Cricket Coaching & The Game!

THE COACH

Key Points- Role of the Coach
1. Coach should be a very good Communicator for providing clear instruction and feedback to the team and Individual players
2. Coach should be a good Teacher for developing the players’ skills and team tactics
3. Coach should be a very good Motivator for maintaining and controlling interest in players
4. Coach should be a very good Leader for organizing training, match day activities
5. Coach should be a very good Psychologist for dealing with various individual’s need and team
6. Coach should be a very good Manager for dealing with a wide range of players, officials and supporters
7. Coach should be a very good Sports supporter for developing fitness programs, injury prevention, care and management
8. Coach should be a very good Selector for selecting the team to best represent the club
9. Coach should be a very good Student for seeking continually to upgrade his knowledge of the game.
10. Coach should be a very good Public Relations Expert for representing the club at official functions and community activities

Coaching Style
1. Coaches may act as Authoritarian
a. Strong disciplinarian
b. Well organized
c. Good team spirit when winning
d. Dissension when losing
e. May be feared or disliked
2. Coaches may act as Business Like
a. Intelligent, logical approach
b. Well planned and organized
c. Up to date with new techniques
d. Expect 100% effort all the time
e. May set goals too high for some team member
3. Coaches may act as Nice Guy
a. Well liked
b. Players sometimes take advantage of this coach’s co-operative nature
c. Gets on well with players of similar temperament
4. Coaches may act as Intense
a. Emphasizing winning
b. High anxiety often transmitted to high players
5. Coaches may act as Easy Going
a. Gives impression of not taking the games seriously
b. May not be prepared to drive the team at training
c. Well liked but may seem to be inadequate in some situation
Quality of a Good Coach
1. Respect the Individual
2. Professionalism
3. Organization
4. Goal Setting
5. Use Assistants
6. Planning
7. Safety & Fitness
8. Communication
9. Set Standards
10. Player Discipline
11. Develop Club Spirit
12. Player Responsibility
13. Basic Skills
14. Team Plan
15. Know and Care for the Game

Skills Teaching
S – Show/Demonstrate
(1) Name the Skill (2) Demonstrate the Skill (3) Give your teaching points
P – Practice
(1) Send the players out to practice immediately (2) Use only small groups
I – Instruct
(1) Stand back and observe each performer (2) Offer advice (3) Keep repeating
the Key points about the skill
R – Reward
(1) Praise players for good effect
S – Summary
(1) Summaries key points learnt from the exercise and encourage further
Practice.

S – Screening
T – Technique
O– Overuse
P – Physical Training

Preparation (90 Minute Session)
1. Group Organization (5 Minutes)
2. Physical Warm up (10 Minutes)
3. Speed Practices (10 Minutes)
4. Skill Development (45 Minutes)
5. Supplementary Conditioning (15 Minutes)
6. Concluding Activities and Cool Down (5 Minutes)

THE GAME- BATTING
Key Points

1. Concentration: Maintaining a fine focus on every ball from the bowler’s hand on the face of the bat
2. Balance: Hitting off a stable base by adjusting body weight to the length of the ball and positioning the head in line with the ball
3. Technique: Aligning body levels, keeping hands in close to the body and allowing the front elbow to push through in the direction of the shots
Concentration:
• Watch the bowl from the bowler’s hand
• Consistent mental plan
• Relax, Fine focus and NOW Technique
The Grip
• Hands together, middle of handle
• ‘V’s pointing down back of bat between splice and leading edge
The Stance
• Feet shoulder width apart
• Side on
• Knees relaxed, slightly bent
• Eyes level
• Weight on balls of feet
The Back Lift
• Head still
• Co-ordinate back lift with bowlers stride
• Keep hands in close to body
• Toe of bat between off stump and second slip
• Height of the bat should be at the level of bail
• Hands in close to body
Front foot Shots - Defense
• Watch the ball
• Head still
• Step forwards the line of the ball
• Transfer weight
• Soft hands
• Full face of the bat
Sweep
• Ball should be hit on half volley
• Cover the line of ball with pads
• Bat in horizontal at contact
• Don’t try to hit the ball too hard
• Roll wrist
• Weight should be forward
Back foot Shots – Defense
• Move back foot back and across to off stump
• Front foot back and in line with body
• Front elbow high
• Top hand firm
• Bottom hand relaxed
Back foot Shots – Drive
• Stabilize back foot
• Keep arms in close to the body
• Head steady, eyes level
• Front elbow high at point of contact
• Full swing of bat - follow through
Pull shot
• Back foot across and back
• Head steady
• Arms extended
• Rotate shoulders
• Roll wrist
Cut Shot
• Move back foot across to off stump
• Head to line of ball
• Extend arms
• Keep hands high
• Don’t Lean back

BOWLING

Key Points:-
Concentration:
• Focus on the line to bowl
Alignment:
• Keep the arms in close to body during run up
• Be in posture (hips and shoulders in the same plane) at back foot landing
• Be balanced, keep the head high and steady, with eyes level throughout
Power
• Accelerate gradually in the run-up
• Jump into the delivery stride
• Pull the front arm strongly down the target line and keep the elbow close to the body
• Rotate the arms and shoulders as vertically as possible towards target
Grip
• First two fingers slightly apart on the seam with thumb on the seam under the ball
Rock & Bowl – Position & Rock & Roll – Position
• Keep head steady and eyes level
• Transfer weight
• Pull front arm down strongly towards hip
• Bowling arm should brush ear and then follow through cross the body
Side on – Action
• The back foot parallel to the bowling crease and stumps at back foot landing
• Hips and shoulders pointing down the wickets at the batter
• The bowler is able to look through the extended front arm as the back foot lands
Front on – Action
• Both feet pointing towards the batter at back foot landing
• Hips and shoulder pointing across the pitch
• Bowler able to look inside the extended front arm as the back foot lands
Out swing
• Point seam towards first/second slip (to right hand batters) Fingers are to be normal
• Release ball off index (finger) and second finger
• Position shiny side of ball to leg side (to right – hand batter)
• Follow through across the body
In swing
• Point seam towards fine leg
• Release ball off middle finger
• Point thumb towards batter
• Position of shiny side of the ball to off side (to right hand batter)
• Follow through down side of body.

FIELDING

Key Points
• Should have Agility/Flexibility
• Should have physical fitness/stamina
• Should have self respect and confidence
• Should have brave mind
• Should have deep passion
• Believe in yourself and Expect every ball
• Be a good fielder and believe that you are a good fielder
Tips to Remember: If you are a boundary line fielder, (Third Man, Sweeper/Deep Point, Sweeper/Deep Cover, Long Off, Long On, Deep Mid Wicket, Deep Square Leg, and Fine Leg);
• You should always start and move forward from the exact boundary line,
• Watch the batsman, his strength and weakness
• Expect the ball every time
• If the ball is coming to your direction speedily, you should slowly pick and throw it to the wicket keeper/bowling end.
• You should run quickly and pick the ball only if the ball is coming slowly into your direction.
• Your throw should be flat/drift/one bounce to the wicket keeper/bowling end; and remember, it should be hip level of the wicket keeper/bowling end collector.
Tips to Remember: If you are a Slip/Gully fielder/Short leg/Silly Point fielder;
• You don’t need to move anywhere, just concentrate every balls
• You have to bend half way, be ready to take catches
• Watch only on the Bat NOT the Batsman
Tips to Remember: If you are a Thirty Yard Line Fielder (Short Third Man/Point/Cover/Extra Cover/Mid Off/Mid On/Mid Wicket/Square Leg/Short Fine Leg);
• Always remember that you should move forward from the thirty yard line.
• Be alert on every balls
• You have to be very quick in collecting the ball if the ball is in a defense stage.
• You should have agility/flexibility/concentration to move on both sides very quickly.
• You should have aggressiveness on the field
• You should not loose your temper from start to end.
• Be a good fielder…

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Swine-Flu Outbreak:

The Word Swine Flu means an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic. It is indeed spread out the country and acts the domination with its influence throughout the nation. It is not necessary to be panic or blame anything/anyone since it is a virus, which has an accelerated power to generate its influence rapidly. At the moment, we are confronting the real issue of swine flu and scaring about the calamities spreading infection throughout the country.

In fact, at the meantime, people may not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. The virus is contagious and can spread from human to human. We must keep asking each other or consult a specialist if we feel sick, cold, have a body ache, fever or breathlessness so that we could survive the initial process of spreading the infection. Most of the people are living in different culture or lifestyle since the current generation emerged substantially. Even if they have limit to sustain the precision of health and life, they would have broken the standardization of lifestyle. It also ascribes the condemnation of society of governing council to protect human life. But Swine flu suddenly chart out numerous victims in this circumstance.

Moreover society starts to point out the faulty decisions taken by the Government or social network. It also figures out the scaring culture of human nature. We should always preserve the slogan “prevention than cure”.

SHOE THROWING PROTESTS

It is indeed a most popular subject matter in the society; after all it is merely a social contentious. Nowadays, people are trying to protest against common issues with the help of exhibiting boorish manner. However, it seems to be a misbehaving attitude showcasing to the political leaders by the people. Even if political celebrities perform their imperfect way of dealing, common people should have minimum quality of acting within the crowd or society.

Infact, we have the right to act our own ways and carry out the matters into the society, but we always remember to keep our way of behaving and nature of performing in a society. Throwing shoes to any political leaders is not at all a good manner and it is not digestible to anyone. These kinds of activities are absolutely expressing the quality of an individual or their party. The way of protesting against the issues is not only focused on the basis of that particular matter, but it shows the power of both individual and crew. It might be the concept of any political party. But when it moves beyond the boundary of the protest, it seems like a bad nature of protesting against the issue. Moreover, it focuses only on that particular act, not the matter. Whenever we need to do anything, we should express our minimum quality and that makes us to improve a good attitude. We should learn to respect every human being.

Emerging Trends in IT Industry!

The emerging trends in Information Technology sector have considerable relevance for countries like India. In a state like Kerala Information Technology enterprises are instrumental in providing a new lease of life for its fading industrial map. generates several new issues for the new generation computer and IT professionals.

Implication for employees/recruits given the sad history of non-IT industry failures in Kerala, the mindset and work culture of IT professionals has to be modulated before they become employees. An IT professional is subsuming, slowly, a set of work values, which has a globalized color to it. The natural tendency on the path of any new employee is to, knowingly or unknowingly, work in the legacy of the existing work culture.

The strengths and weakness of a company’s human resources can have determining effects on the viability of the firm’s strategic options. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the different dimensions of the changing human resource requirements of IT companies. These requirements or expectations of the companies are in terms of their personal qualities and capabilities, both technical and non-technical of the human resources. In short, the expectations from new generation IT professionals are a shade different from professionals in other industries.

These requirements are emerging out of the factors such as the globalized economic environment, intensified competition between IT companies for performance and output, the often occurring need for change management and similar challenges on time management emerging especially from international projects. The international nature of projects also makes the teams spread in a wide geographic area. Such projects also impact on the nature of work resulting in increased work pressure in companies and on employees.

In some IT companies, absence of a formal performance appraisal system and tough performance standards in work is another challenge flexible work time including rigid work time schedules exist, also has ramifications for employees. Employees have to work continuously and at odd hours, which increase the complexity of human resources management as motivating and rewarding them appropriately becomes challenging.

Another critical aspect is the increasing significance of team and teamwork. New professionals entering IT sector need to refine their capabilities to work in teams, as teams are the hallmark of IT project management. The criticality of teams in work situations, competition inside team, performance affected by inadequate attention to people and teamwork issues are all situations and contexts which the new generation IT professionals have to understand and equip for. Therefore, HR Management of IT companies will have to take adequate mechanisms to recruit professionals who would be compatible and conforming to these work situation requirements.

Therefore, HR department of IT companies have to take care of team building efforts and enhance the quality of teams, performance based promotion system, is becoming very important while attrition – talented employees leaving the company is increasing the headaches of IT enterprises delivering the solution within the specified deadlines, etc. Programmers find it difficult to build relationships. Programmers has been observed to be quick in seeing the project from the user’s point of view, This can end in team failure. There are many cases of this sort.

From what is stated above, it is clear that the human resources management strategies in IT companies are distinct. This is because the work culture and environment of other companies have to be distant from IT companies. Given these specificities and peculiarities in IT enterprises, the personal qualities and traits expected from a professional are distinct and different from the requirements of other enterprises. These being the mandate, software/computer professionals aspiring for first time employment need to condition their mind and work perceptions in such a way that it will be compatible with behavioral expectations of these IT companies in their, rather unique, work environment.

Generally, a child growing in Kerala is unwittingly exposed to certain work related values such as ‘working less and getting the best remuneration’ as good and acceptable. According to these values, deadlines and work pressures are undesirable. Standards of work output are locally defined. In IT companies, such definitions are in the context of an international work environment.

Another important quality required in prospective job seekers in IT industry is ‘tolerance to ambiguity’. Tolerance to ambiguity is a capability to tolerate behavior deviance from collogues and superiors. In the context of Kerala, by social tuning, a young professional do not undergo positive conditioning on this trait because of ‘Kerala psyche’. Coping with ambiguous situations and contexts are, therefore, generally found low among average young professionals teamwork and this quality.

The new work culture of IT companies also rewards the best talents and persons with the best output. Another related dimension is the survival of the fittest in a globalized work culture. The nature of jobs and their duration are also changing. Compared to the past, contract jobs are becoming a thing of the present in most IT companies.

ABSOLUTE OTIOSE SYSTEMS IN NATION

What the blaze is going on in our country? Is this our fate to undergo all these experiments circulate by our government or our responsibility to follow patriotically? How does it affect in our ordinary life and what remedy has to implement on these implicative systems? How to resolve these problems through practical hierarchy?

It is indeed descending frequently in the country with various complicated systems. What we need to think is that our government policies, which have taken up the unfit major rigid rules like wearing helmet and seat belt while we are using vehicles within the city. If we are using either bike or car, we can’t ride or drive as fast as we can, during the hectic traffic blocks and unlimited traffic signals inside the city. Meantime, it is very hard to wear a helmet during the summer season. Due to this unnecessary set of laws, it is very difficult to preserve our gifted hair as long-term duration.  If we forget to bring helmet or put seat belt while we are on the way, definitely we will get a real outcome from traffic police. In fact, Traffic Police will be charging around one hundred to five hundred rupees for the same defaulting. Eventhough, that particular vehicle doesn’t have any clear updated paper, we do not need to pay any other charge whether we don’t have helmet. If people want their life security, they have right to do their own security and they will definitely do proper precaution for that. There is no need to question anyone’s responsible life. And ofcourse, no need to take any action from any department or government, as it concludes the human being’s freedom and peace of mind to live in this nation. Strict rules should definitely be there, but do not insist anyone without getting any proper and prompt upshot. 

Secondly, there is an unwanted rule of banned smoking in public location. Infact, smoking sale and purchase have still been continuing in this nation. It has given a clear picture to become every gentleman to defaulters by using this habit as illegally. They can’t stop immediately. But these kinds of immediate rigid rules make them a real trespasser. Almost people may be stopped smoking infront of a shop, but they are still using these kinds of activities behind the clear white city.

Actually, all these systematic conditions are not only getting any perfect result, but many people have started thinking to resolve such kind of activities appearing in this nation. Great policy maker may not think simple things, but these causes to increase the useless promotions of government systems and provoke people to bring out their abdicable questions. Almost all systems are simply followed by the people, but generating new policies may take time to absorb and apply on every individual life cycle. Let people live with their own life style and do not disturb or interfere. Intellectual thinking fetches great impact on life. So please comment, SHOULD THESE STOP OR CONTINUE? 

ERRAND OF A COACH

What enters into the preamble of the role of a coach? How it is effective in the slice of sports and games? What is the real indication of a tutor and the way of his instruction to the pupils? All the above interrogations are often coming to mind of people who are involved in the field of sports and games. While we are instructing something about sports and games, a coach should be aware of the morrow of that particular game and he should have penchant on that game.

A real Coach should be a very good Communicator for providing clear instruction and feedback to the team and Individual players. Coach should be a good Teacher for developing the players’ skills and team tactics. Coach should be a very good Motivator for maintaining and controlling interest in players. Coach should be a very good Leader for organizing training, match day activities. Coach should be a very good Psychologist for dealing with various individual’s need and team. Coach should be a very good Manager for dealing with a wide range of players, officials and supporters. Coach should be a very good Sports supporter for developing fitness programs, injury prevention, care and management. Coach should be a very good Selector for selecting the team to best represent the club. Coach should be a very good Student for seeking continually to upgrade his knowledge of the game. Coach should be a very good Public Relations Expert for representing the club at official functions and community activities. Furthermore, there are some fundamental qualities of a coach viz; respect the individual, should have professionalism, capabilities to keep goal setting, using assistants, should have virtual planning for the preparation of innovative sessions, responsible for safety & fitness, should keep communication with learners, should have player discipline, should have potentialities for developing team spirit, should have ability to praising players’ responsibilities and skills, and capability to sustain team plan etc.. Moreover, a coach should summaries key points learnt from the exercise and encourage further practice.

It is a rhythm of coach that he never ever be a negative character or possessing discouraging attitude. Normal theory is that a coach should merely love the game and his players. It is not in a way of compelling students to improve their game and spirit. Real coach should express his views and skills and convert it into the mind of his/her students. Never ever use any abusing language in front of any learners, never demoralize any learner and do not create any misbehaving situations. Praise well, treat well and love them always, so that he could create a quality sportsman or a sportswoman.