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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: brokenbat on July 30, 2018, 06:54:35 PM
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Figured the best way to improve fielding is to LOVE it (that leads to "wanting the ball to come to you", anticipating better, etc etc). So who here loves to be in the field, and why do you love it? And who wants to help me fall in love with it?
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Issue is some captain don't appreciate how a really good fielder is worth to a team now if you can bat a bit and bowl also .. that's a gem ..but again it's under appreciated unless you excel in batting and bowling ....
Something to discuss I guess
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Issue is some captain don't appreciate how a really good fielder is worth to a team now if you can bat a bit and bowl also .. that's a gem ..but again it's under appreciated unless you excel in batting and bowling ....
Something to discuss I guess
Agreed.. thats why i want to improve, and I think the fastest way to improve (we all know what we "should" do in terms of technique) is to fall in love with fielding.. so i'm all ears guys ;)
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Love fielding! I keep and that’s probably why I love it so much because I’m in the game all the time. But, fielding anywhere is great. I’m the one that keeps the noise up all the time so I just love being involved.
Also I sing to myself a lot whilst riding the boundary 😂😂
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Figured the best way to improve fielding is to LOVE it (that leads to "wanting the ball to come to you", anticipating better, etc etc). So who here loves to be in the field, and why do you love it? And who wants to help me fall in love with it?
We have found in our team that it's really good to get players specialised in their own fielding position. So not just the slips and gully etc... but people now own point, covers, mid off etc... there are different skills for each position and they practice those. When we go out to field everyone just goes straight to their positions. It makes the guys want to field and take pride in their position.
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I agree with the above. I’ve always fielded in the covers/point and know how the ball will come to me and what shots to be aware of . Also, it make it easier to judge how to throw it in to the keeper /shy at the stumps.
I’m not as quick or lithe as I used to be but I like to think I still do a decent job in a Position usually earmarked for the younger and fitter players.
I do generally enjoy it but get a bit of back pain after about 30 overs.
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I do enjoy fielding, especially on a smooth outfield. We've had a few rough ones with the hot weather recently, so May/June is best. I prefer to field at Mid-on / Mid-off, and the captain is happy for me to do so, both ends is fine. Keeps me in the game enough, and I prefer to see the ball off the bat, in front of me. I'm too old and slow for the glory positions and to be honest my catching seems to be a bit off at the moment. Mid-off is a decent enough place to field I think. Gully though, that's the worst I reckon. You could get nothing all day, you could get a full blooded square cut smashed at you 1st ball. No thanks.
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I love fielding but I guess we’ve all been there when I team is smashing the ball to all parts and you just want out of the field
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i bloody love fielding, i like to play games with the other fielders, have races between overs, keep up the encouragement between overs and always try to smile and have a goal for each time i field.
I also try to practice fielding when i can, we all go to nets and smash balls or bowl endless overs, but in reality how often do we spend 30 minutes catching, long barrier, throwing...all these things make a big difference to our confidence level and ultimately our enjoyment.
Long live the specialist fielder....Trevor Penny and Jonty Rhodes!!!!
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I tend to field midwicket or cover - active, but not point or gully style active. Really enjoy it, catchings okay and don't mind a dive but find it's the ones that are sort of mistimed that get you running and look halfway between diveable and pickupable that get me looking foolish.
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i hate fielding. dropped two absolute dollies today.
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Always loved fielding. As a kid living in the middle of nowhere I used to practice catching by throwing a tennis ball against a semi-circle rocky wall we had for hours on end. The ball would fly off in all directions. I think this was what made me a good fielder. Now I have a rebound catcher at home that my boys and me use. Usually field at point, gully or in the covers, but I like mid-wicket as you often get more catches there. I love putting pressure on the batsmen who try take quick singles, they usually soon realise they'll need to try another fielder. It's bits like this that help to make fielding fun and competitive.
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I hate it.
On a hot day, it saps me of energy and I can't bat properly if we field first since I open. I also hate running after shots. If I must field, I'd rather stand at a spot where no shots are played. I also want to find a way to keep my energy level up after fielding. I take catches, I stop run, but do I love doing it? Hell no! I need all my energy for my batting.
How do you guys keep your energy level up after fielding first especially if you are an opener?
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Ive seen first hand how much the members of this forum love fielding. Particularly in specialist positions.
I love fielding. I enjoy throwing myself about and want the ball to come my way every delivery.
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Love fielding. I’ve still got my pace and enjoy diving around like an idiot. It’s probably the main reason I get selected for our 1st team! As Beaver said, it’s great putting the pressure on batsmen trying to take a quick single, steam in and see them back down. Always boosts my confidence when the captain shifts the field around to position me on the batsman’s favourite shot. Cheaper ruining whites than bats and softs too!
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Love it! Always backwards point for me!
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i wouldn't say i enjoy fielding...but i need to be in the thick of it...ive established myself as a cover/point fielder...
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Figured the best way to improve fielding is to LOVE it (that leads to "wanting the ball to come to you", anticipating better, etc etc). So who here loves to be in the field, and why do you love it? And who wants to help me fall in love with it?
When I started coaching I was, frankly, an awful fielder. I'd drop sitters and snag the odd blinder, but id often cost my team runs in the field. I realised I ought to practice what I was preaching, and put in the hard work and made myself enjoy it. Im now top of the catching charts at a much better club, including 5/6 catches that were completely reaction based, and was credited with saving Frogs about 30 runs boundary riding.
If you want to start enjoying fielding and being confident with the ball coming to you, take those extra ten catches etc.
I absolutely love fielding now, but wouldn't put myself into the cordon as that is where im at my weakest. Covers, point or mid wicket are my usual grazing spots within the ring, or sweeping the boundary. I have felt like a specialist fielder at times this season tbh.
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I don't mind fielding, it largely depends on the atmosphere and the state of the game. Defending a score in a T20 game is generally the most enjoyable period in the field, especially if everyone else is well up for it and full of energy.
In terms of positions, I've fielded in most places. I spent several years in the slips but frankly I find it boring as you rarely see the ball. I prefer to field in front of square. Cover/extra cover/midwicket/mid off/mid on are all pretty similar.
But my ultimate preference is fielding out on the boundary, as I've got a decent arm and am pretty good under the high catches. The only downside is that it can be hard to skipper from there.
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I would love to but sadly I suck big time at fielding..I am the specialist square leg fielder where I enjoy chatting with the leg umpire. I then get sent to third man, fine leg. I am also a specialist fielding at the 45 for the spinner. :D
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I try to hide at third man
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I love fielding. My when I was 14 and first played for our Under 18 side, the captain was a decent bat who played some second XI stuff for Derbyshire and he got across the message that as a batsman you can be out first ball so your only way to influence the game is through your fielding. Clearly some people are naturally more athletic than others but I am a big believer that your mindset is as important as your natural ability. If you don't want to be out there, then you will let the side down and these are the people that damage the morale of the team when you are in the team. As a captain, mentality in the field is something I take into account when considering selection.
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Depends on the standard and the reason of the tea, fielding can be everything from a massive chore to great fun.
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hate fielding
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Detest fielding. I would be quite happy just to stroll around for 45 overs and the ball to come absolutely nowhere near me :)
This could be down to the fact that I am comfortably one of the worst fielders to have ever embarrassed the game of cricket.
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I have a strange relationship with fielding. Whilst my ground fielding is remarkably average, i'm a lot more mobile than i look, so i get 3/4 run outs a year as batsman try to pinch a single in the infield to the fat lad and often realise it's a mistake halfway down. I haven't got a massive arm though, so i very rarely find myself on the boundary thankfully.
Nine times out of ten, i'll be stationed at Gully as i've made it my specialist position having never dropped a catch in there. My catching is by far my best skill in the game (far better than my batting or bowling), i can count on one hand the amount of catches i've dropped. I put this down to the fact that when i was younger and fitter, me and a friend used to spend hour upon hour in the summer throwing ourselves around the garden catching tennis balls, even though neither of us played cricket! I also used to lob a ball against a wall when i was home alone as well!
Despite this, once i come out of gully as the ball stops swinging and we go more defensive, i find fielding mind-numbingly boring. The only reason i've started keeping is to try and stay concentrated in the field, as my mind wanders when i'm not bowling!
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Love it.
I'm not a frontline bowler and i'm a lower order batsman so it's a great way for me to be involved in the game. I much prefer to field out in the deep positions behind the stumps and have made something of a specialism out of fine leg - i've saved countless boundaries in the position, ditto 3rd man.
I'm one of the younger and agiler members of the team so I enjoy haring around the outfield and diving about. Oddly though i've got the most catches at square leg which is a funny one as I never quite know where to stand.
To fall in love with it i'd say practice the basics and get used to stopping the damned thing when it's racing towards you, especially on uneven outfields where it can bobble around. If you're involved in the game you'll be a lot less bored and more engaged than if you wander around at deep midwicket for 40 overs.
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I open batting.
I effing hate fielding especially when we field first. It is exhausting.
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I love it most of the time. Had one great season playing Saturday and Sunday afternoon friendlies where I willed the ball into my hands for 31 catches in I think is was 18 or 20 games.
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I open batting.
I effing hate fielding especially when we field first. It is exhausting.
Our second team captain loves to field first so once we've completed the innings he can have some grub and then sit on his (No Swearing Please) whilst we bat - he's a number 8 so he usually gets a good long rest.
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Our second team captain loves to field first so once we've completed the innings he can have some grub and then sit on his (No Swearing Please) whilst we bat - he's a number 8 so he usually gets a good long rest.
This is why these no-gooders (I have a looooong list of choice words but lets stick with that one for now :D ) don't mind fielding first: they bat lower-middle to tail-end and are happy with all the rest. Top order goes first and have to endure the hell.
I am sitting out rest of the season because of this "field first" strategy. I am so effing done this year!
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This is why these no-gooders (I have a looooong list of choice words but lets stick with that one for now :D ) don't mind fielding first: they bat lower-middle to tail-end and are happy with all the rest. Top order goes first and have to endure the hell.
I am sitting out rest of the season because of this "field first" strategy. I am so effing done this year!
I don't mind it as like I say I love fielding but yeah it's not much fun for the openers I imagine.
Luckily (sort of) for us, he has a propensity to lose tosses that defies all probability so often the decision is taken out of our hands.
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Speaking as an opener, not a bother at all to field first. Why would it be?
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As a captain I find it can be difficult to keep some of the top order engaged in fielding whether you bat or bowl first. Bowl first, and they are too busy thinking about batting to worry about backing the bowlers up, field second and they have already had their bat and can't wait for the game to finish. The nightmare scenario is when you end up with a batting line stuffed full of guys playing for themselves.
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^ I actually field better when fielding second because I don't have to conserve my energy for batting/running-between-wickets.
Also, you shouldn't expect benevolance/chartiable sense of duty from the top order towards the team all the time. We are people too with finite energy and physical ability.
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I guess I come to it as a former opening bowler who now plays as a batsman. Bowling fast is infinitely harder work than batting ever can be so the least those guys can expect is for the rest of the team to give it their all in the field. No batsman would be impressed having to bat with a bowler who refused to run at all between the wickets on the grounds that they needed to conserve their energy for bowling.
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I guess I come to it as a former opening bowler who now plays as a batsman. Bowling fast is infinitely harder work than batting ever can be so the least those guys can expect is for the rest of the team to give it their all in the field. No batsman would be impressed having to bat with a bowler who refused to run at all between the wickets on the grounds that they needed to conserve their energy for bowling.
This. If you think fielding is hard work you've never played as a seamer on a hot day and flat deck!
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^ Thankgod for that which is why teams include fast bowlers! Its their job.
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I guess I come to it as a former opening bowler who now plays as a batsman. Bowling fast is infinitely harder work than batting ever can be so the least those guys can expect is for the rest of the team to give it their all in the field. No batsman would be impressed having to bat with a bowler who refused to run at all between the wickets on the grounds that they needed to conserve their energy for bowling.
The maximum quota for a fast bowler in our league is 8 overs in a 40 over/side one-day game. As an opener, I have carried the bat a few times and have had many blistering innings lasting more than 8 overs, hits and running between the wickets. Either it evens out or batters do a lot of donkey work than bowlers (8 overs max - 48 deliveries of varying pace).
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Love fielding, prob illustrated by the fact I get put in at long off to long off most weeks when our spinners and military medium bowlers are on as that’s where vast majority of catches come.
I’d like to think I’ve got a safe pair of hands but am widely known to only use my left one most of the time ✋ as old age is creeping up on me at the ripe of age of 36 in sept I don’t throw myself around in the covers as much anymore and a ruptured rotator cuff wiped out my ability to ping it in from 70m at least a decade ago but it’s fun none the less.