How to Be a Cricketer

This article explains steps provided by cricketing governing bodies on how to become a cricketer from a young age, around 5 through to adulthood.
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Things You'll Need

  • For young players basic exercise clothing and shoes. For older players cricket uniforms and shoes, clubs usually supply other equipment.
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Instructions

  1. How to become a cricketer

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      Becoming a cricketer at any level, from amateur to professional takes many things, including hard work, practice and patience. A player is also required to trust the coaching of local clubs and plans laid out by regional and national cricket bodies.

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      Find a club. Cicket is a team sport, therefore you need to find a team to play with. Cricket boards and federations in most countries have websites providing details of clubs affiliated to that countries federation. For example, the English and Welsh Cricket Board (ECB) provides a section on its website called Play Cricket, helping amateur cricketers find local clubs. The USA Cricket Association splits its website into regions to aid the search for local teams. The majority of clubs operate many teams, allowing players of different skill and age levels the opportunity to play with players of similar levels.

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      Kwik Cricket. As a young player the chances are you will begin your journey to becoming a cricketer playing with friends in games like Kwik Cricket. Aimed at players between 5 and 11 the game is played with a plastic bat and ball between two teams of eight players. All players bat, bowl and field giving young players the opportunity to learn the basic skills needed to progress to higher levels of the game.

      INTER CRICKET

      In 1998 a study group formed by the ECB created Inter Cricket as a way of bridging the gap between Kwik Cricket and hard ball cricket. Played between the ages of 12 and 14 Inter is played by both boys and girls with a soft ball bowled from one end.

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      Training to train. According to the ECB a crucial stage of development for young players is between 12 and 16 for boys and 11 to 15 for girls, this is called the training to train stage. A young player at this stage should be coached toward personal development at a local cricket club to avoid the dangers of over-competing and burnout. This stage focuses on creating a physical condition for cricket performance in the future alongside teaching lifestyle skills such as health and nutrition to aid future development.

      Competition and competitive decelopment

      At this point men are 16 to 18 and women 15 to 17, coaching becomes more of about managing a players environment tha coaching every movement. In the preceding years cricket was played 20 percent of a young persons exercise time, as specialization in cricket takes place other sports are phased out and used only to provide interesting training techniques. For those especially gifted players national representation begins at Under 15 level, providing new skills such as peaking for special events.

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      After the age of 18 men and women carry on with individual training aimed at the role taken on by a player. Although not everyone is lucky enough to represent their country players but by following plans laid out by groups such as the ECB and Cricket Australia a player can develop to their full potential within the sport geared toward playing for a local club, county/state club or international team.