Cricket coaching for players of all ages and abilities.
Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey.
Raj Maru played 18 years as a professional for Middlesex and Hampshire. He took 527 first-class wickets, was capped by Hampshire in 1986, and won the NatWest Trophy at Lord's in 1991.
He has coached since 1998 — eleven years across the Hampshire pathway, from under-10s to the first team, then sixteen as Director of Cricket at Lancing College. Mason Crane arrived at Lancing on Raj's first day there and went on to bowl for England at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Professional cricketers Raj is technical spin bowling coach for include Liam Dawson, Mason Crane, Danny Briggs, Alice Capsey and others.
ECB Level III · NCA Advanced · Enhanced DBS · Safeguarding and Protecting Children · First Aid
What Raj coaches
Batting. Spin bowling. Seam bowling. Fielding. Game understanding.
Best known for spin. Coaches every discipline.
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One-to-one
From £60 an hourA session built around one player. The rate can be discussed based on location and number of sessions.
How a session works -
Small groups
Price on enquiryTwo to six players working on the same thing. Popular with team-mates and with siblings.
Group sessions -
Video analysis
From £40Send footage of the action from a few angles. Raj sends back a written report with the drills to work on. Anywhere in the country.
How video analysis works -
Clubs and schools
Price on enquiryWinter nets, squad sessions and coach support. Raj ran county age-group programmes for eleven years.
Working with clubs
Bringing your child?
Government guidance tells parents to check a few things before booking a coach who works on their own. Here are the answers, before you have to ask for them.
Child safety
- Enhanced DBS check
- Safeguarding and Protecting Children
- First Aid
Coaching
- ECB Level III
- NCA Advanced Coach
No photograph of a child appears on this website without written consent from their parent or carer, given separately for that use. That is why you will not see any here yet.
Clinics and masterclasses
Raj runs occasional clinics with venues around the region — a half-day or an evening on one part of the game, in a group, at a fixed price.
No clinics are dated at the moment.
One-to-one and small-group sessions are running as normal. Get in touch and Raj will let you know when the next clinic is set.
Get in touch
Tell Raj who the coaching is for and what you would like to work on. He comes back to every enquiry himself.