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West Indies Cricket and Club Cricket

Choosing and joining a club, nets and match routines, batting, bowling and fielding skills, kit and bat care, following West Indies fixtures from anywhere, Test and CPL trips, and coaching, umpiring and captaincy.

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

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

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

50

Projects

200

Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

West Indies Cricket and Club Cricket

Following West Indies cricket and playing club cricket: fixtures and tours, joining a club, nets and training, kit, and the social side of the game.

  1. Finding a cricket club that fits you
  2. Joining the club and registering to play
  3. Laws of cricket every club player needs
  4. First cricket kit on a sensible budget
  5. Helmet and protective equipment safety check
  6. Pre-season fitness and medical check
  7. West Indies fixture calendar for the year
  8. Choosing how to watch and listen from abroad
  9. Setting your goals for the cricket season
  10. Weekly nets session routine
  11. Match availability and selection replies
  12. Batting and bowling stats log
  13. Kit cleaning and repair between matches
  14. Fast bowler workload and recovery routine
  15. Weekly West Indies cricket round-up
  16. Club subs, match fees and cricket budget
  17. Winter indoor training block
  18. End-of-season review and next-season plan
  19. Knocking in and caring for a new bat
  20. Back-foot play against short-pitched bowling
  21. Using your feet against spin
  22. Building a repeatable bowling action
  23. Learning to bowl finger or wrist spin
  24. Catching and ground fielding drills
  25. Wicketkeeping basics for club cricket
  26. Running between the wickets and calling
  27. Scoring a match by hand and on an app
  28. West Indies cricket history reading and viewing list
  29. Choosing an upgrade bat, English or Kashmir willow
  30. Video review of your batting or bowling
  31. One-to-one coaching lessons decision
  32. Curing front-foot no-balls
  33. Choosing between league, midweek T20 and softball cricket
  34. Moving up a team or changing clubs
  35. Watching a Test at a Caribbean ground
  36. A day out supporting West Indies on tour abroad
  37. Caribbean Premier League match trip
  38. Preparing for a cup final or knockout game
  39. Planning a club cricket tour
  40. Club family day and cricket tea
  41. Getting your child started in junior cricket
  42. Coming back to cricket after years away
  43. Joining a women's or girls' cricket team
  44. Finding cricket after moving to a new country
  45. Fitting cricket around work and family
  46. Veterans cricket for over-40s
  47. Earning an entry-level coaching qualification
  48. Training to umpire league matches
  49. Captaining a club side
  50. Taking on a club committee role

Where it starts.

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

Finding a cricket club that fits you

Clubs differ more than newcomers expect: some run four Saturday elevens and a thriving junior section, others scrape a side together every week, and the travel to away grounds can eat a whole day. Visiting two or three clubs before signing up, and asking which team you would realistically start in, saves a season spent carrying drinks in the wrong place.

First tasks

  • List the clubs within forty minutes of home and the leagues they play in
  • Message two clubs to ask when their nets nights run
  • Visit nets or a home match at each shortlisted club
  • Ask each captain which team a player of your standard would start in

Joining the club and registering to play

Most leagues will not let you take the field until you are a paid member and registered on the league's player system, and some have cut-off dates weeks before the first fixture. Getting the paperwork, the subs and the club's group chat sorted early means you are picked from week one rather than left off a team sheet over an admin gap.

First tasks

  • Ask the membership secretary for the joining form and fee options
  • Pay the membership fee or the first instalment
  • Check with the fixtures secretary that your league registration has gone through
  • Join the club's availability app and introduce yourself in the group chat

Laws of cricket every club player needs

Plenty of keen players have watched hundreds of hours of Test cricket and still cannot explain leg before wicket, how a wide is judged in a league match compared with a T20, or whether a batter can be run out off a no-ball. Knowing the handful of Laws that decide club games stops arguments, helps when you take your turn umpiring at square leg, and makes you sharper in the field.

First tasks

  • Download the current Laws of Cricket and your league's playing regulations
  • Read the Laws on LBW, no-balls and wides first
  • List three places where your league's rules differ from the Laws
  • Take an online Laws of Cricket quiz and note the questions you missed

Make it yours.

Install West Indies Cricket and Club Cricket, 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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