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Batting is hard work on the mind. It requires a few seconds of very intense concentration followed by almost total relaxation between balls.
Not many people are born with that skill, but you can learn it.
Mainly this is developed by batting in games and practice matches under pressure. There are a couple of drills you can add to your practice sessions to supplement this.
- Drill 1: Bat in the nets against medium pace with a ball that is half red, half white. As the ball is delivered you call whether the white half is on your off or leg side. You can do this with a red ball and call inswing or outswing to make it more difficult.
- Drill 2: Stand 5m from a partner who has different coloured balls. Your partner underarms a ball to you which you catch with your head over the ball (in a similar position to the forward defensive). Before you catch it you must call out the colour of the ball. To make it more difficult use a normal cricket ball and spin it calling off break or leg break.
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Knowing what to do and how to do it is different than being fit enough to do it. Drills nutrition and excercise go a long way to help
sorry I did not mean to appear Anonymous in my posting above. Excercising the right way helps everything. Drills give proper technique if you are fit enough to do it well.
while practising in the nets if we call out whether it is in swing or outswing dont you think that we wont be able to match up with the bowlers pace & wont be able to move our feet?
Good point writam. When doing this drill the focus is on picking the type of ball rather than playing the shot. Therefore you don't need to be perfect in your technique.
Once you have completed the drill then go back to playing normally.
good drills for bat
worst drills should be more meaningful this is not for professionals cricketers this is for begginers
Correct, this is not a site for professional cricketers. It's for club and school players. We are a broad church here. Although if you have any advance drills I would love to hear them, please email me.
thanx this drill really help me to make eye set to close the ball
need batting drills i can do with my boy (10), very good no 3 , off season drills , that we can do to build better consecration and skills thanks johan (south africa)
You need the drills you can find here
good tips
Wow..nice drills. David i planning to do the same with my kid but in a different way. I just posted it before few days in 5 immutable laws of coaching kids...it goes like...
m going to try a new thing where i will get some white softball and write a numbers on it. I will ask him to catch on 1 pitch, Before catching he has to say the no.written on the ball. I just want to make sure that he develops concentration and sees the ball when it is about to be released or just released from my hand where it pitches and adjusts his body accordingly and catches.
Do you think that it is the right way??
Any drill, sport or game that forces the player to focus intently on the ball will improve him in the long term.
Thanks David.
Hello,
my son age i 8yrs when he was 4 years i started giving practice to him.
* first i was playing a free cricket with a tennis ball
i played for couple of months,
* then i started playing with him with a rubeer practice ball.
* every day i was bowling 500 balls.
* after 4 years i saw my son can play the fastest ball 135 speed.
* lets hope if ALLAH (GOD) wants one day he will play for the country.
sir i m coach n please send me batting drills video
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