Pre-season Training

Seniors pre-season training has kicked off with a very encouraging attendance at the first session held at Castle Park on Saturday. Group fitness and training sessions will run every Saturday at 11.00am, with additional take home exercises and skills sessions scheduled between now and the start of the season. See here for details: (CEECC pre-season outline.docx)

We are lucky enough to have the input of Alasdair Jones from Colchester Physiotherapy, who has put together a specific exercise program for the club and will be on hand to lead and instruct these activities. The first set of exercises are accompanied by an injury checklist to be filled in - this is to help target specific areas for strengthening and rehabilitation during the program: (Exercises + Injury checklist.pdf)

All players are welcome and we look forward to seeing you down at the park in the coming weeks.

Academy - Skill Sets Week!

After Week 2 was cancelled due to the snow, the academy resumed for Week 3 of the schedule which was ‘skill sets week’.

The players were grouped into their relative skill, spin bowling, seam / fast bowling and wicket keeping; and worked on specific drills and skill that provided them with a better understanding of their technique.

The academy players were fortunate to have the services of Dave Lucy, a wicket keeping specialist who worked with the keepers on drills that can improve their all round technique, the group saw great improvement and we would once again like to thank Dave for a great session.

Terry Charrington, an Essex Academy Elite Coach worked with our spinners this week. He specifically worked on alignment and wrist positions to enhance turn and bounce. The spinners found this interesting and the coaching point that Terry imparted will be worked on for the remainder of the academy and beyond.

The fast bowling skill set was run by Gareth Fisher Academy Head Coach. He worked with two separate groups of seamers / fast bowlers on specific technical drills that they themselves can take away from the session and work on to improve speed and accuracy.

The academy hopes that the ideas / expertise and drills the skills sets offered the players this week will be worked on throughout their time and the academy and when practicing elsewhere.

A few pictures can be found on the club photo gallery.

Awards Evening Pictures

A few pictures from the AGM / Awards evening on Friday 22nd January have been added to the club photo gallery, click on Photo to view them.

Youth Fixtures 2010

The Youth fixtures for 2010 have just been released. Click here to view them.

200 Club Winners - January 2010

The winners of this months 200 Club draw were: P. Vidovic,T. Rothery, D. Slater and M. Bashall.

Further details of the 200 Club, including application form can be found on the 200 Club page.

Academy Report

The Colchester & East Essex CC Academy held its inaugural trials on November 14th 2009.

We received around 60 candidate applications across all three age bands for the first intake, which was promising.

The trials where conducted by Gareth Fisher (Academy Director / Head Coach), Colin Perkins (Academy Elite Coach) and Julian Russell (C&EE 1st XI Captain for 2010 / Elite Coach).

We were impressed with the commitment of all candidates and the standard of cricket played was extremely high. However, we had to make some tough decisions and our intake for the Winter Training 2010 settled at 32. Congratulations therefore goes to the following:

Junior Academy	Intermediate Academy	Senior Academy
Ben Arulampalam	James Hingley	Kiri Samaranayake
Ronan Gallagher	Ankush Jagota	Hugo Douglas
Ben Allison	Joe Chester	Miguel Nydam
Charlie Fernandes	Tom Avery-Hickmott	Harry Theron
Simon Fernandes	Connor Gallagher	Monty Douglas
James Bealey	Ollie Bocking	Jack Gardner
Adam Mayes	Michael Wrathall	Matt Godbold
Ashvin Prabaker	Dominic Manthorpe	Kieran Dale
Sam Chapman	Francis Hunt	Nick Scott
David Austin	Nick Harrington	William Kearse
Harrison Staines
Matthew Watling

The training program will commence on 2nd January 2010 every Saturday for 12 weeks. Now the hard work begins!

We wish the very best to all.

Thanks go to Piri Piri Cricket and a number of private individuals for their support of the program.

Colts Nets CANCELED

Youth Nets have been canceled for this Sunday (10th Jan) due to forecast for further bad weather over the weekend.