Case Study: Can You Use Control Statistics to Improve Club Cricket Performance?
This season, I have been conducting an experiment with a new way to measure cricket performance: "Batting Control". I have spent a whole club cricket season tracking and reviewing.
So, is control worth adding to your club and school reviews or is it one piece of data too many? Read on to find out.
How to Outthink a Batsman's Strength and Turn it to a Weakness
I watched a fascinating period of play in the 3rd England vs Pakistan Test Match from Headingley. James Vince was being forensically investigated by the excellent Panistani left arm seamers.
How to Be a Better Opening Batsman
Ask most people about opening the batting and they will tell you about batsmen who can block. Occasionally you get a big hitter. But, what really makes a good opening batsman?
Set the Tone: How to Win the First Ten Overs in One Day Cricket (and Why it Matters)
There is something magic about the first ten overs.
Use Geometry to Deal with the Silver Fox Conundrum
I received a cry for help on Facebook the other night from a dear friend of mine who plays village cricket in the heart of Somerset.
12 Ways to Have a Better Net: Fit, Focused and More Runs
As you know by now, nets are one area where you can improve how you train. How do you do it?
Use Your Honours Board to Score More Runs in Less Time
Rotating the strike is the most unglamorous and under-appreciated skill in batting. You know you need to improve it but you never work on it. How do you solve the problem?
Improve Your Batting Against Spin by Changing Length
This is a guest article from Fish Hoek Cricket Club Head Coach, Jamie Rood
I run spin sessions by throwing off spinners to a 5/4 leg side biased field. We have a slip catching and two fielders out at square leg and deep midwicket. Everyone else is in the ring.
In one particular session, I was working with Kegan, an U16 batsman who enjoys working the ball into the leg side and picking it up over mid-wicket. Here's what we did.
The Golfing Mentality in Cricket
I have a very good friend who has a background in professional golf, having played on the European Tour and Challenge Tour. Oddly, it got me thinking about cricket.
You Can Bat With Hard Hands (If You Do It Right)
You go hard at the perfect away swinging delivery and edge it to second slip.
You get forward to the spinner and push his length ball into the off side, calling quickly you take off for a single, making it easily.
Both of these moments are examples of playing with “hard hands”: Playing a defensive shot but pushing into the ball.
