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AE Sports Academy Cricket Camps
Posted on October 30, 2009 by The third man
Two October Cricket Camps were held recently as part of the Annandale and Eskdale Sports Academy. They were run by the new DG Community Cricket Coach, Chris Stewart, whose work is supported by the Rural Dumfries and Galloway LEADER Programme.
At the camp at Langholm in the Eskdale Centre 12 local youngsters were taken through the skills of fielding, bowling and batting in two 2 hour sessions which concluded with an energetic and competitive game of pairs cricket.
At the camp at Annan Academy a promising twelve registrations resulted in just four attending. However that meant individual attention and the scheduled two hour session was filled with fielding and batting and a hectic game of non-stop cricket.
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Coaching Courses
Posted on October 30, 2009 by The third man
From Iain Stewart, West Cricket Development Officer.
Conversion Course (From ‘old’ ECB Level 1 to UKCC Level 2)
St Thomas Aquinas RC School, Jordanhill, Glasgow.
November 14/15, 2009. 10am-4pm.
Contact Coach Education Administrator Ben Fox by email at: benfox@cricketscotland.com or by telephone on: 0131-313 7420 to book a place on the course. Full details are also online at: www.cricketscotland.com/Coach Education
UKCC Level 1 (Assistant Coach award)
St Thomas Aquinas RC School, Jordanhill, Glasgow.
Dates 31 January and 13 February 2010, (10am – 4pm) for the course, and 14 February for assesments.
These dates are confirmed and the course will soon be bookable via the Cricket Scotland online shop facility. Child Protection and First Aid courses will also be run around this time.
UKCC Level 2 (Coach Award) or conversion course
Post-season 2010. These are hopefully going to occur also.
Look on your Local Authority sports development department webpage for more information on getting funding towards UKCC courses.
Cricket Scotland Coaches Conference
6/7 March, 2010 Inverclyde National Sports Centre, Largs
ICC Introductory Course (pre-level 1)
Dates and timings - To Be Confirmed.
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Changes to fast bowling directives
Posted on October 28, 2009 by The third man
The ECB Fast Bowling Directives have changed following a two year consultation process. The outcome is that bowlers up to under-15 level are now able to bowl longer spells and more overs in a day.
Under the new guidelines bowlers at under-16 and under-17 level are now permitted to bowl an extra over per spell but those in the under-18 and under-19 category have had the total number of overs they can deliver per day reduced from 21 to 18.
These guidelines will come into effect for the start of the 2010 season.
For full details see www.cricketscotland.com/BowlerGuidelines
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Winter Junior Cricket 2009/2010
Posted on October 28, 2009 by The third man
Dalbeattie
Kids cricket is on every Saturday morning at Dalbeattie High School, 10 till 12 at a cost of £2.60.
This session being run in conjunction with Dumfries and Galloway Council and Galloway Cricket Club.
Langholm
From 5th November, Langholm CC junior training.
Thursdays 4:30pm to 5:30pm at the Eskdale Sport Centre (for P4-P7).
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Western Cricket Academy Trials 2009/10
Posted on October 19, 2009 by The third man
There are again two Western Academy squad groups this winter.
Trials will take place on Sunday 25th October (SNR/U16) and Sunday 1st November (JNR/U14) at Hutchison Grammar in Glasgow.
The Academy will ask some nominees to attend the trials directly and the Junior Area Development Groups will be invited to put nominees forward for the trials.
These two methods of being nominated will be the only ways for players to be nominated for a trial. The Academy will begin gathering information about potential nominees from Thursday 14th October onwards.
The main aim of the Academy remains unchanged – to discover and develop young cricketing talent within Scotland and, ultimately, to produce players (both male and female) that will go on to represent the full Scottish National sides in years to come.
The Western Academy website, can be found at www.westerncricketacademy.co.uk .
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National Primary and Secondary Schools Competitions
Posted on October 19, 2009 by The third man
Following the success of the inaugural National Schools Cup Competitions, Cricket Scotland will again be running National Primary and Secondary Schools Competitions in 2010. In the first year of the competitions 262 schools nationwide entered the two competitions, with over 2600 pupils competing which is a fantastic achievement in year 1.
The competitions will again follow a regional format in the early stages followed by National Finals on 16th June (Primary School) and the following day 17th June (Secondary School).
The entries and regional competitions will be co-ordinated by the regional Cricket Scotland Community Development Manager who is Iain Stewart, his contact details are 07825 172346 or iainstewart@cricketscotland.com.
How can your club or school get involved? Read the attached document, Club Briefing 2010 Schools Comps, and help achieve a 5 round competition and add to the 15 secondary schools (8 state and 7 independent) who competed in the west region in 2009.
The closing date for entries is 26 February 2010.
Cricket Scotland see these competitions as a key part of a pathway from introducing young people to the sport, providing interschool competition and an exit into the club environment.
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Girls’ Cricket
Posted on October 2, 2009 by The third man
Girls’ cricket was part of an Active Schools project amongst schools in Annan last week . Each week 20 primary 7 girls from different schools in the area get together for different activities. Last week it was the turn of cricket when the D&G Cricket Community Coach, Chris Stewart, as part of his brief to widen access to the sport in the region, took the session at Eastriggs Primary.
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Recreating cricketing history at Kirkwood
Posted on September 12, 2009 by The third man
Travellers through the village of Dalton these last few months may have been bemused by the sight of a field next to the village being mown in a strange shape.
This has been an experiment by Anthony Steel of Kirkwood to (re)create a village cricket pitch.
As the field was growing turnips and barley just a few years ago and is still grazed by sheep, it’s an ambitious and far fetched idea but last Sunday the first “club friendly” took place at the new pitch.
It is over 100 years since cricket was last played at Kirkwood, but in the 1870s and 1880s it was a regular occurrence because the Steel family consisted of seven brothers who all played the game. Four of them played “first class” for Lancashire CCC and one (AG Steel) played for, and captained, England – his name is on the Ashes Urn – and he scored the first Test Century at Lords.
In 1874 when Kirkwood played Lockerbie, three Steel brothers (AJ, AG and EE Steel) played for Kirkwood, although they often played for Lockerbie, for Dumfries, and for Scotland. Exactly 135 years later, in 2009 as in 1874, the game was frequently interrupted by rain showers. Read more »
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Performance Academy place for McBride
Posted on September 9, 2009 by The third man
McBride batting against Netherlands U17s, courtesy of ICC/CricketEurope
He joined the other five other full time and two part-time attendees when the course started last week. They include recent Scotland internationals Matthew Parker and Marc Petrie, who kept wicket against Australia two weeks ago. He also joins some of Scotland’s aspiring skiers and rugby players as they attend the corresponding performance courses for their respective sports.
McBride, who played for Scotland U17s and Scotland U19s this year and captained the West Academy team, will receive skills and fitness training and course work in sports science together with a cricketing placement overseas. Last January the group spent three months training and playing in Australia. The likely destination this year is India or Australia.
The former Lockerbie Academy pupil who plays for Dumfries Cricket Club, who was first introduced to the sport thanks to one of the junior cricket taster sessions run by the Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Sports and Leisure Department, has an exciting ‘off-season’ in prospect.
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