Chris shares loads of important soundbites including the importance of developing your ability to solve problems as a cricketer eg where and how to score a single and rotate the strike.

He stresses the importance of knowing your audience as a coach and teacher and being able to adapt your approach according to their needs.

He also shares this simple yet powerful coaching mantra:

"Coach bowlers from the feet up + coach batters from the head down"

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Nathan is very much a coach who is interested in making a positive difference to the person he coaches by adopting a personable, approachable and relaxed style. By his own admission Nathan has picked up learnings from different people along his journey and continues to do this currently. He is a big believer in bringing music into practice as he has seen the positive impact it has had with lifting the energy and atmosphere.

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Chris is someone who by his own admission has to pinch himself to recognise his achievements in the coaching world. Having had a number of set backs along the way and moments when he did not think he was going to make it, he picked himself up and kept on going and is now relishing the opportunity with Derbyshire CCC.

In this episode Chris looks back on his time when he first started out coaching in primary schools and the time when he coached disabled cricketers as pivotal moments in his coaching journey.

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James grew up in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and played cricket with his three brothers as a youngster and ended up going to play at his local club. He still loves the game as much today as when he first started playing but sees that money and time have become prohibitors to people to getting into the game and he wants to do something constructive to address this: hence starting Community Cricket Enterprise where the focus will be on shorter format matches for kids and adults, costs will be kept low, coaching approaches will use the likes of baseball to help kids learn to hit powerfully and in control, and where the importance of human interaction and connections will be central to it. Want to find out more, please listen to this episode.

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From the age of seven Stevie had a poster on his bedroom wall saying he wanted to play cricket for Scotland and by the age of 20 he realised this dream when he represented Scotland 4 times before dislocating his shoulder and struggling with his fitness thereafter.

He studied Sports Science at University and went on to do a Masters in Performance Psych seeking the applied aspect of it and as a coach he looks to help take pressure off players, help them enjoy the game, express themselves and focus on a process to keep themselves grounded and in a bubble.

As a coach he is very keen to help people achieve their goals, achieve their potential and be involved along the way in their journey.

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Ben coaches in the Dorset County Age Group Pathway and is also Head of Cricket at King's School Bruton where both boys and girls cricket is thriving. He sees that communication as a coach is vital in relation to players, parents and other coaches. He also adopts an honesty policy when communicating decisions relating to a player or providing feedback and in our chat explains how he does this.

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Madeleine first got involved with her local cricket club as a parent when her 7 year old son expressed an interest in playing. 30 years on she is Chair of a very successful junior section and in her time in this role has overseen and led on decisions which have considerably moved the junior section of the club forwards.

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Tom is a second year undergraduate University student at the Uni of Worcester and yet he has already started his own cricket coaching company called Vortex; he has already worked in county age group coaching with Herefordshire; and he has already established a base from which he can coach 121 at a club. How has he done this? Simply put, Tom has achieved this by approaching decision makers and talking to them about what he can offer and how this will help others. This is no small thing and something that will set him up well for the future the next chapter of which sees him about to go off to New Zealand to coach.

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In this episode we listen to Dinesha, Mike and Marty and what their underpinning coaching principles are, why they enjoy coaching so much and much more. It is fascinating to hear from three coaches who place high levels of importance on the human side of coaching and we hear things like heart-performance, emotional intelligence, mental wellbeing etc

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