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Coaching
Our high quality professional cricket coaches want you to be a better player and have the tools and experience to help you reach your goals. We will individually match you with the right coach to give you a personal coaching and training plan.
Our approach is not a 'copy & paste' style of coaching with an individual player assessment and training program, featuring state of the art LUDIMOS video analysis and player development program. East Sydney Cricket Centre is proud to be partnering with LUDIMOS to offer the latest in tech and AI analytics.
Whether you are an amateur club cricketer looking to improve your game or an elite cricketer looking to get to that next level of performance, we can help get you there.
Our HP Academy sessions are designed and facilitated by Master Coach Neil D'Costa. These sessions run for 10 weeks during each school term. The academy is only open to selected players and numbers are strictly limited. For information on trials please use the contact form.
We have designed and started a Green Shield Academy with the sole purpose of developing you as a player and person who will have what it takes to dominate the Green Shield Competition
Our Coaches
Academy Coach
Neil D'Costa
- Cricket Australia L3
D'Costa is a Level 3 Coach with Degrees in Sports Science, Sports Coaching & Psychology and has played Sydney Premier League, with previous experience as Head Coach at NSW U/19 and District Level.
Proud of his Indian heritage, D'Costa was also Head Coach for the first full-time cricket academy implemented by the BCCI in Vidarbha, India.
He brings 35 years of cricket/coaching experience to a player with the desire, dedication, determinism and discipline. Now D'Costa is developing the next generation of superstars in both the men's and women's games.
International & Australian cricketers who have worked with Neil include:
Michael Clarke, Phil Hughes and Mitchell Starc VVS Laxman, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Solomona Mire, Shaun Marsh, Nick Compton, Vusi Sibanda and currently, Marnus Labuschagne.
Manager / Senior Coach
Billy Barge
- Cricket Australia L2
- SMA Sport Trainer L1
Billy has worked as a level 2 coach since 2018. As a player, Billy has been under the tutelage of Master Coach Neil D'Costa since he was 12 years old and has since been working with Neil D'Costa as Fast Bowling Coach and batting coach at Neil's Star Academy.
Billy was a promising fast bowler however suffered 4+ season-ending stress fractures in his back. The silver lining was that these injuries gave Billy access to some of the country's best fast-bowling coaches
Consequently, Billy now utilises what he learned from these expert bowling coaches and put together a coaching methodology that is perfect for fast bowlers.
Billy underwent university training in video analysis and uses the latest technology with his batting and bowling coaching.
Billy is currently working with Sydney Boys High, Sydney Grammar School and Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club working in their pathways program.
Senior Coach
Will Chesterfield
- Cricket Australia L2
- Cert III/ IV Fittness
Will has been coaching in Sydney for the past 5 years. Originally from Tamworth, Will was a promising boxer.
Will moved to Sydney and has played cricket with Gordon & Western Suburbs cricket clubs. During that time Will has been coaching under the guidance of Neil D'Costa as both a batting and spin bowling coach.
Will has attained his L2 coaching accreditation and is currently the head coach for the Western Suburbs Green Shield squad.
Senior Coach
Mark Morley
- Cricket Australia L2
- Cert III/ IV Fittness
Mark Morley is Pathways manager and assistant coach at Eastern Suburbs Premier Grade Cricket Club, one of the largest cricket clubs in Australia.
Mark has a passion and a skill in bringing the potential out of young players. Mark has led the club through multiple successful campaigns in both Green Shield, Poverden Grey and Grade premierships both as a captain and coach.
Mark is a skilled cricketer with both bat and ball.