Training is on Monday evenings, from 22nd April 2024 from 6pm-8pm, for 15 weeks. Training venue will alternate between New Road and Shrewsbury House School Sports ground. All training is included within the Club Membership and is delivered by our professional coaches.
All players have opportunity to play plenty of matches on well kept grass wickets. Match play is normally on a Sunday with additional midweek games. The main ethos of the age group is plenty of cricket and development of all.
The Under 11 age group sees all players playing proper ‘out your out’ cricket, away from the pairs cricket they experienced in the younger age groups. All players train and play with a hard ball.
All players have opportunity to play plenty of matches on well kept grass wickets. All matches will be hard ball and played mainly on Sundays but also some midweek evenings. We’ve also entered into cup competitions and will again look to host our own very popular Esher tournaments
Match playing Kit: All players will be required to have their own protective kit (Bat, Helmet, Pads, Gloves, Box) For matchplay we play in the Esher Navy Blue Playing Shirt and Navy trousers. Kit is available to purchase from the club kit shop and is supplied by Masuri. For the shirt, numbers are allowed on the back, but no names please. https://eshercc.co.uk/kit/
Training and Matchplay Focus – U11 Player Pathway
| Batting | – Understanding and identifying the main hitting areas when playing Spin |
| – Using your feet to make spin bowling easier | |
| – Developing further the various sweep shots | |
| – How to play fast bowling | |
| – How to play swing bowling by play the ball late | |
| – How to pace your innings – Chasing or Setting a Target | |
| Bowling | – Reinforcing the skills learned from previous years |
| – Having a good understanding when to attack and to defend when bowling | |
| – To be able to recognise where a batsman is trying to score from the bowling | |
| – To understand the Term Attaching Dots | |
| – To start to look at batsmen’s techniques and identify the weak areas of their game | |
| Fielding | – Anticipating where the ball will go, from looking at the shape of the batsman’s shot |
| – Being comfortable when taking high catches | |
| – Introducing diving and slides to save runs | |
| – One handed pick ups when going for a run out |
Representative Cricket: The following players have also been successfully selected for Surrey Performance Squads for this season: Aariz Awan, Alex Hawkins, Arthavit Anoop, Benjamin McClintock, Dylan Narinesingh, Ethan Saunders, Freddie Carswell, George Bain, Jack Hooke, Jake McGlashan, Landon De Goede, Max Ashton, Samuel Callaghan, Sarvesh Ganesan, Daniel Sealy
Age Group Managers: Adam Pace
If you are interested in joining us and would like extra information, please contact Adam on the email above.
Please see below for our 2023 Season Report (U10s).
If you enjoy watching ridiculously tense cricket matches that are decided by the final ball of the match, then you would have loved following Esher Boys Under 10s teams in 2023.
Of our fifty-nine matches, three finished in ties. It doesn’t end there. We won one game off the last ball of the match, lost one game off the last ball of the match, and lost one match by one wicket. And that’s just the REALLY close ones!
Despite our penchant for tight finishes and generally making life difficult for ourselves we found that we were heading into the business end of the 2023 season with a realistic chance of winning four of the six leagues that we entered.
Our Dragons team lost a title decider against Thames Ditton to narrowly miss out on winning their mid-week Tier 2 League, but it’s a super testament to the ethos of the Esher CC boys section that we were able to give 8 boys from this team their debuts in Tier 1 matches with the boys often contributing to wins with vital runs, wickets and catches as the season progressed.
In Tier 1 cricket we managed to wrap up the U10s Central League relatively quickly winning nine and tieing one of our ten matches. Heading into the final two weeks of the season we were also unbeaten in the U10s South-West League. However, despite re-arranging fixtures, finding astro pitches to play on and generally doing everything we could to play games we had to abandon our last two matches due to bad weather. So, no losses for this team either, but we finished second in this league. A similar story unfolded in the U10s North-West League where we came up just short. We also won the only U10 Summer Tournament that wasn’t rained off.
In the end we walked away with one league trophy, 14 players on the Surrey performance Pathway, 60 boys playing a lot of cricket, 8 players making Tier 1 debuts and lots of nerve-racking finishes!