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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: lazza32 on November 21, 2013, 02:36:04 PM
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I was wondering what other batsmen are thinking as the bowler is running up. This has to be my most dangerous moments as it gives me time to think negative
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Stay still.
Watch the ball
Don't premeditate
Watch the ball
Relax
Stay still
Watch the ball
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I'm normally thinking about what I'm going to be doing after the game or singing a song. Anything but cricket
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Depends on the situation, if there isn't much pressure on the situation - then stay still and watch the ball, I personally don't think about fielding positions too much unless it's quite obvious what their plans are - so I have quite a free mind in terms of if the ball is in the my slots, then it's going to go as I would back myself to beat the fielder.
Other to that, I do like moving around my crease a bit in the shorter format that I play to open up my scoring areas - so I thinking of trying to put the bowler off his stride by moving in a way in which I want to early enough for him to see it so it scrambles his mind slightly and fairly often it leads to a bit of a gimme ball.
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Between balls, I've usually got a song or tune stuck in my head I'm humming. As the bowler runs in, I tap the ground with my bat 3 times and just say to myself watch the ball over and over
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stay in line, watch the ball, watch the ball *bowler delivers* then (no swearing please) as i walk off :P such is the form i was in this season
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Generally nothing, I'm busy concentrating as the bowler runs in. Between balls I wander around, chat with the oppo keeper and slips etc
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"Watch the red"
Don't know why I don't pay much focus if I use the word "ball"
Need to work on my weight distribution this winter though, too much weight on front foot I reckon
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I'm generally thinking about what the tea will be like. Or indeed if batting second, how crap/good the tea was.
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Honestly if I'm batting well I'm usually thinking about nothing at all regardless how good/poor the bowler happens to be. The problem can be if I'm a bit out of form I'm always thinking about silly things like my gloves feel to tight, grip is to thin etc (all this stuff was fine when I was batting well by the way)
The other point I will make and it is a simple one is don't watch the bowler watch the ball and the hand that it's released from nothing else.
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If I start thinking about anything when the bowler is on his way, then game over, I usually get out ! I think about game situation between balls but as soon as the bowler starts his run up, that's it, mind just switches on to watching the ball.
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Don't do anything stupid and don't get out
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Don't do anything stupid and don't get out
And thats when the little devil inside me gets the upper hand. Guaranteed to come running down the track and miss or smash it straight up in the air !
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"why am walking in 7 down for 63?!"
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Watch the ball.
Watch the ball.
Watch the ball.
Watch the ball.
'Hasn't the bowler got a weird action?'
*death rattle*
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Somebody is gonna get a hurt today....
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Sounds ridiculous, but I still get really nervous when I go out to bat. So first over or so, I'm normally just wanting to settle and not thinking about anything
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i go for a pee about 10 times before i bat!!
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Don't get out
Watch the ball
Don't get out watch the ball
Along the floor
Watch the ball
Don't get out
Along the floor
Watch the ball
Watch the ball
Watch the ball
Don't get out
Along the floor
Watch the ball
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Christ I've hit that well!
Oh, they had a cow corner...
**** it, I've been caught!
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This ones going to bowl me.........head down walking back to pavilion.
This guys going to kill me............don't scream in agony and for Gods sakes don't cry.
How the hell am I going to score a run..........christ, that missed the stump by a hair.
Haven't scored for a while, have a go.............walk back to the pavilion.
and one in a blue moon I don't think..............watch the ball scream to the boundary thinking I didn't even feel that on the bat :D
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"If he pitches it up it's going"
To
"Please pitch it up, please pitch it up"
Or
"Dilscoop time"
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Food.
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Crap! Crap! Crap! Ohhhhhhh Crap!
Or
Don't do anything stupid! Please don't do anything stupid! Hold on I can hit this for six........hmmm I guess I can't!
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Early on I try to keep it simple, "watch the ball, watch the ball etc" when the bowler is at his mark but I try to switch off from anything conscious before he gets to the crease and just react. If I get "in" it I find I don't have to think anything, it just flows. If I don't feel in I stick with trying to keep it simple. Doesn't always work... :)
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One memorable game for me was:
Walked out to bat....
of f***, oh f***, oh f***, sores level with two balls left and I'm last man, WTF am I doing here, FFS take a guard, breath, breath, f*** I'm not ready for this, concentrate, take a walk to square leg, (umpire interupts my concentration at that point and says "get the f** on with it." My reply "f** off") take my guard again. Ok, here it comes, missed the bat, glanced off pads to fine leg, yes,no, yes, no oh b0!!0x.
Last ball: concentrate, walk to square leg again, think "just put it in my slot", "don't be afraid to chip it over the top. Okay, here it comes, OMG it's in the slot.
I ended up chpping it 1" over mid offs outstretched hand to win the game, someone said it went for 4, couldn't care less at the time, I was buzzing for a week :D :D :D