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7 STAGES OF LTDP IN CRICKET, BIBLIOGRAPHY, Learn To train – boys (9-12)…

7 STAGES OF LTDP IN CRICKET

Active Start - 0 to 6 years old

The first stage of an active start (0-3 years), can be seen as the most important period of human development, laying the foundation for all later development. For example, an important aspect of an infant’s life would be something called tummy time, where the baby is placed on his/her stomach/in a prone position and raised its head with support from the arms. This will help strengthen the infant’s neck and back muscles’ motor movement, which will later be crucial for other complicated movements such as sitting, rolling, and crawling, enhancing motor development. (Ming Wen et al., n.d.)

The main focus of this stage is to make kids active in a fun and everyday life environment. The focus should be on key gross motor movements such as running, throwing, kicking, twisting, and catching. The physical activities that kids participate in can be organized but not overly complicated. These key fundamental movements should be the main focus but also link them into play. (SASCOC_SA-Sport-for-Life-Long-Term-Participant-Development, n.d.)

This stage enhances the development of brain functioning, coordination, imagination, social skills, emotions, and gross motor skills. It can also help children build confidence, develop posture and balance, build strong bones and muscles, develop movement skills and achieve a healthy weight.

At this stage, it may be a bit too early to have any game-time scenarios relating to cricket.

The aim in this stage will be mainly focused on skills such as striking/hitting the ball, catching, and throwing. To achieve this, the sessions will be more structured and on a bigger and broader platform. We still maintain the fun aspect of things with little to no competition yet. From here we can also start to incorporate bodyweight exercises.

Learning all fundamental movement skills and building overall motor skills. At this crucial age, after the foundation has been set in terms of movement, we now enhance this movement by introducing the ABCs of movement, which is, Agility, Balance, Coordination, and Speed.

Sessions involving the development of this stage should be a regular occurrence for about 3-4 sessions per week which be better for overall development because the more they play the quicker they learn.

Although we want the kids to play cricket, we should encourage them to play other sports too, as this could help with further skills development that can be applied to cricket.

So again, in this sports-specific code, mini cricket can be essential as it will further develop endurance, speed, and power. Strength work should be minimized to body-weight exercises only. Mini cricket will increase the children’s overall athletic ability but also improve basic striking, catching, and throwing skills in a fun environment and not so much on technical ability, which comes at a later stage.

Learn To train – boys (9-12) girls (8-11).

This stage children now hit a growth spurt, and usually transition from softball cricket to hard-ball cricket. The main aim is to develop skills specifically related to cricket: batting, bowling, fielding, and wicketkeeping. However, children should be encouraged to play other sports to further develop movement skills and athletic abilities, that could potentially assist them or carry over to cricket. Playing multiple sports will also give them good body condition, as well as help their body and muscles develop.

Avoiding specialization at this stage (especially when one discovers a talented player), as it could potentially have a negative effect later in the child’s life, and the child may end up resenting the game and quitting much sooner before reaching a professional level. Specialization at a young age can also lead to many injuries as well as burnout.

Emotional – introduction to mental skill and toughness training. Understand winning and losing and rewards for winning. Positive attitudes on and off the pitch.

Emphasis should be made on training and practice, and learning how to practice, and not as much on results and outcomes of games. Practice and training become more structured, but can also be game based.

Practice and games are played in a little more depth of the game, to increase the understanding of the game and to create some match awareness.

By the end of this stage, many children will be playing for their schools, club teams, and some even provincial teams (if talent is discovered), however, the main focus is still leaning toward learning to train and developing skills, rather than competition.

This stage looks at the further development of cricket-specific skills and focuses on “building the engine” of physical conditioning for sporting performance, including key fitness components of endurance, flexibility, strength, and speed.

Increased technical work on front and back foot offense and defense techniques, pace, and spin bowling techniques, enhanced wicket-keeping and fielding skills, effective practice techniques, raising awareness, and increasing responsibility by setting and reaching individual goals.

Fitness test protocols were established to benchmark and monitor the development of physical capacities.

Physical – flexibility program that is monitored (5-6) times a week if it needs to be improved. The onset of PHV (peak height velocity) which is an important reference point that can determine the extent and frequency of training. Fitness test protocols were established to benchmark and monitor the development of physical capacities.

Emotional –  ensuring positive mindsets and attitudes on and off the field. Children can be taught how their lifestyle can affect their skills development and physical conditioning. So introducing good nutrition and how to balance studies and sports will be essential to emotional well-being.

The number of matches played by the children increases massively.

Players will start to play different formats of the game, and coaches need to discuss with the players these different formats, their rules and regulations, and the different game plan and approach for each format.

Close to the end of this phase, the place can establish an aerobic base, develop speed and strength and craft their cricket skills to improve and perform better. At the end of this phase we may also find players who are now specializing in cricket, and further specializing in a specific role or position within the team, for example, opening batsmen, slip fielder, wicket-keeper, etc.

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Cognitive – extension of mental skills and mental toughness in training. Remedial program support to enhance technical skills or other areas of skills deficiency. Incorporate decision-making skills in training, and reinforce rules and regulations of the game with much more precision.