Pathway Programs

Supporting the Future of Tasmanian Cricket

Cricket Tasmania’s Talent program is designed to provide the State’s junior cricketers with a clear pathway from the grass roots to the elite level and to provide a world class cricket environment to achieve sustained excellence.

Pathway Struture

The Rookie Program is the start of the cricket Pathway with an aim of identifying and providing opportunities to players from the state who have potential. Players are selected for the program based on their future potential and how likely their skills are to transfer appropriately into higher levels of cricket. The target age group is players under the age of 16. 

This is the second tier of the pathway. The Development Program creates the foundations to becoming a professional cricketer. The players are supported through technical coaching to primarily develop their dominant skill. They have their first exposure to a strength and conditioning program, moving through to fundamental movement framework and developing speed and agility.

This is Cricket Tasmania’s top tier pathway program. In the ET program, players have a more holistic program, mirroring the elite teams as much as possible. As well as skill and S&C coaching, players receive access to physio, nutrition, wellbeing and psychology support. Players have opportunities to train with the Tigers and be involved in aspects of their programming and game play where appropriate (practice matches, pre-season tours, intra-state games, Tasmanian 2nd XI). This program is to ensure graduates have an easy transition into professional cricket.

Learn more about our programs:

All information about our Pathway Programs can be viewed in the PDF below.

Heads of Player Pathways

Natalie Schilov: Female Development Program

Originally from Melbourne and coming up through the Victorian cricket system, Natalie Schilov joined Cricket Tasmania in the role of Head Coach Female Pathway Programs in July 2021. She had a short playing career for Victoria, spending most of her time playing 2nd XI cricket for the state, and for Essendon Maribyrnong Park LCC in Victorian Premier Cricket, where she was a member of multiple premiership teams as a top order batter. A former primary school teacher, Schilov is passionate about creating learning environments and takes pride in seeing players transfer their development from training into game play.

Andrew Gale: Male Development Program

Gale, an English born former first-class county cricketer and coach, brings his extensive experience and knowledge to the Cricket Tasmania Pathway Program. Gale is a former England Under 19s and England Lions captain. In 2009 he became the youngest captain of the Yorkshire county side in the post-war era in 2014 he became the first Yorkshire captain to lift the LV County Championship for 13 years, and he won it again as captain the following year. Gale was the first XI coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 2016 to 2021.

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