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Cricket Leinster’s development team has been working hard during the autumn and winter months to build upon the busy summer of cricket in the region. Even as the weather turned sour, the development team did not stop and were still visiting schools all over Leinster.
Scoil Áine in Lucan suffered more than most, with a flooded yard leading to 120 pupils re-locating indoors for what became a fast, frantic and fun indoor session. That wasn’t the end of the problems though, as just when they thought the weather was dry enough to let them back outside, the fog struck. Luckily for the pupils the coach had brought along some new, bright, pink balls, which allowed the session to go ahead in the fog!

On the other side of Dublin, in Fingal, there has been a lot of excitement added to sessions with the introduction of the ‘Top Class Throw’ competition right across the area.

The competition has added an edge to sessions all over Fingal, with each school developing their skills and working towards a throwing competition, with each class in the school getting a score for how many times they hit the target.

It has helped create some friendly competition within each school, but also across Fingal, with a leaderboard for the whole region showing the ‘Top Class’ at the moment is Mrs Connelly’s 6th Class in St Luke’s National School.

Away from schools there have also been plenty of sessions for those already involved in club cricket. Leinster girls under 13’s are still running outdoor sessions on Saturday mornings, with sessions moving indoors in January.

The provincial squads are now eight weeks into their winter programmes, and running parallel to those session are the Cricket Leinster coaching clinics open to club cricketers. Currently the under 14 and under 15 boys sessions are running on Friday evenings in St Columba’s College and King’s Hospital.
St Mary’s college in Rathmines has been hosting under 11 girls on Sunday mornings between 9-11am, with the under 13 girls sessions to run between 9 and 1pm in the same venue after Christmas.

These coaching clinics are open to club cricketers in the region who were not selected in Provincial squads and provide juniors with the chance to improve their skills and knowledge by working with Cricket Leinster’s coaching team.

Cricket Leinster is also expanding their busy programme and are currently advertising for a new Community Cricket Development Officer to work in the Dublin city area. Applications are open until 5th December, and it is hoped the new coach will start in January. For more information about the job and how to apply, click here.

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