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Bay Of Plenty Cricket Age-Group Player Development Program To Take Centre Stage

Development programes commence

The Bay of Plenty Cricket Girls Age-Group Development program is set to return in September 2018, after the success of the initial program last season.

Promising Year 7 to 13 players who have the potential to participate in the BOPCA U14 and Secondary Schoolgirl sides, have been invited to participate in five training sessions during September 2018.

“Last year some forty aspiring women’s representatives from throughout the Bay of Plenty took part in the pre-season training, with numbers set to increase this season” said Rebecca Yee BOPCA Women’s Development Officer.

Two separate programs, focused on the two main cricket skills of batting and bowling, will be instituted by Bay of Plenty Cricket. “We have identified the need to improve the batting skills of our potential representative players and will facilitate an intensive five week batting skills program for the wider training squad”. “The batting program will cover controlling the ball with the bat, shot selection and building batting confidence”.

“Spin bowling sessions will see smaller groups with specialist coaches. The first spin bowling session will be a talent spotting module, before going on to further sessions covering the correct grip, landing, flight and tactics” said Rebecca.

Due to the large geographical area of the Bay of Plenty, the BOPCA Male Age-Group Player Development Spring program has been split into two regional programs.

The BOPCA Coastland (Western Bay of Plenty) region will hold a number of specialist clinics, with the BOPCA Lakeland (Eastern Bay of Plenty, Rotorua, Taupo) region players engaging in squad training.

Coastland batting and seam-bowling clinics will be complemented with specialist spin bowling and wicket-keeping sessions. The geographical spread of the Lakeland region, will see age-group squads assemble in a central venue for group training in the buildup to the new cricket season.