Skill Acquisition in Cricket | Alex Lascu
Channel: Stuart McErlain-Naylor
Date: 02/12/2021

Lecture 4 of the #ScienceOfCricket series. Alex Lascu discusses how skill acquisition theories can be applied to cricket coaching. This includes ecological dynamics, nonlinear development, task design basics, and environmental constraints. Alex includes practical skill acquisition examples throughout.

View the rest of the Science of Cricket lecture series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI7VLEjUJidBb-_JAxGPOKpuei5WsXkcZ 
Cricket Coaching: An Ecological Approach (Rob Gray): https://youtu.be/vy_IjluNIeg 

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00:00 Science of Cricket: Expert Lectures
00:16 Skill Acquisition in Cricket
00:57 Ecological Dynamics in Cricket
03:29 Nonlinear Development in Cricket Coaching
08:09 Task Design Basics in Cricket Coaching
13:40 Environmental Constraints in Cricket Coaching

Alex's Twitter: https://twitter.com/skillacqlascu 
Alex's paper - “Train how you play”: Using representative learning design to train amateur cricketers - https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2021.2001160 
Woods et al., 2020 - Sport Practitioners as Sport Ecology Designers: How Ecological Dynamics Has Progressively Changed Perceptions of Skill “Acquisition” in the Sporting Habitat - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00654 

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