Episodes
Hey Legends!Welcome to Monday Mentoring!Every Monday we will be sharing a question from our Cricket Mentoring Community with you.   This week: Question:  Hi Scolls I hope you don't take this the wrong way! In your own game, you score loads of 20's/30's in WACA Grade Cricket. What is stopping you going on to get the bigger scores you obviously strive for? Is it technical, tactical, mental? I am sure you think about this! 100 next week?
Published 04/19/21
Monday Mentoring Ep05 - Game day mindset We got this question from one of the members of The Cricket Mentoring Community during a LIVE Q & A with Scolls. Q: Couple of questions to you around Game-day Mindset.  1) I felt like I was in a Negative frame of mindset last Game. Maybe, I lacked the motivation compared to the other games I played this season! Any tips/advice around how to change the story (narrative) in my mind to be more positive? or any other advice in general around, how to...
Published 04/12/21
Hey Legends!Welcome to Monday Mentoring!Every Monday we will be sharing a question from our Cricket Mentoring Community with you.   This week: Question: How do you decide if a trigger movement is the right thing for you or not? On somedays I seem to be playing well when I move back and across but on others I play better just staying still until the ball is released.
Published 03/29/21
Hey Legends!Welcome to Monday Mentoring!Every Monday we will be sharing a question from our Cricket Mentoring Community with you.   This week: Question: When I'm training to play short balls (with someone chucking them down from the other end), I generally play them quite well. But when I face short balls in the nets, I tend to hesitate and move away. I'm guessing that's because I prepare myself for a short one during throwdowns, but they're a lot more unpredictable in the nets. What's a good...
Published 03/22/21
Hey Legends!Welcome to Monday Mentoring!Every Monday we will be sharing a question from our Cricket Mentoring Community with you.   This week: Question: I have found I am having trouble with early in swing from LH Bowling. I am Right-handed and looking at protecting my stumps but have struggled to get out LBW. Please give some advice to help!l
Published 03/15/21
Hey Legends!Welcome to Monday Mentoring!Every Monday we will be sharing a question from our Cricket Mentoring Community with you.   This week: Question: I’ll be playing 20 and 40 overs this year, for you personally how does your mindset/ intent change based on the length of cricket your playing?
Published 03/08/21
G’day legends. Welcome back or welcome to the Cricket Mentoring Podcast. It’s been a while since we published an episode so it’s great to be back. Thank you for listening! The idea of this podcast is to share the unique stories of cricketers, coaches and performance experts, with the aim of giving you; serious & committed cricketers, coaches or parents, some techniques, strategies and inspiration so you can become a better and more confident cricketer and live a better life. This episode...
Published 03/04/21
In this episode, Tom Scollay presented at a Keynote event as a break out speaker discussing peak performance in sport. This is a snippet from the end of the session when they audience broke into a Question and Answer section with Tom. You will hear Tom answer questions relating to mindset in sport and how to manage yourself.We hope you get some awesome information out of this one.
Published 09/07/20
Today’s guest is a professional cricketer, a mentor of ours and the head of female cricket at Cricket Mentoring and someone who has become a friend over the past few years. Bhavi Devchand is currently contracted with Victoria and is training and rubbing shoulders on a daily basis with some of the world’s best cricketers including Elysse Perry and Australian captain Meg Lanning. While she’s living her dream, it certainly has been an easy run and she’s had her fair share of setbacks and...
Published 08/17/20
I now know what makes Steve Smith, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson so special. They understand themselves and know what they need to do in order to prepare themselves in all 6 pillars, so that they have the best chance of succeeding, every time they step onto the field. For me, it wasn’t a lack of skill. It was a lack of understanding. It was a fluke if everything aligned both internally and externally, and hence why I was inconsistent.   Through my personal experience and leanings, I now...
Published 08/10/20
G'day legend. Welcome back the Cricket Mentoring Podcast. This episode is the audio from an extremely interesting zoom call we had with the first 30 people who had bought the Cricket Mentoring online program "Josh Philippe - Behind the Grill". These lucky 30 customers got the opportunity to be invited into a zoom call with Sydney Sixers player Josh Philippe and ask him questions for an hour to gain a deeper insight into his game and mindset. With lots of value in this episode, we hope you...
Published 07/01/20
G’day legends. Welcome back or welcome to the Cricket Mentoring Podcast. This episode was recorded at the end of April 2020 when we were at the height of the coronavirus in Australia. It’s not being published in early June 2020 and fortunately, things have become much more positive in Australia and around the world. Today’s guest is a friend of mine and someone I’ve watched go from an average cricketer to scoring a huge hundred on his first-class debut.  Charlie Wakim grew up in Sydney and...
Published 06/12/20
This is Part B in our conversation with South Australian and Adelaide Strikers opening batsman Jake Weatherald. If you haven’t listened to Part A yet then I highly recommend you go back and listen to that out before listening to this episode. There was such great value in the first part of the conversation that you’re missing out if you haven’t listened to it. We pick up this part of the conversation with Jake discussing his game in great detail and how he has been developing it. I hope you...
Published 05/04/20
G’day legends. Welcome back or welcome to the Cricket Mentoring Podcast. If you’re listening to this during the coronavirus then I hope this podcast finds you well and gives you some lessons or inspiration to live your best life. I absolutely love sharing the unique and individual stories of cricketers at different stages of their career on this podcast.  Today’s guest is someone who has already done some great things in the game but at 25 years of age has his best cricket still ahead of him...
Published 04/21/20
G’day legends. Welcome back or welcome to the Cricket Mentoring podcast. Unless you’re a keen follower of women’s cricket in England, you probably wouldn’t heard of today’s guest - yet!  Naomi Dattani is an all-rounder and the captain of the Middlesex women’s team and has recently spent time in Perth playing club cricket and developing her game in Australian conditions. I first came across Naomi in November last year when she reached out for some mentoring and really enjoyed helping her...
Published 04/11/20
Nicole Bolton has without doubt been Western Australia’s finest female cricketer in the past decade but as you’ll hear in this episode it’s been a roller-coaster ride for her that’s included the highs of scoring a century on international debut while the lows have forced her to take multiple breaks from the game at different stages of her career. She has openly spoken in the past about the mental health issues she’s had to deal with and overcome and she was incredibly honest about her...
Published 03/20/20
Today’s guest has developed into one of the most exciting T20 batters in the country with his performances for the Melbourne Renegades in the past two Big Bash tournaments. Sam Harper is the Victorian and Melbourne Renegades wicket-keeper batsman and we caught up during my time in Melbourne recently to discuss his journey from the backyard with his dad and brother to playing professionally. Harper was a big reason the Renegades won the Big Bash in 2019 with his dynamic batting at the top of...
Published 03/16/20
In this episode, we spoke about how he managed his game between Australia and the UK and the different challenges that he faced. Having transitioned from playing to professional coaching last year, it was fascinating to hear how Klinger now views the game as a coach and what he looks for technically in batters as a result of what he found out about his own game late in his career.
Published 03/05/20
Kate Cross is an international cricketer currently in Australia as part of the England squad for the world cup. You’ll hear throughout this episode how open and honest she was about her life and career in cricket. While she’s had a career to be proud of, she’s also had her fair share of challenges and hardships which culminated in her being too scared to see her teammates during a training camp. It led to her stepping away from the game for a break and to work through her mental health...
Published 02/27/20
Today’s guest is one of the most successful coaches in the world and as I coach myself I was thrilled to pick the brains of one of the best. Greg Shipperd had an excellent career as a player scoring almost 7,000 first-class runs at an average over 42 with a highest-score of 200* but I think it’s fair to say, he’s made even more of an impact on the game as a coach.    Shipperd started his coaching in Tasmania where he mentored young guns Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson before he shifted to...
Published 02/20/20
Welcome to the Cricket Mentoring podcast. I’m Tom Scollay or Scolls as I get called and this podcast has been designed for cricketers and cricket lovers who want to learn and improve themselves. In this podcast we interview past, current and future cricket stars to find out more about their journey and what makes them successful while also sharing some audio from ourselves at Cricket Mentoring. Our goal is to help you become your best, on and off the field so I hope you enjoy this podcast and...
Published 02/12/20
Welcome to the Cricket Mentoring podcast. I’m Tom Scollay or Scolls as I get called and this podcast has been designed for cricketers and cricket lovers who want to learn and improve themselves. In this podcast we interview past, current and future cricket stars to find out more about their journey and what makes them successful while also sharing some audio from ourselves at Cricket Mentoring. Our goal is to help you become your best, on and off the field so I hope you enjoy this podcast and...
Published 02/11/20
Welcome to the Cricket Mentoring podcast. I’m Tom Scollay or Scolls as I get called and this podcast has been designed for cricketers and cricket lovers who want to learn and improve themselves. In this podcast we interview past, current and future cricket stars to find out more about their journey and what makes them successful while also sharing some audio from ourselves at Cricket Mentoring. Our goal is to help you become your best, on and off the field so I hope you enjoy this podcast and...
Published 02/11/20
Welcome to the Cricket Mentoring podcast. I’m Tom Scollay or Scolls as I get called and this podcast has been designed for cricketers and cricket lovers who want to learn and improve themselves. In this podcast we interview past, current and future cricket stars to find out more about their journey and what makes them successful while also sharing some audio from ourselves at Cricket Mentoring. Our goal is to help you become your best, on and off the field so I hope you enjoy this podcast and...
Published 02/09/20
Today’s episode was recorded back in August this year while I was in the UK and is with a really inspiring guy. Shahbaz Choudry is the founder of Pace Journal – a community for fast bowlers around the world. I first came across the Instagram account at the start of this year and was extremely impressed with what I saw. Having spent a huge amount of time creating content for the Cricket Mentoring Instagram account over the past few years, I know how much time and effort goes into it and when I...
Published 11/06/19