In the past few weeks we've been getting your team ready for their first game of this year, working on throwing, batting and bowling... but there's one skill area we've not covered yet - your players' catching skills.
To help harden your players' hands we get them to practice a variety of different catches at match-intensity:
By getting your players to practice these drills and games under match conditions you'll be pushing your players and preparing them for the challenges that lay ahead. All of the drills come with their own progressions and competitive twists which allow you to increase the intensity and continue to challenge your players.
Don't drop a sitter, put a name on the catch and improve your players' catching skills today!
Indoor courts give players less time and less room. Help them sharpen their split step, shorten their swing and stay calm, and winter becomes a season of real progress.
A tiebreak is a short sprint where every point is worth the same as a break of serve. The players who win them are rarely the ones who hit hardest. Here is how to coach the patterns, habits and scoreboard thinking that win the big points.
Most club players practise the serve on its own and then have no idea what to do with the ball that comes back. Serve plus one is the pattern that turns a good serve into a won point.