Cricket Coaching: An Ecological Approach | Dr Rob Gray

Lecture 3 of the #ScienceOfCricket series. Rob Gray discusses an ecological approach to cricket practice design and coaching. This includes the discussion of different types of variability and constraints. Cricket bowling and cricket bating research are discussed, as well as what cricket can learn from baseball research.

00:00 Science of Cricket: Expert Lectures
00:16 An Ecological Approach to Cricket Practice Design and Coaching
00:54 Theoretical approaches to skill acquisition and the role of variability
07:23 An alternative approach to skill acquisition
09:30 The purpose of variability in practice
12:48 Cricket and baseball research findings: bowling / pitching
20:22 Cricket and baseball research findings: batting
23:25 How can we apply biomechanics to improve cricket performance?
28:20 Get the task difficulty right
32:22 Practice design and the constraints-led approach to coaching
45:32 Other Science of Cricket Lectures

Rob Gray:

Stuart McErlain-Naylor:

[asuranfg]

Thank you for an immensely enlightening presentation. I do not understand cricket, I train students on surviving violent conflict. These ideas are easily transferable and entirely relevant to my field.

[abhishekchauhan]

Thanks a lot for sharing the cool work.