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Specialist Batting, Fast, Spin, Bowling, & Wicket Keeping Summer Sizzler 2 cricket coaching courses at Stapleton CC brought our summer holiday courses to an end after 5 lovely weeks in the sun

Batting we covered the front foot drives and pull shot allowing players to explore scoring options with power or timing and putting it under pressure with some fun challenges.

The Specialist Fast bowling session starting with a good warm up for improving running techniques, power and balance, then we progressed to the players working on shining/ smoothing the ball to allow lateral movement through the air, why the front arm is important to helping to generate pace and drills to assist with this, we then moved onto Good Line and Length, Yorkers, and Variations, plenty to explore and take away to work on.

The specialist spin session explored the different types of spin and how their individual bowling actions can help aid spin and help consistency. The session progressed utilising the different types of spin and individual bowling actions to explore bowling at different paces, bowling from different angles, spinning the ball in different directions and bowling in competition. It was Spin to Win!

Wicket Keeping working on the basics of standing up and back using a variety methods to test the keepers reactions, watching with distractions to make it harder!

Autmn courses are live to book on the website and we look forward to seeing you all then
https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/book/

Junior & Advanced cricket coaching courses summer sizzler 5 @ Stapleton CC.

As the sun sets on our summer sizzler courses 2026 it’s been a scorcher and no rain for the first time in 23 years!
Thank you to everyone that has supported us over the summer it is very much appreciated from all of us and we hope you enjoyed your days with us.

Week 5 and a Super 4 days in the sunshine developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox covering batting, bowling & fielding skills as well as nets and match practice to help transfer skills into game environments!

This weeks batting skills centred around developing plans to help decision making particularly when looking to build an innings.

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & length with challenges that are fun tests the bowlers understanding of how to bowl more consistently.

Ground feilding was developed in a game context with an overarm and underarm throwing and backing up game, followed by adding batters to the equation to create game content.

We have had structured nets testing the players and allowing them to expore and adapt to different scenarios finishing with a lovely match on Thursday afternoon.

A very enjoyable 4 days!

Please note all our Autmn courses are now live to book on the website

https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/

Junior & Advanced cricket coaching courses summer sizzler 4 @ Stapleton CC.

Week 4 and a Super 3 days in the sunshine developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox covering batting, bowling & fielding skills as well as nets and match practice to help transfer skills into game environments!

This weeks batting skills centred around developing plans to help decision making particularly when looking to build an innings. We also looked at batting techniques on the front foot drives and defence developing back foot scoring options as well.

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & length and variation’s with challenges that are fun tests the bowlers understanding of how to bowl more consistently.

Developing strong over arm throwing techniques to take those important run outs or create pressure. This was developed further in a game context with an overarm throwing and backing up game!

We have had structured nets testing the players and allowing them to expore and adapt to different scenarios finishing with a lovely match on Thursday afternoon.

A very enjoyable 3 days!
Bring on Summer Sizzler 5

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Specialist Batting, Fast, Spin, Bowling, & Wicket Keeping Summer Sizzler 1 cricket coaching courses at Stapleton CC .

Great way to end the week with 4 great sessions.

Batting allowing players to explore the following areas last week on the front foot drives, hitting over the top and down the ground, and a super test on drive, defend, leave testing the batters on shot selection, and concentration!

The Specialist Fast bowling session saw the players working on seam presentation and shining/ smoothing the ball to allow lateral movement through the air, why the front arm is important to helping to generate pace and drills to assist with this, we then moved onto Good Line and Length, Yorkers, and Variations, plenty to explore and take away to work on.

Specialist
The specialist spin session explored the different types of spin and how their individual bowling actions can help aid spin and help consistency. The session progressed utilising the different types of spin and individual bowling actions to explore bowling at different paces, bowling from different angles, spinning the ball in different directions and bowling in competition. It was Spin to Win!

Wicket Keeping working on the basics of standing up and back using a variety methods to test the keepers reactions, watching with distractions to make it harder!

We look forward to week 2 this coming Friday and we still have places available

https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/book/

Howzat4kidz Summer Sizzler from Stapleton CC
Small group coaching introducing the children to the basics of batting, bowling, and fielding with plenty of small sided games and challenges whilst keeping it all light hearted and fun.

We look forward to our winter super Saturday courses starting September at Orchard School
https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/book/

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Junior & Advanced cricket coaching courses summer sizzler 3 @ Stapleton CC.

Week 3 and a Super 4 days in the sunshine developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox covering batting, bowling & fielding skills as well as nets and match practice to help transfer skills into game environments!

This weeks batting skills centred around developing plans to help decision making particularly when looking to build an innings. We also looked at batting techniques on the front foot drives and developing the pull shot with scoring options available

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & length and variation’s with challenges that are fun tests the bowlers understanding of how to bowl more consistently.

Developing strong over arm throwing techniques to take those important run outs or create pressure. This was developed further in a game context with an overarm throwing and backing up game!

We have had structured nets testing the players and allowing them to expore and adapt to different scenarios finishing with a lovely match on Friday afternoon.

A very enjoyable 5 days!
Bring on Summer Sizzler 4!

https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/

Junior & Advanced cricket coaching courses summer sizzler 2 @ Stapleton CC.

Week 3 and a Super 5 days in the sunshine developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox covering batting, bowling & fielding skills as well as nets and match practice to help transfer skills into game environments!

This weeks batting skills centred around developing plans to help decision making particularly when looking to build an innings. We also looked at batting techniques on the front foot coming down the wicket and hitting over the top and developing the sweep shot and scoring options available

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & length and variation’s with challenges that are fun tests the bowlers understanding of how to bowl more consistently.

Developing strong over arm throwing techniques to take those important run outs or create pressure.

We have had structured nets testing the players and allowing them to expore and adapt to different scenarios

A very enjoyable 5 days!
Bring on Summer Sizzler 3!

https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/

Junior & Advanced cricket coaching courses summer sizzler 1 at Stapleton CC.

Super 4 days in the sunshine developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox covering batting, bowling & fielding skills as well as nets and match practice to help transfer skills into game environments!

This weeks batting skills centred around developing plans to help decision making particularly when looking to build an innings. We also looked at batting techniques on the front foot developing scoring options and tightening up forward defences to allow batters to occupy the crease for longer!

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & length and challenges that are fun tests the bowlers understanding of how to bowl more consistently.

We had plenty of volume for catches from close catching to flat catching to high catching and the odd diving catch! Developing strong catching techniques to take those important catches!

We had structured nets and a match testing the players and allowing them to expore and adapt to different scenarios

A very enjoyable 4 days!

Little Crickets 3 - 5 year olds Super Saturdays came to end for the summer term at Orchard School last Saturday.

Over the last few weeks we have covered more dynamic warm ups, bucket cricket match with the children batting bowling and feilding.
Thank you to all the children and parents that have made it so much fun, it’s been great to see the journey of the children’s improvement through out the 9 weeks!

We look forward to seeing you again in September!

Have a great summer holiday!