Tom Talks Junior Cricket Coaching Podcast Tom Jones

Shrikant Wagh is a former first class professional cricketer from India who came from a very small town and worked his way into the system using his left arm bowling and left handed batting to help him stand out from the crowd. He used the experience of not getting selected for his age group when most of his friends did as a motivator for him to prove he could do it and went on to represent his state for 10+ years. He now coaches club juniors in Yorkshire and brings his experiences from India into his balanced coaching and mentoring style.

Ben is a development and coaching officer with Cheshire Cricket Board and is involved with their Emerging Players Programme as well as leading on their U11s pathway. In this episode Ben shares his views on what is important for the development of players from the earliest stage through to pre academy level and packs a vast amount of personal and professional insight into our talk.

Chad provides us with a number of key themes which he implemented with great success in his time at Ealing CC as Director of Cricket to help junior cricket thrive and grow

Yohan gives us an insight into how he fell in love with the game from a very young age but struggled when Covid brought a stop to all sport. Then through an opportunity to play and coach in the Uk he rediscovered his love for the game again

Chad is a former first class cricketer turned coach and cricket consultant. He is also the founder of Playup.coach. In this episode he talks through his approach to taking on the role of Club Director of Cricket at Ealing CC and all the areas he looked to move on and improve with an eye for detail and a leadership style of engagement

Chris is now Head of Talent Pathway at Lancashire and has a wealth of experience behind him within the game at recreational, England men’s and women’s levels. His approach is to tailor his coaching to suit the individual player and challenge in a constructive way to help the player find out more about their “why”