Weekly Skill Set Plans
Our multi-week programmes can be broken down into weekly skill set plans which are built to deliver engaging and thought-provoking sessions that allow players to take ownership of their development. With great coaching insights, tips and drills, these programmes are also a great development tool for your club coaches and volunteers. These plans have been built through extensive research and study, and are available for all age groups from Under 11 to Adult.
We also provide clubs with unique player centred specialist skill set coaching clinics. Every cricket club or group have their own particular needs, so these sessions provide one-off support for your cricket club to gain insights into how to push your game to the next level.
For further information, please contact AJ Harris on aj@seams-cricket.co.uk.
Without balance our outcomes can be inconsistent. Being able to move from a stable position in our set up, to a stable position at point of contact, will enhance your ability to hit the ball with balance and power and ensure outcomes are more consistent.
Many club net sessions will see a batter facing a long line of bowlers, some of which are not even bowlers. This only serves to reduce the intensity and focus in a net session.
Our bowling blocks aim to ignite your net sessions so there is purpose and intensity, with bowlers able to get into their rhythm, bowl in sets and exploit a batters weakness.
And the benefits don’t stop there. Batters also receive more meaningful practice as they now have less variety to contend with and can focus on their scoring options v more accurate and consistent bowling.
Having non- bowlers bowling in the nets only serves to devalue the net and cause irritation to the batter. So Non-bowlers are encouraged to support wicket keepers, enhance their fielding attributes, or work through skill development drills, to ensure they are maximising their training opportunities and there is an appropriate level of challenge and development in the nets.
In games, players are constantly challenged to make good decisions and execute the right option at the right time. This net based scenario applies the same principle to ensure players are focussed on delivering performance instinctively.
Adding power and speed to our game is never a bad thing. Our range of hand speed drills will help you quicken those hands through the ball and again provide a stronger base from which to maximise run scoring.
As players begin moving through the gears, we add another layer to ensure risk is managed in this next phase. Bowlers are also challenged to raise their performance to ensure run scoring is minimised.
Setting up your innings is a key ingredient to any performance so this scenario challenges a batter to establish control of their innings using all options available, including leaving the ball, until they are ready to open up their scoring options. Bowlers are challenged to maximise balls at off stump in order to put pressure on a batter’s defensive technique from ball one.
Maximising your bat swing is another vital element that elite players posess. With the game now focussed heavily on maximising run scoring, it is crucial that you have more power and more options availble to you. This routine will have you hitting more balls into more gaps and crucially helping you clear the boundary when needed.
Real matches add an element of pressure through applying a consequence to performance. Our performance under pressure session aims to replicate that pressure by adding a consequence should they fail to deliver.
Knowing your method v spin is crucial to run scoring. The top players are constantly looking to get on the move to either get as close to or as far away to be able to drive the ball or play off the back foot. So these drills help build confidence so you can move positively forward or back and again maximise your run scoring options.
Pace bowling has always been a big weapon in any teams armoury, so we all need a strong and reliable method of playing on the back foot. Coupled with improving balance, this circuit encourages a modern and dynamic way of playing fast bowling that increases your confidence and execution of those shorter deliveries.
We are all individual but there are some common traits amongst the games elite that are worth emulating. Ensuring your front shoulder is engaged and dominating the ball is one such trait. The setting up to score circuit allows you to develop a more dominant front side which will help you play the ball later and hit with more power as well as ensuring you are balanced and dynamic in your set up.
Power is a massive part of the modern game but we also need the soft touches to access other gaps in the field. This circuit enhances your ability to rotate the strike, score off more deliveries, and put even more pressure on the bowler leading to even more scoring opportunities.
The sweep shot is traditionally linked with playing spin bowlers but is becoming more commonplace against other styles of bowling. Ensuring you have a number of sweep shots in your locker means you can knock a bowler off a challenging length as well as being abke to manipulate the field in order to create more accessible gaps in the field.