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School Coaching Services

Cricket Centre of Excellence offers various levels of cricket coaching with schools

Starting with our Smasher System for P1 to P6 and onto individual performance and team coaching for secondary schools.

Primary 1-6

The smasher system is the perfect introduction for young students to cricket and also for students that need to be introduced into fitness and ball sports in a professional, controlled fashion yet with educated fun as the objective.

Smasher System Program

  • Introduction to fitness and ball sports co-ordination
  • Introduction to cricket skills
  • Natural talent identification
  • Game play of smasher playground cricket
  • Inter School diamond cricket tournaments
  • Inter School League

Cricket Centre of Excellence offer demonstration and talent trials to schools with large numbers of students.

Our Cricket coaching services are available during School hours or after hours as an extra curricular activity, all of our coaches are qualified at HKCA level and experienced at dealing with large groups of juniors.


Secondary Schools

Our Coaching services to secondary schools is? a tailor made coaching service that provides talent assessment through using various skill trials and drills in order to provide a coaching plan for the school year that allows the students to benefit from individual performance coaching relative to the student key cricket skill and then onto providing team training and coaching. For those schools that are not involved in regular match play we provide a match and league placement service.

Secondary School Program

  • Group talent trials
  • Individual skill assessment
  • Team training
  • Individual Skill improvement
  • Team coaching
  • Schoolyard cricket
  • Inter school matches

For more information on our school coaching serviceˇ¦s or to organize an appointment with one of coaching staff for a quotation and demonstration
Call 2330 7287 0r email us at schools@omniconevents.com


Clubs

Cricket Centre of Excellence offers everything there is when is comes to your clubs cricket requirements. For residents clubs, social clubs and corporate clubs we offer the complete range of training , match day and tournament options.

Club Services include

  • Private Training
  • Team coaching
  • Bowling machine rental
  • Practice match venue hire
  • Private tournament venue rental
  • Organized tournament

When it comes to the complete tournament package our parent company Omnicon events can provide various tournament packages for every occasion.

From birthday parties to corporate tournaments we can assist with everything from umpires, scorers, catering , entertainment.

 
 
 
Cricket Centre of Excellence - 2009 Camps
We have updated the 2010 individual centre details have been updated for April to June schedules. Kindly refer the schedules, we will look forward to see you all back with us in the new year.
Flower urges for calm
Like the world's financial system that has been overloaded with toxic debt, England's dismal demise for 51 at Sabina Park was a crash waiting to happen. After a month of internal ructions so bad that a new captain and coach had to be appointed, amid weeks of wrangling over IPL deals, the problems finally presented themselves in the shape of England's third lowest total in Test cricket. Now it is down to the new combination at the top, Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower, to try and build the team back up in time for the second Test. They don't have long - it starts in Antigua on Friday. "It is all our jobs to do something about it and if we don't we will be out of jobs," Flower said bluntly at the team hotel. Plenty of ECB officials were milling around the lobby and pool. None of them looked happy. England's collapse has come at a doubly bad time given all the off-field issues that have been floating around. It is impossible to escape the fact that they played a part and Flower admitted it could have been the drip-drip effect of all the distractions. "There might be an element of truth in that, but sportsmen have to deal with the challenges they are given," he said. "We have three Tests left to do something about it. It's going to be difficult, but we have the players to do it. "Playing for England is a proud moment, they are not only playing for their team or themselves, but also their country and the people that came out here to watch them," he added. "People are not proud of what happened. Before this trip started Strauss preached the virtues of personal responsibility that he wanted each player to follow, but he couldn't have foreseen such a dire situation. Flower, though, treads the same path as the captain and said the players have to examine for themselves what happened. "I don't think we handled pressure very well. It was a great spell of bowling [from Jerome Taylor] on a wearing pitch. They exploited that very well and probably better than we did at any time. The bottom line is [that the] players have to take responsibility for not handling the pressure. "It's a very individual thing, how you handle pressure. They have all responded under pressure before but yesterday none of them did. I could go through a list of when they have done it at different times." Flower has to defend his charges, but in the next few days some difficult decisions will have to be made. A team can't collapse for 51 and there not be repercussions, although in 1994 the same England side that was bowled out for 46 in Trinidad played the next game in Barbados and won. That, however, was in a day when England teams changed as frequently as people change underwear and the fact these current players seem so safe will make the clamour for new blood stronger. The man whose neck is most on the line is Ian Bell, with two limp innings of 28 and 2 at Kingston, and if Owais Shah isn't given his chance, he may as well pack his bags and head home (or to the IPL). "I think there's a time where we need to reflect on what has happened," Flower said. "There has to be a period of learning for the players and the coaching staff. Today is not the time for me to discuss selection, it's best to stay calm and reflect. This is not a time for knee jerk reactions." There is a sense that the England set-up has plenty of lieutenants but no clear leader. Flower still operates under his title of assistant coach and Hugh Morris is on tour as an overarching figure head. "The buck stops with me, but there's also collective responsibility," Flower said. "However on the playing front I take responsibility. I don't think we are rudderless, in fact I know we aren't. Strauss and I work together, but whereas he is captain I'm running the management team and taking that off his shoulders." And he remained adamant that he and Strauss have a united team behind them. "I can honestly say that this group of 25 people, or whatever we've got, work together very well," he said. "If you get 25 people in an office there will be the odd ruction and the same goes for sport, but as far as disunity is concerned it's simply not true." The public line is that this team will stick together and pull in the same direction. However, the same was said in India before it all blew up in Kevin Pietersen's face and now the warning signs are flashing again. England came from 1-0 down to beat New Zealand last winter, but that pales in comparison with the challenge that now confronts them.
Swann seizes his opportunity
Graeme Swann bowled with skill, stamina and admirable patience on a baking hot day in Antigua to claim his maiden five-wicket haul in only his third Test, as England were made to battle hard for the ascendancy in the third Test at the ARG. Despite bowling West Indies out for 285 in reply to their first-innings total of 566 for 9, England opted not to enforce the follow-on with 40 minutes of the day remaining and rightly so, for it was a weary outfit that trooped from the field. With Steve Harmison on and off the field through illness and Andrew Flintoff labouring with a hip injury, their performance was dogged rather than inspired, and while the bowlers rested up for the second innings, England's batsmen extended the advantage by a further 31 runs, for the loss of the captain, Andrew Strauss, for 14. Despite outbowling his senior team-mate, Monty Panesar, during England's pre-Christmas tour of India, Swann was a surprise selection for this contest, especially seeing as Panesar hadn't even had a chance to confirm his lack of form during the ten-ball Test at North Sound earlier in the week. But by the end of West Indies' first innings, the selectors' hunch had paid rich dividends. From an exploratory first over of the morning in which he ripped a beauty past Devon Smith's edge, to the flighty floater that trapped Sulieman Benn lbw to him his fifth wicket, Swann kept England's bid for victory firmly on course in a performance that made a mockery of Panesar's recent one-dimensional efforts. Very little had been expected of Swann when Andrew Strauss tossed him the ball at the start of play, ostensibly to allow Harmison to change ends and attack the now-infamous football ridge at the Factory Road End of the ground. But before long he had become England's most reliable attacking weapon. He claimed their first wicket of the day with the first ball after the morning drinks break, when Devon Smith ruined the memory of an otherwise diligent 38 by slogging gormlessly across the line, and Swann added his second with 15 minutes to go until lunch, when the nightwatchman, Daren Powell, was finally prised from the crease for an excellent 22 from 86 balls, well caught at slip after being deceived by extra bounce. Bounce, or lack of, was meant to be England's key weapon during the day's play. Their seamers had spent the pre-match warm-up bowling at a marker on that awkward spot where a football halfway line runs across the middle of the wicket, but in the event the tactic proved counter-productive to their accuracy. Far too many deliveries went harmlessly past the bat (and, on two embarrassing occasions, straight through the legs of the wicketkeeper, Prior), as England became obsessed with the killer shooter, and forgot the basic rules of line and length. That suited Ramnaresh Sarwan just fine, as he produced the counterattacking innings of the day - an aggressive 94 from 133 balls, replete with crashing cuts and sweet clips off the toes as he took full toll of England's wayward lines. He added 70 in a stylish fourth-wicket stand with Ryan Hinds, and at 200 for 3 midway through the second session, England were beginning to look resigned to a long and fruitless day in the field. Harmison by this stage was really struggling - he was seen retching at the top of his run-up before leaving the field for treatment, and when Sarwan briefly belted Swann from the attack as well with three fours and six in nine deliveries, Strauss was forced to turn to Pietersen's part-time offies, to no avail. The turning point of the day, however, came in a crucial nine-ball spell just after the drinks break, when Andrew Flintoff and Stuart Broad finally tempted a pair of indiscretions outside off stump. First to go was Hinds, who dangled his bat at a ball angled across his bows, and Prior behind the stumps gathered impressively low to his left. Then, before he could settle, the main man Shivnarine Chanderpaul was gone as well. Stuart Broad, arguably the best of England's seamers on the day, persuaded him to flash outside off, Prior again took the catch, and the most obdurate character in the West Indies dressing room had been and gone without making a significant mark. It was a jubilant moment for England, although the session could have gone even better for them had Broad in his followthrough clung onto a fierce return drive when Sarwan had made 63. Instead Sarwan pushed on after the break as well, and with Brendan Nash providing some typically frill-free support, the pair added 50 runs in 14 overs before a terrible rush of blood gave England the chance to go for the kill. On 94, and with a 13th Test century a single blow away, Sarwan went for the glory shot against Swann and picked out Flintoff at short mid-on. One ball later, and Swann was on a hat-trick as Denesh Ramdin tapped a loopy full-toss straight back into his hands, and at 251 for 7, the follow-on was beginning to loom. Nash ensured that would never be an option by hanging around for 81 balls for his 18, an innings that finally ended when Flintoff returned for one last spell, and with his second delivery drew a loose flat-footed prod to Collingwood at second slip. Swann then claimed a richly deserved five-for, only the second by a spinner in the ARG's Test history, as Benn virtually gave himself out for the plumbest of lbws. Flintoff, visibly unfit, then ended an entertaining cameo from Jerome Taylor by running back to claim a skied return chance. Flintoff's shattered demeanour meant there was no question of England heading back out to go through the whole ordeal again. Instead, their openers set about extending the advantage, although Strauss - after his 169 in the first innings - could not find the same fluency as Edwards rattled him with extra pace and drew an edgy drive to second slip. Edwards' day could have finished on a high had Hinds clung onto a last-over chance when the nightwatchman Anderson flashed outside off, but the chance went down and England sensed an opportunity to tighten the screw.
Final 14 named for ICC WCL Division 3 tournament i
The Hong Kong Selectors have named their final 14-man squad for the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 Tournament to be played in Buenos Aries, Argentina in January 2009. The squad is: Tabarak Dar (Captain) Manoj Cheruparambil (Vice Captain) Najeeb Amar Irfan Ahmed Nadeem Ahmed Moner Ahmed Hussain Butt Ilyas Gull Roy Lamsam Courtney Kruger Jamie Atkinson Zain Abbas Skhawat Ali Nizakat Khan Coach - Aftab Habib Manager - Ravi Nagdev Physio - Michael Waters