Thursday 1st April 2010

Derbyshire Girls Train with England Captain

The girls' specialist clinics players which include Jess Bakewell (12), Emily Ball (13), Georgia Ball (13), Holly Beresford (13), Eleanor Cheatle (9), Sarah Glenn (10), Amber Hodge (11), Megan Pittman (11) and Nina Smedley (13) had the tremendous opportunity to train with Charlotte Edwards on Saturday 27^th March 2010.

The girls followed their typical programme of 1-2 coaching sessions which gave the bowlers the chance to bowl at Charlotte and receive some feedback. The batters then received some guidance on playing spin bowling. Charlotte then led a session on close catching.

Amber Hodge said “I have met Charlotte before on the National Speedstars and it was brilliant to get the opportunity to train with her again. I was so surprised to see her when I walked in the door”.

To finish the session there was a question and answer session with Charlotte, the players and parents. This was a brilliant end to the winter training and Charlotte promised to return to check on the girls progress in the summer.

The girls’ ‘specialist clinics’ is a programme to work with a small group of girls to try and raise the quality of girls’ squads in Derbyshire and to give the girls an opportunity to progress to the next level of the player pathway. There are currently nine girls training on the specialist clinics who have trained four times over the winter for three hours on top of their U13 training programme. The girls receive 1-1 or 1-2 sessions, fitness work, position specific fielding drills, skill sets and knowledge sessions.