Berkshire Cricket Foundation

U10-13 Boys Performance - Spring Report

We are 8 weeks into our Spring training programme with players in our U10 – U13 age groups. With two training groups at each age, we have had over 160 local cricketers building on their foundation batting, bowling and fielding skills with a particular focus on improving their technical level of skill and how to apply these in different situations. Our U13 players have been introduced to Sports Psychology and Nutrition through the delivery of online workshops.

The indoor programme has two more weeks to run, with a particular focus on the transition to match play. The Easter holidays will see the players within these groups training outside and starting a series of internal matches. The U11, U12 and U13 age groups will play a series of matches up to May Half Term when selection for final County Summer Playing Squads will be made and those players missing out at U12 and U13 level will link up with the Hub Programme for the rest of the summer. The U10 players will focus on their club cricket this summer, with a smaller programme of training and match play to supplement their club commitments.

Men’s Performance Teams - Report

As the winter draws close to its end and our senior squad moves closer to the season ahead preparations continue for the busy summer to come.

Since December the boys have worked hard on every aspect of their games on a Monday and a Wednesday evening under new captain Dan Lincoln alongside head coach Tom Lambert. Stewart Davison has continued to monitor the boys physical conditioning to get them where they need to be for the 3 format summer they face.

The availability of the players and attendance has been outstanding and it’s a continued strength of the senior set up that our Younger Academy players have frequently trained alongside our senior squad.

It’s less than a month away now till our first fixture in the traditional curtain raiser Marlborough Cup T20 games with Wiltshire at Tidworth CC on April 10th. The following week the boys have a three day training camp on the 12,13,14th April ahead of our first competitive T20 group game with Oxfordshire at Falkland CC.

We wish the players well in the completion of their winter programs and look forward to them embarking on their busy summer ahead where they will compete on three fronts, defending their 50 over title as well as competing in the re-introduction of the T20 competition and ending the summer with their championship campaign in July and August.