Diamonds in the Bush

The 2008 Diamonds in the Bush program is to be held on June 30th and July 1st.

Venues June 30th Warrnambool Indoor Cricket Centre 10-4 (selected players notified by mail),

June 30th 7pm Hamilton Indoor Leisure and Aquatic Centre for all coaches, parents and players batting to spin.

July 1st Warracknabeal Football Ground 11-5pm (selected players notified by mail) 

Coaching Files.  Feel free to download the following files.

Batting.pdf

Fast Bowling.pdf

Fielding.pdf

Wicketkeeping.pdf

Spin Bowling.pdf

All players now have several areas to work on prior to the September school holiday trials.

Chris Harris with the Warrnambool group

Gerard Denton explains a few of the finer points to quick Justin McPhee

Shippy and the boys from Horsham

16th May 2006  The following players have been selected to attend the 'Diamonds in the Bush' coaching program conducted by the Victorian Bushranger panel headed by Greg Shipperd Victorian Coach.  Players must notify Regional Manager Stephen Field of their intention to attend or not by May 31st.  This can be done by leaving a message on 0417342332 or email sfield@cricketvictoria.com.au

The program will be very much concentrated on batting and fast bowling and players are advised to have some practice prior as it will be an intensive day.

Players to attend the Warrnambool venue 19th June commencing at 10am at the indoor cricket centre and concluding around 3pm are Tom Batten, Daniel OKeefe, Luke Evans, Tim Hunt, Ben Clark, Easton Wood, Jordie McKenzie, Sam Batten, Matt and Leigh Billington, Ben Grinter, James Tabalton, Yoxford Rous, Cameron Mather, Josh Purcell, Darcy Smythe and Daniel Zeunert.  All players must wear white cricket tops and either track pants or shorts and bring own gear and lunch (or buy).

Players to attend the Horsham venue 20th June commencing at 11am at the Horsham Junior College nets on Baillie St and concluding around 4pm are Leigh Marklew, Harry Young, Nathan Grant, Michael Ross, Carl Joyce, Jacob Hatcher, Torin Petrie, Brent Gilmour, Nathan Smith, Sean Smith, Grant Waldron and Jason Kannar.  All players are to wear white cricket tops and track pants or shorts and bring own gear and lunch.

14th may 2006

This season's program promises to be the best yet with Victorian coach Greg Shipperd, Gerard Denton, Nick Jewell, Ben Oliver all from the bushrangers attending.

The best 15 and 16 year olds and a couple of 17 year olds in the region will be in attendance over two days June 19th and June 20th in Warrnambool and Horsham.

Both days will also include an evening session for all pathway players, parents and junior senior coaches on batting held by the same panel.

Players selected and the venue they are to attend will be listed shortly here.

For further information call Stephen Field Regional Manager 0417342332 or email sfield@cricketvictoria.com.au

The final Diamonds in the Rough session was held at the Warrnambool Indoor Cricket Centre on September the 4th. The session ended on a good note with Stephen Gibson smashing a lofted off drive through the net and into the glass door at the cricket centre(the glass now needs to be replaced). We had a good session on the bowling machine with short balls, moving into the ball when we were confident from the cut shot to the fully blown pull shot. After a few bruises and rubber marks on our helmets we had a break and got into some advanced fielding. We left our gear on and started a new drill. Stephen would hit a tennis ball with a racquet at one person very close to him and the rest of us had to try and catch the ball if they missed or when it ricoched off them. After more bruises and helmet marks we had  another break. We started back on the bowling machine now on drives. We had the machine cranked up to 80 miles an hour so it was really eye opening stuff. We finished off the session bowling to each other and practising lofted shots. On the final ball of the entire day Gibbo needed 4 runs to win and he smashed it into the window for 6. Players are now concentrating on the up and coming selection trials in September.