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Club Cricket Season

Club, bat, helmet and registration sorted, then the weekly machinery of selection, nets with a purpose, bowling workloads, rotas and fees, plus the skills and events that make a good club cricket season.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Club Cricket Season, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before starting a new training programme, especially if you have a health condition, are pregnant or are coming back from an injury, and stop if you feel pain, dizziness or chest discomfort.

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Starter tasks

🏋️ Fitness & Sport

Club Cricket Season

Playing a club cricket season with nets practice, batting and bowling development, fitness and match availability for players and captains.

  1. Finding a club and the right XI for your level
  2. Choosing and knocking in a cricket bat
  3. Protective kit that fits and meets the safety standard
  4. Cricket shoes for spikes, rubbers and indoor nets
  5. Membership, match fees and league registration
  6. Pre-season cricket fitness baseline
  7. Declaring season availability up front
  8. Agreeing your role in the side
  9. Head injury and ball strike plan for the ground
  10. Cricket bag checklist for match days
  11. Weekly team selection and availability chase
  12. Nets sessions with a written purpose
  13. Personal batting and bowling record
  14. Pace bowling workload tracker
  15. Two midweek cricket conditioning sessions
  16. Teas, scoring and umpiring duty rota
  17. Scorecard and result submission after every match
  18. Match fees, kitty and fines collection
  19. Bat, pads and spikes maintenance routine
  20. Helping the groundsman with rolling and covers
  21. Front foot defence and straight drive
  22. Playing spin with your feet and the sweep
  23. Facing the short ball safely
  24. A repeatable bowling action and run-up
  25. Adding a slower ball or a second spin variation
  26. Catching and ground fielding drills
  27. Running between the wickets and calling
  28. Laws of cricket refresher for player umpires
  29. Wicketkeeping basics for a stand-in keeper
  30. Phone video review of your batting
  31. Saturday league or Sunday friendly cricket
  32. Winter indoor nets and bowling machine plan
  33. Field-setting plans for each bowler
  34. Batting order and innings plan for limited-overs games
  35. Changing clubs between seasons
  36. Pre-ball routine for batting concentration
  37. Pre-season friendly and first league fixture
  38. Cup knockout and final preparation
  39. Cricket tour weekend
  40. Club T20 festival or six-a-side day
  41. End-of-season awards and averages
  42. End-of-season review and winter plan
  43. Coming back to cricket after years away
  44. Playing club cricket with a young family
  45. Moving into over-40s and over-50s cricket
  46. Joining or starting a women's club side
  47. Captaining a club XI for the first time
  48. Qualifying as a club umpire or scorer
  49. Multi-season dismissal and scoring analysis
  50. Pace bowling speed and strength programme

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Finding a club and the right XI for your level

Clubs often run three or four Saturday sides plus Sunday, midweek T20 and social teams, and the XI you join decides how much you bat, bowl and enjoy the summer. Visiting two or three clubs during winter or pre-season nets, and being honest about your standard and how many weekends you can give, puts you in a side where you play every week rather than carrying the drinks.

First tasks

  • List clubs within 30 minutes of home and the XIs each one runs
  • Message two club secretaries to ask about winter or pre-season nets
  • Attend nets at two clubs and note the standard and the welcome
  • Tell the chosen club's selection chair your role and availability

Choosing and knocking in a cricket bat

Weight, handle length and pick-up matter more than the sticker, and a bat that is too heavy slows every shot and leaves your hands late on the short ball. New willow also needs knocking in before it faces a hard ball, or the face can crack in its first innings.

First tasks

  • Pick up at least five bats in a shop and note the weights that feel quick
  • Set a budget and compare English and Kashmir willow at that price
  • Knock in the face, edges and toe with a mallet in short sessions
  • Face an hour of throwdowns with old balls before the bat's first match

Protective kit that fits and meets the safety standard

Helmet, pads, gloves, thigh guard and box are the difference between a bruise and a broken finger or worse, and second-hand kit is often the wrong size or past its safe life. Checking each item for fit, and the helmet against the current national standard (BS 7928 in the UK, for example), before the first hard-ball net puts safety ahead of the season rather than behind an injury.

First tasks

  • Lay out all your protective kit and check each item for cracks and wear
  • Check the helmet label for the current safety standard and manufacture date
  • Try on pads, gloves and thigh guard in your batting stance
  • Replace any item that fails the check before the first hard-ball net

Make it yours.

Install Club Cricket Season, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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