Junior Cricket

MISSION STATEMENT:
To foster a life-long love of cricket in both
young players and parents

Cricket is a game for everyone whatever their age, sex or their other personal characteristics.

Speldhurst has fielded senior cricket teams recently with players as old as 71 and as young as 14 – this doesn’t happen in any other sport.

Cricket also helps young cricketers to develop many skills which will serve them well outside sport – Commitment, Resilience and Teamwork being just three of them.

We aim to achieve this by allowing young cricketers to develop at their own pace.

Everyone, whatever their age, learns new skills at different speeds. That needs to be recognised or some young cricketers will feel left behind and others may become bored if insufficiently challenged.

Our coaching groups recognise this. The School Year of the young cricketer is just one piece of information in our assessment of which coaching group suits which player.

We give every young cricketer the same amount of attention.

In our coaching sessions, every member of the coaching group is given an equal opportunity to practice and enhance their skills.

We give special focus to those players who are finding a particular skill to be difficult. This is where they can learn resilience by slowly mastering the skill over a period of time.

We create an environment where mistakes are recognised as part of the learning process.

Ever tried? Ever failed? Try again. Fail better. No young cricketer will ever be criticised for trying something which doesn’t come off – that time.

What we will do is work with the player to increase the chance of success next time.

We encourage parents to become members of the coaching team.

Parents are at the heart of the relationship between the Club and the young cricketers.

We provide support and formal training in coaching skills to allow parents to become as deeply involved in coaching as they want. Many parents choose to become part of the Senior Coaches group for which they can receive more detailed and technical training.

Over 30 parents are currently members of the coaching team.

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Speldhurst Cricket Club operates one of the biggest and best junior cricket sections in the Tunbridge Wells area. We specialise in giving your youngsters the best introduction to the great game of cricket in an atmosphere of inclusiveness and expert coaching.