Dates set for our Easter coaching clinics
Wed 25 Feb 2015
Lewis Hill was delighted to be involved in Leicestershire County Cricket Club’s first set of half-term coaching clinics in 2015.
The Mike Turner Indoor Cricket Centre is now being run by Dips Patel and a number of Leicestershire CCC players lent a hand at the sessions, including Hill, who used to come to the clinics at Grace Road when he was growing up.
He said: “It was nice to get involved and meet some of the youngsters. I can remember coming to those sorts of sessions when I was growing up. It was always good to have the pros coming in to say hello and passing on their knowledge and experience.
“A lot of the children asked good questions too, like ‘who is the fastest bowler you’ve faced’, so it was nice to talk to them about cricket. It all brought back memories of when I started out in the game because I didn’t play any representative cricket with Leicestershire until I reached under 15 level.
“I used to come along to all of those coaching sessions in the holidays and then made it through into the age-group setup, Academy, and then onto the full staff. I enjoyed coming to them and felt that they helped me a lot with my development.”
Hill hopes that more children will come to the next set of clinics, which will run over the Easter Holidays at Grace Road.
He said: “It was nice to see so many youngsters coming down to Grace Road and long may that continue. You never know, the next player to play for Leicestershire and England may have been at one of those sessions. Youngsters will improve a lot from coming to them as I remember I did when I was growing up.”
The dates and times for the next set of coaching clinics is now available, and you can get 10% discount by signing up before March, 20. The information is available to download below:
To book, please email Coaching Secretary Pat McConnell at coachingsecretary@leicestershireccc.co.uk or call 0116 2832128.
