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The icoachcricket Podcast

The icoachcricket Podcast

by Coach Development @ England and Wales Cricket Board

Education Cricket

Season 3

John Abrahams: Every decision you make either comes off, or teaches you...

John Abrahams scored 13,560 runs for Lancashire between 1973 and 1988. After captaining Lancashire to List A success, John went on to spend more than 30 years in a range of coaching roles with the ECB. Widely respected across the game, he shares his approach to developing the art of captaincy, highlighting the importance of investing time and energy into nurturing the next generation of on-field leaders.

Sara Begg: How do you make cricket more appealing than a gang?...

Sara Begg has coached across the globe, from community cricket in inner London to leading projects in emerging cricket nations, and is currently working in Brazil. She has extended this work into her PhD, collaborating with teenagers in Nepal to design a cricket-based programme aimed at challenging gender norms and expanding opportunities for girls in both sport and everyday life. In this conversation, recorded before her departure, she reflects on cricket’s power to bring communities together and its role in challenging harmful gender norms, enriching the lives of women and girls both on and off the field.

Pete Alway: To reach peak performance, we have to fly close to the sun...

Pete Alway is leading the research focusing on reducing injury risk, with specialist expertise in the biomechanics and physiology of pace bowling. As the ECB’s Research and Operations Manager he based at the ECB Performance Centre in Loughborough monitoring players and reducing injury risk. In this episode, he shares insights into how fast bowlers can be best prepared and managed to maximise performance while staying fit.

Deep Dasgupta: Our job is to simplify a difficult game...

24 years ago, Deep Dasgupta was playing his final game behind the stumps for India. He is now balancing coaching in the UK with commentary in India. Deep takes time out from his busy World Cup commentary schedule to join Tim Dellor to share his coaching philosophy and approach to developing the modern wicketkeeper.

Season 2

Andrew Griffiths: Skilful, adaptable, problem solvers...

Andrew Griffiths is Head of Pathway Coaching at Somerset CCC. The club has a rich history developing youngsters into top level first class cricketers. How do they do it? Tim Dellor visited Taunton, where there's lots of work going on during the off season, to try and find out....

Caroline Foster: Connecting with players...

20 years ago Caroline Foster was opening the batting for England. 10 years ago she was doing the ECB level 4 coaching qualification.. Now she's one of the most respected coaches in the south west and working at a school in Taunton, with women's Hundred teams and in the boy's and girl's pathway. She's taken time out to talk to The icoachcricket Podcast about her work, her beliefs and how coaching is moving forwards....

Richard Johnson: It's very easy to coach people how you did it...

Richard Johnson has been coaching for the last 18 years. After a very successful time playing for England, Somerset and Middlesex, he's been coaching bowlers at Surrey and Middlesex. He finished his role as Head Coach at Middlesex during last season. He's been telling Tim Dellor about what he looks for when coaching young seam bowlers, what he thinks will happen in the Ashes, and what it's like to be sacked from a high profile coaching role.

Ian Renshaw: Designing the environments...

Ian Renshaw is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities in skill adaptability and coaching. Based in Brisbane and dad of Australian batter Matt Renshaw, he's honed his skills coaching his son, researching at universities, and working around the world over 40 years. Ian has just released a book summarising his coaching beliefs. He's been sharing his thoughts on communication, constraints-led coaching and a whole range of other key issues.

Mark Garaway: The power of story telling...

Mark Garaway was part of Duncan Fletcher's coaching team exactly 20 years ago, when England Men's historic Ashes victory took place. He's since been working in county and school set ups, and he's been a busy contributor to the ECB Coach Development programmes. He met Tim Dellor at Millfield School, where he's Director of Cricket, to tell some stories about coaching over the years.

Kyle Hogg: I saw myself in some of those kids...

Kyle Hogg was a seam bowler for Lancashire, before retirement in 2014. Since then he's worked in the entertainment industry, and is now back in cricket. He had a spell coaching on the Lancashire Women's pathway, and now looks after the England Young Lions seamers. He's back in the spotlight as the lead coach on the hit TV show "Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams". He's been talking about that series, and what he's learned on his journey back into cricket and coaching.

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