Alan Smith & Tim van Noort are ECB qualified coaches and have been coaching in Sussex for the past 25 years. Their combined experience spans across a broad range of environments including clubs, schools, and representative cricket with a strong focus on coaching and nurturing boys and girls of all ages. Having worked together for many years they decided to officially pool their resources, passion and experience and launched MavriX Sporting Co. in 2020.
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Alan has an extensive range of expertise having worked across multiple sports. He played league cricket in Kent and Surrey and shared some memorable matches alongside and against some legendary players. He is also an FA Qualified Football coach and has a large amount of experience as a games teacher at both state and private schools. His work with the ECB Disability Programme has also covered a broad range of participants and includes experience at schools such as Stoke Mandeville. His proudest achievements are his work with the Sussex County Girls which included winning a number of Championship and T20 titles. Many of the girls that he worked with have gone on to represent the Sussex Senior as well as England Team.
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​Tim began his coaching career after moving to Sussex in 1999 and joined Hastings & St Leonard's Priory CC where he also played for the 1st XI in the Sussex Premier League. He coached and managed the Sussex County Boys Squads for a number of years as well as coaching at a number of clubs, state schools and Bede's School where he was Assistant Director of Cricket. After completing his ECB Level 3 coaching qualification in 2008 he started Skillz Cricket Academy in 2010 and built a cricket centre in East Sussex to deliver bespoke coaching sessions. He has delivered over 20 000 hours of One2One coaching to boys and girls using innovative practice in a fun and challenging environment. As a player he also represented South Africa at Indoor Cricket playing in 3 World Cups, and his fondest memories include winning the Sussex Premier League, representing the MCC at Lord’s and playing for the Duke of Norfolk XI at the stunning Arundel Castle. Tim also represented the Sussex 2nd XI and Board XI which played in the ECB Minor Counties Competition. His proudest moment was winning the Div 4 Sussex League title in 2017 for West Chiltington & Thakeham CC in memory of his friend Tim Monday who sadly passed away during a match that season. WC&TCC has been his home club since 2016 and is proud to have played and coached at one of the healthiest clubs in Sussex. Having recently "matured", Tim has rekindled many old friendships and rivalries by representing the Sussex o50 team with the highlight so far being a match against the touring Australians in 2024.
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