ok, my district presentation was an hour or so ago and ive just come back from it...
Neil Pickup said:
If I were you in that situation then I would already have turned round and given the "coach" a volley of abuse.
As a coach myself I would never hope to take an aggressive approach towards a player - and a junior player, too - unless he had a huge personality/attitude problem and/or blatantly wasn't trying - not in that case for certain.
In defence of district coaches - I know the NE Lincs coach is nothing like that but I can't speak for the rest of the country. I know from painful experience that a lot of other teams seem to have an attitude of victory through whatever means possible - great big slogs mostly - rather than the development of cricket and playing proper shots..
Your "coach" has probably broken the ECB Coaches' Code of Conduct in more than one place so you are well within your rights to complain.
He could do well to remember that it's a lot easier for a coach to destroy a player than to improve him.
As for pitches, I've seen some dismal artificials and excellent grass pitches as well as grass wickets that make you soil your pants and artifical paradises.
ok, like ive mentioned earlier the only thing good about my my district and presumably all others is their organization, they get the season stats of all the players from their schools clubs and of course districts and present them whatever theyve won etc.. in a presentation morning.
anyways ive just received the usual letter of stats and comments and here it is!
Jerome J******* - E**** School/ B****** Cricket Club/ ****** District
Right Handed Batsman/ Right Arm Medium Fast
School Vice-Captain/Club Captain/District Vice-Captain
Summer 2003 Statistics
Batting
m-56 i-47 no-30 runs-1320 hs-107* 50s-12 100s-1 sr-74 avg-77.65
Bowling
o-151.4 m-32 runs-507 wkts-47 4/h- 3 5'h-0 bb- 4/7 econ-4.01 avg-12.91
Coaches Comments
Well Done Jerome on a good season with the bat allround, if you erase some of your flaws which i will address later on, it is thought that you will have a place in the Kent u-16s maybe even u-15s if you better yourself quickly.
Anyway, the main strength in your batting is your technique, it considerably of a higher level than others who play amongst you at your club. You have yet again shown yourself to be very strong on the offside and off your pads, but your weakness still remains your pull and hook shot. Which leads me onto my point about your inability to slog, i mean, it is all good and fine to accumalate runs like you do but agressive batting is what wins games and remember that is what cricket and all games are about. The sooner you adjust your style to being more attacking the better.
Bowling wise,you have serious problems because medfast is only useful for slowing down the runrate and even in that your economy rate is over 4, which is rather poor at the very most it should be 3.50 not a bit more..you need to work on your bowling if you want to establish yourself as a allrounder...or you can work on your fitness and gain extra pace so you can bowler much quicker, pace is necessary to be noticed.
Remember also, that stats is everything, you maybe pleased that your batting average is 77 but thats in 25 over games i mean it will only be worhtwhile if its still over 45 when you halve it, and your average will be only 37.5 which is okay at best, you need to bat more aggressively to get more runs and to see how good your bowling average is tripel it and you should have it under 23 but yours is 36 which absolutely pathetic. So, the main point is winning requires agressiveness with the ball and bat.
