Powerplay – CSA Coach Education Newsletter 1St Issue

It gives me worthy pleasure that I am putting pen to paper for this edition of the PowerPlay newsletter. This is the first under the recent revised coach education structure!

We believe just concluded an action-packed season that saw Cricket SA host two successful world cups in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup as well as the inaugural ICC U19 Women’s World Cup. The performance of our Momentum Proteas was something to behold in this competition and I am sure you would gain been proud on how far girls and women’s Cricket has advance in South Africa.

I also wish that the 2022/2023 season has brought lots of memories for you and everyone involved in your programmes, and that you believe found some sort of fulfilment in the achievements of your individual players, teams and the growth of every the people that you were able to gain a positive impact on in this season. After every, I guess that it is this emotional reward that we every strive for in this game!

I am sure there are many of our stakeholders across the country who gain asked themselves how the CSA coach education office will function moving forward with the introduction of the centralized coach developer positions.

Our office conducted Member Roadshow meetings in November, December 2022 and in January 2023 to catch our Member Cricket Services Managers, Pathway Programme drivers and Chairpersons of schools (primary and high schools) and Member Pipeline Committee Chairperson on the current Coach Education strategy.

The rollout of the coach education programmes will be driven by our team of coach developers in conjunction with the newly formed coach education committees at each Member. The primary responsibility of the committee is to identify the coach education needs of its region and collaborate with the assigned Coach Developer to advance up with the Coach Education Annual Plan/Programme that will seek to address these needs.

The functioning of the coach education committee will be governed by the Terms of Reference that were approved by the CSA Pipeline Committee of the Board. These Terms of Reference has been shared with the Member Cricket Services Managers.

The scourge of kids and women abuse in the country is something that Cricket SA is taking seriously and therefore seeks to ensure every its participants in the game of Cricket are safeguarded from hurt and abuse. In this regard, a Safeguarding Policy was approved by the Board.

The CSA Cricket Services business unit is in the process of rolling out a project to implement this policy. The first phase of this rollout was conducted in the 2022 off-season where every Member employees working with kids and vulnerable adults were screened, trained on Safeguarding Awareness Certificate and Designated Safeguarding Officers.

Source: cricket.co.za

Vernon Philander: Vernon Philander is a former South African cricket player best known for his skills as a bowler. He has also played important knocks as a batsman, helping his team get out of difficult situations on several occasions. During his Test career, he played 64 tests and took 224 wickets.