming workshop/webinar which takes place Wednesday of this week at 19;00 hours GMT. I am hosting one workshop a month and this one is on the importance of coaching in club development.
Zoom details are as follows:
Topic: The importance of coaching in club development
Time: Mar 6, 2024 07:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81472906909?pwd=T3pGaVBsZnlxRTJhZ21qY2lYa1J1UT09
Meeting ID: 814 7290 6909
Passcode: 827132
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Q: Episode 47 of Tom Jones talks junior cricket coaching with Aisha Hussain
Aisha is a PE Teacher in a secondary school brought up in a Moslem S Asian family with supportive parents enabling her to follow her interest in sport. She speaks so passionately about the importance that sport has for everyone whatever your background and race. Inspirational individual.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EZU6U24Q4RsxUzY6c6Qq0
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Q: Please add my podcast to the fantastic list you already have showing on here.
https://anchor.fm/tom-jones61
The focus is on sharing people's experience of coaching young players, understanding their approach and values, learning about what works well for them and how they continue to grow and learn as a coach. Guests range from top international coaches to grassroots club coaches as well as S+C specialists, psych specialists and heads of cricket in school and county settings. The overall objective is to share information for the benefit of other coaches but in particualr for the benefit of the young players under our care so that they look forward to the next coaching session and build a strong affinity to the game we all love.
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Q: I am interested to hear from anyone who is a cricket coach of juniors/kids and who would like to come onto my podcast called Tom Talks Junior Cricket Coaching.
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Q: A coaching colleague from SA I met whilst doing one of the wonderful CoachED quals is looking for coaching experience in the UK either in a club or a school or maybe shadowing a county side. If anyone is looking for some support in these areas please let me know. Thanks.
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Q: Episode 17 of Tom Jones talks junior cricket coaching with Jen Barden
Jen Barden has been involved in coaching cricket since she was 17 and now plays a significant coaching role in the work of the Lancashire Cricket Foundation.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kk3sRsGV8eueSYCdrtOCK
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Q: Episode 16 of Tom Jones talks junior cricket coaching with Paul Lawrence
Paul Lawrence is the Director of Cricket at Wellington School in Dorset. He is also a scout for the Western Storm, the U15s girls Head Coach for Glocs and the Dorset Mens Head Coach. He has an absolute wealth of knowledge and experience in cricket coaching.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7CaQHFRI8I2MTW7tvllPWv
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Q: Carey stumps Bairstow and the Spirit of Cricket
In almost every game of cricket at any level around the world, you will see a wicket keeper standing back to the fast and medium pace bowlers. At some stage during an innings, the wicket keeper will take the ball the batter either let's go or misses and, in the same motion under arm it back towards the stumps in the hope the batter is out of their crease.
It's been happening since the game began and every wicket keeper, including all our favourite test keepers, have done it at some stage.
Why now, when Alex Carey, in the same motion, does it in a test match for Australia against England and Jonny Bairstow strangely walks out of his crease and is run out are some people so upset and screaming from the rooftops?
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1241/carey-stumps-bairstow-and-the-spirit-of-cricket
A: I don’t think Carey did anything wrong, I don’t think Cummins did anything wrong. I think Bairstow was #careless (just like his keeping) and I also think B-road was a complete hypocrite telling Cummins and Carey what he thought on the field: Inremember him not walking having smacked it to the keeper in an Ashes series years ago.
I am a massive advocate of protecting the Spirit of Cricket especially embedding this with junior cricketers as there is far too much crass talk on cricket fields these days.
However in this match, in this moment even as an England supporter I don’t think this relevant.
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Q: Tom Jones Talks Junior Cricket Coaching with Shakil Manir
Shakil has over 20 years of coaching experience but still says he is learning every day. He works with kids in CAG, SEND, schools, club environments as well as coaching privately and has a uniquely special passion for coaching kids
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/891/tom-jones/blog/1158/tom-jones-talks-junior-cricket-coaching-with-shakil-manir
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Shakil has over 20 years of coaching experience but still says he is learning every day. He works with kids in CAG, SEND, schools, club environments as well as coaching privately and has ...
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Q: If anyone involved in junior cricket coaching would like to arrange a chat with the option of coming onto my podcast called Tom Talks Junior Cricket Coaching, please let me know. Thanks, Tom
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Q: Tom Jones Talks Junior Cricket Coaching with Jimmy Lomas
In this Episode Tom Jones talks with Jimmy Lomas. Jimmy experienced a lightbulb moment redefining his career goals to move to coaching cricket with kids in lockdown and three and a half years later he is loving every single hour of his working week.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/891/tom-jones/blog/1082/tom-jones-talks-junior-cricket-coaching-with-jimmy-lomas
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In this Episode Tom Jones talks with Jimmy Lomas. Jimmy experienced a lightbulb moment redefining his career goals to move to coaching cricket with kids in lockdown and three and a half years later ...
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Q: Tom Jones Talks Junior Cricket Coaching with Matt Dawson
Matt started coaching wicket keeping in his club 20+ years ago and now owns Cricket Asylum which offers all year round cricket for junior cricketers of all abilities
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/891/tom-jones/blog/1043/tom-jones-talks-junior-cricket-coaching-with-matt-dawson
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Matt started coaching wicket keeping in his club 20+ years ago and now owns Cricket Asylum which offers all year round cricket for junior cricketers of all abilities ...
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Marty is a former first-class cricketer from New Zealand who found his passion for coaching kids having first experienced it as an overseas player in the UK. His objective is all about making the k ...
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Dinesha Devnarain is a pioneering female cricket coach operating in the field of High Performance in South Africa where she is the first female to coach the Cricket SA U19 High Performance Team. In ...
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David is a Sports Psychologist who helps junior athletes develop their mental toughness to perform better under pressure. Many of his clients are junior cricketers who come to David looking for hel ...
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Q: How often should a junior (let’s say 11-14) practice their skills during the week?
A: How much do they want to work on developing their skills as opposed to having some fun, being curious about their game and enjoying each other’s company?
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Q: What's the best advice you've received in relation to cricket?
A: Stay in the moment and remember that most of the game is “above the shoulders” by which I mean adopting the right mindset!
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Q: My kids love heading to the nets in school holidays but often don’t have any adults with them to direct what they’re working on.
Does anyone have any advice on what drills they could do at the nets to keep them interested and engaged whilst also improving their skills?
Batting, bowling and catching all need help!
Thanks in advance
A: There are loads of resources online and via You Tube etc that the kids can look into but the most important thing for them is to have some fun and enjoy exploring things in an unstructured way ie self directed learning!
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Q: What's the ideal dynamic between a captain and a coach in club cricket?
A: Some brilliant responses already.
I would like to add that as coach your role is to support the captain in how he wants to go about leading the side. This could be as simple as listening and understanding his approach or challenging and questioning him to seek improvement. It is the captain’s team and therefore your role as coach is to be a facilitator in support of this
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Q: We have a promising 17-year-old batter at our club and we’ve noticed he’s picking the bat up towards leg slip as the bowler is running into bowl. What’s the best way to help and is there a preference to how he should pick the bat up?
A: Some great suggestions already shared. My suggestion would be to show him what this looks like before and at impact and ask a couple of questions of him as to where he is strong and where he could develop his hitting area with this back lift.
Perhaps you could ask him to keep his hands close to his body and tuck his right elbow into his right hip (assuming he is a right handed batter)
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Q: What is the most surreal moment you've experienced in cricket?
A: Many examples of surreal experiences connected to cricket the most recent of which was witnessing three run out dismissals in a University First Team game all off no balls. However a highlight for me was on the evening after my wife and I got married in Barbados meeting Garfield Sobers who was having a drink in the restaurant we were eating in…
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Q: Hi, does anyone have any good cricket podcasts they can recommend?
A: Please check out my podcast which focuses its attention on where we all started our cricketing journey ie as children. It’s called Tom Talks Junior Cricket Coaching.
https://anchor.fm/tom-jones61
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