Today was the last coaching session we would have before we leave on Saturday as tomorrow is the cricket festival.
The day started with the coach education program at the Rwanda cricket ground, seeing eleven adults being coached to an introductory ICC qualification. Some were members of the RCA and others from different schools and universities around Rwanda. While Paul and Martin did the Coach Ed Brian, Jono and Ian visited some local shops in Kigali to get some equipment for our cricket festival.
This afternoon we managed to rearrange one of the schools due to the rain last week, and so we travelled to Apade School. We had planned to do some introductory soft ball cricket and then move onto their cricket team for hard ball cricket training. The first session went well doing the usual batting (front foot drive), bowling and fielding (catching) carousel with around 25 students being coached. After this 40 minute session and with Paul and Martin arriving after their lunch break we were expecting the school cricket team to arrive but this is Africa and they didn’t. This meant that it was an early finish for the team and to get some rest before tomorrow’s festival.
Tonight we are taking some of the RCA members and coaches out for dinner to the local Chinese that we found the first week we were here. This will be a good chance to chat about the last couple of weeks.
Cricket Without Boundaries