My son is 16 and a young fast bowler and struggles to keep his emotions in check when catches are dropped off his bowling. In a couple of games last season he took one wicket but had 2 or 3 catches dropped in the slips and he gets so down.
I know it’s part of the game but what advice can you offer?

Hi Dale,
You’re right it is very much part of the game but please keep encouraging your son to keep working hard on his bowling.
As he progresses through the senior grades, he will he should be playing with better fielders and catchers.
There is no reason why he can’t have a quite word to the coach in regards how much fielding his current team is doing at training. There is always an opportunity to do more, and it also needs to include all forms of catching, especially slips catching.
He could also become a leader by getting involved and participating with slip catching practice, Show his team mates the way, and he in turn will become a better catcher himself and inspire his team mates to do more.
Terry Alderman, Ian Botham, Andrew Flintoff and Tim Southee and others are very good examples of fast bowlers who were good slip fieldsman.
Keep reminding him players don’t mean to drop catches, but it is important they are working hard at practice to not let him and the other bowlers down.
Best of luck