Word: chappelle
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That path is littered, Chappell claims, with disaffected kids who are "leaving the sport in droves." Playing standards, he adds, are declining at many levels. The knee-jerk retort - What could be wrong with a system that's kept Australian teams at the peak of world cricket since the mid...
Some 436,000 people play organized cricket in Australia, and junior numbers have been stable for the past five years, says Cricket Australia. But like most sports, cricket loses a disproportionate number of players in their early teens. Many of these could be retained, Chappell argues, if cricket went easier...
(2 of 3) There's a better way, says Chappell, who applied it inadvertently to his younger son 15 years ago. Pestered by Jonathan for cricket lessons, Chappell conducted them on the family tennis court, where the boy's goal was to score 100 and the father's was to...
The risks of overcoaching apply to older players, too, Chappell argues. In 1988, Ian Frazer was 22 when he became one of the first inductees into the Adelaide-based Cricket Academy, where the aim was to prepare the country's most promising talent for international competition. Frazer says he began...
Elite players? During a five-year term, which ended last year, as South Australia's state manager of cricket, Chappell was alarmed to see what practice involved for them. If they weren't perfunctorily engaged in the nets they were doing reductional drills - targeting one segment of a movement. Many...