Specialist fielding: Introduction
One of the hallmarks of a well-drilled team is having fielders in specialist positions. This works because fielders can work on the specific skills they need in practice and become better in those areas.
But what are the skills and tactics of each fielding position that need to be worked on?
In this series of articles we will show you.
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The 6 traits of first team cricketers
Cricket club selection meetings always bring up controversy.
In every club that puts out more than one team, there is bound to be the fringe player who splits the committee. In my club this is especially true of young players looking to break into the first XI.
I’ve sat on selection committee all this season and one of the qualifiers for whether a player is given a chance or not is if he ‘looks like a first team player’.
Why your nets are stopping you improving
When a side are doing badly it’s inevitable that extra nets are put on.
The logic is clear: If you practice you get better. Practice, as they say, makes perfect.
But if you were designing a way to practice to get better based on what we know about skill development, traditional nets are about as useful as bat with a hole in the middle.
Nets don’t work to get you better because they don’t fill the fundamentals of improving.
Why you shouldn’t ‘take the positives’ from a loss
This is a guest article from Laurie Ward
In modern cricket-speak, losing captains are quick to say “we will take the positives from this game” when they have been played off the park.
But do they really? Or is it just fluff for the media?
In reality the team and coach will look at what went wrong in the cold light of day and then work hard to put things right.
Ask the Readers: Do you play in the Spirit of Cricket
An incident in the 2010 England-Pakistan Test series got me wondering how you play your games. Do you play in the Spirit of Cricket?
Leave a comment and let me know how hard you play.
What can be learned about batting from a bat maker with 50 years experience?
What do you think of when you think of a Batmaker?It’s one of those jobs that seem to come from a bygone age. Like Candlestick Maker. Surely all bats are made by a machine in one big factory in Pakistan these days?
The bat making art is alive and well in England and is producing handmade willow for cricketers.
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Is cricket practice about repetition?
This is a guest post by Laurie Ward
Cricket is a simple game complicated by a myriad of variables: physical, technical, emotional, tactical and natural.
Every ball, wicket, match, day, situation, opposition, conditions and personal experience can vary tremendously.
So how can we prepare for something that can be so unpredictable?
Famously, Sir Don Bradman practiced for hours hitting a golf ball with a stump against an uneven wall to develop his incredible hand-eye co-ordination.
