Coaching Edge 33 2013 | Page 13

BUilding |FUNDAMENTALS| COACHING EDGE B L O C K 13 S Sport should be all about enjoyment and fun. Getting the basic skills right not only helps achieve this, but gives us a chance of finding those elite performers too, as Crispin Andrews explains. How Australian batsmen, brought up on too much Twenty20 (20-overs cricket), can’t play long Test match innings. How English footballers can’t pass, receive and find space as well as their continental or South American counterparts. Sounds like the Confederation of British Industry’s annual summer complaint about school leavers’ readiness for the workplace. But perhaps, in some ways, the