DFCA

Little Crickets Super Saturdays Summer Term

Saturday mornings with the children age 3 to 5 years/school reception and seeing them have plenty of fun and sing alongs.

Week 1/ 2 some fun warm ups and we covered front foot drives, front foot drives bucket cricket,

Week 3/4 more fun warm ups followed by bowling/ bowling relays, and the run out game to finish.

all session are fun and progressive in supportive and nurturing environment.

Howzat4kidz Super Saturdays Summer Term

Saturday mornings with the children school years 1 - 4 and seeing them put in so much effort.

Week 3 we saw the progression to the off side game with two batting learning how to call and make decisions whilst playing the drives, and fielding postions and walking in!

Week 4 was bowling week learning how to create the 6, L, T, & play the guitar! for the basic bowling technique and putting that into a relay.

Week 5 we will be working on the jump/bound transitioning into the 6, Ls & Ts and follow through into a bowling relay.

🔥NEW🔥DFCA MAY HALF TERM HOLIDAY COACHING COURSES‼️

✅AVALIABLE NOW‼️

1️⃣ April: Junior & Advanced Cricket ( 26th - 28th May ) 📍Stapleton Cricket Club

2️⃣ SPECIALIST BATTING, FAST & SPIN BOWLING COURSE (children*)… AVAILABLE NOW✅ @(29th May ) 📍 Stapleton Cricket Club

121/122 Coaching also available for Children & Adults.

For ALL information and avaliabilty, please visit our website.
https://www.dfca.co.uk/coaching-courses/book/

*DFCA operates in ‘school year groups’ when classifying age. Please ensure your child booked onto the course of the relevant ‘school year group’, otherwise your booking will be cancelled. Adults does NOT exclusively refer to those aged 18+ and children does NOT exclusively refer to all those aged under 18.

Howzat4kidz Super Saturdays Summer Term

Great to be back on Saturday mornings with the children school years 1 - 4 and seeing them put in so much effort.

Week one was full of fun with continuous cricket and working out what we need to cover in the coming weeks to make the game look like a game for cricket!

We started week 2 with the front foot drives hitting the ball along the floor between the targets with points.

Week 3 will see the progression to the off side game with two batting learning how to call and make decisions whilst playing the drives, and fielding postions and walking in!

Easter Course 2 Junior & Advanced cricket coaching course at Trinity Academy.

Eggcellent week developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox and practicing executing front foot batting skills, boundary hitting skills, using the bola professional bowling machine!

Feilding skills including flat, reaction and boundary catching, over arm throwing and plenty of challenges.

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & Length, slower/vartions, Yorkers/quicker delivery’s

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

We have also carried out 27 hours of 121/122 coaching this week from Trinity Academy, Winterbourne CC, & Six Sixes

Great week at the office!

Easter Course 1 Junior & Advanced cricket coaching course at Collegiate School.

Eggcellent week developing existing skills, adding new skills to their toolbox and practicing executing front foot batting skills, boundary hitting skills,

Feilding skills including flat & reaction catching

Bowling drills and skills to develop repeatable bowling actions, swing/spin line & Length, slower/vartions, Yorkers/quicker delivery’s

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

We also delivered on top 30 hours of 121/122 coaching from Colelgiate and Orchard School to children and adults of all abilites!

A very enjoyable week!

We move onto week 2 of the Easter courses at Trinity Academy for Junior & Advanced Cricket and our end of the week Specilist courses and we still have space!

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

🏏JUNIOR CRICKET (Wed Nights)🏏
📍Trinity Academy
Last night was the last of our 10 weeks and over the last few weeks we have covered the back foot drives, reverse sweep, structured nets, over arms throws and an indoor match on the last week!

We would like to thank all the children for all their efforts this term and making it so much fun to.

Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, and carers for supporting us to.

Enjoy the Easter/Holiday Break and get ready for season 2026!

Thank you from
Damo, Benji, Jack, Ed, & Freya and the DFCA team

As Preseason 2026 comes to an end we look back on the last three months January to March!
We have delivered the following.

Sunday Mornings with Stapleton Cricket Club Adults @ Collegaite School
Specialist Batting Sessions, Structured Nets, and Feidling sessions.

Sunday Afternoons with Bradley Stoke & Almondsbury CC Youth U/11s U/13’s U/15’s Boys & Girls at Collegaite School covering the following
Batting Skills & Drills, Bowling Dills, Feilding, and Structured Nets, we have also provided lesson plans for the coaches to follow through out the year.

Tuesday Nights with Bradley Stoke & Almondsbury CC Adults delivering Feidling Sessions and Structured nets.

Thursdays Nights with the University of Bristol Staff CC at Six Sixes Cricket with Small 3-1 Specialist Batting Sessions

Thursdays Nights with Bishopston CC U/11 U/13 U/15 boys at Bristol Free School, delivering skills sessions for batting and bowling with Structured Nets Sessions, and Lesson Plans for the season ahead.

Fridays Nights with Bishopston CC U/11 U/13 U15 Girls delivering skills sessions for Batting and bowling, Structured Nets, and lesson plans for the season ahead.

We would like to thank all the coaches and players for all their hard work this winter and we hope you reap the rewards in the coming months.

We look forward to starting out doors in the coming weeks!

DFCA BYCL Cricket Ball Collection Night
📍Frenchay Cricket Club
We enter our 14th season as a partnership and we are so proud to helping junior cricket in the local area and now going forward with Steve Windybank in the driving seat!
Big thank you to Sally and Jim Donaldson for all their hard work over the years and support and we wish you all well in your retirement!

We would like to wish all the clubs the very best for 2026 and if you require any further helps with match balls or softer balls please let me know as we would be delighted to help.

Match action of our Under 15s indoor cricket league!

Yesterday saw the final between Lodway & Blagdon. It was another thrilling game between the two sides with Blagdon winning by just 1 wicket. Hopefully another great experience for all the players to be a part of, learning from the good moments and the less good moments. Above all, it was great to see the players enjoy their cricket and represent their clubs so well. This was evident by all teams throughout the league phase as well with a big shout out to all the managers for their efforts in organising their teams!

To see results, league table and player stats, please visit:
https://www.dfca.co.uk/indoor-cricket-league/dfca-bycl-u-15-indoor-cricket-league-/