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Richard O'Sullivan visits Ireland
Richard O'Sullivan
North County’s indoor centre hosted five hours of coaching for both U12’s & U14’s over the two days. The centre has been built specifically as a cricket centre, with superb lighting, four wide cricket lanes and full length run-ups. With this quality of facility Brían, Richard and the Leinster team of coaches were able to offer the players many opportunities to improve their technical ability and knowledge of the game. Richard led sessions on grooving both batting and bowling skills, with groups of no more than two players were constantly active. This was interspersed with exciting new fielding and running between the wicket drills and each session finished with a conditioned game applying what subjects had been covered during the session. The U14 group also applied these skills to a hardball net situation and Richard was very impressed by the standard. These sessions come at the end of the Leinster winter coaching programme and certainly evidenced the fantastic work being done by Brían his team of coaches.
On the first evening Richard also able to help Pembroke CC with a pre-season training evening and on the second evening he tutored the ECB Coach Development Workshop ‘Introduction to Net Coaching’ at Merrion CC. This was attended by six Level 1 coaches looking to further their effectiveness in the net situation. Hopefully these coaches will also go on to the next ECB Level 2 course to be held Ireland in 2004-5. |
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Two days over the Easter school holidays provided the perfect opportunity for ECC coach Richard O’Sullivan to assist Brían O’Rourke the Leinster Cricket Development Officer with his holiday coaching and coach education programs. 
Richard was also able as author of ‘ICC Cricket’, an illustration only booklet covering the Spirit of the Cricket as well the techniques and umpiring signals, to use the booklet as a quiz to reinforce these important cricket issues. Combined with the use of the fantastic ECB resource the ‘Howzat’ CD-Rom which showed the players field placing and explored the jargon used in cricket the two days were action packed. Leinster is holding further sessions for the U11, U13 & U15 squads the following week when Brían and his team will cover many of the same topics.