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General Cricket => Cricket Training, Fitness and Injuries => Topic started by: NT50 on October 11, 2018, 11:23:50 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCH1PFaMZAw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCH1PFaMZAw)
Thought i'd share this video here as its crazy to see how far i've come in the last year!
The first 30 seconds or so of this video (when im in a white shirt) is from this time last year
The last 30 seconds in a blue shirt is yesterday
The season before that first video i was averaging 6.22, and then this year i averaged 22.5.
I've worked hard on getting myself at the ball and not being scared of it (you can see i was terrified of the ball in the first video)
I still have a lot to work on: not letting my bottom hand take over, not dragging it from outside off to legside, trying to move my feet outside off a bit more
But overall i thought it would be interesting to show what 2 hours of batting practice a week does for a year!
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Well done mate great stuff to see that massive improvement
Where are you based
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This is why I come on the forum, fantastic improvement. Keep it up 👍
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@NT50 great progress there. what did you do through the year, what kind of plan did you follow?
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Wow! Huge improvement mate! Good lesson for all the youngsters, hard work and perseverance always pay off.
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0:56. Great shot!
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What is your bat weight?
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Good going Lancelot! Keep working hard and your two year progress report will be even more superlative. Respect.
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Good on you mate, that's an impressive improvement! Plenty of people set out to do that and not many manage it so fair play. See if you can keep the rate of improvement going and average 81.39 next year ;)
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Good on you mate, that's an impressive improvement! Plenty of people set out to do that and not many manage it so fair play. See if you can keep the rate of improvement going and average 81.39 next year ;)
haha! My realistic aims for next year will probably be to push that average up to 30 and score at least three 50's!
What is your bat weight?
This one is a 2'7 Red Inker
@NT50 great progress there. what did you do through the year, what kind of plan did you follow?
Didn't really have a plan. Me and my mate just went to Cricket Asylum every week for a couple of hours! He's a seriously good player and did a good job of giving me small tips and hints but letting me work out what was best for myself
This is why I come on the forum, fantastic improvement. Keep it up 👍
Cheers mate!
Well done mate great stuff to see that massive improvement
Where are you based
I play in the Huntingdon league when i'm back from uni for summer
But this is all in Huddersfield as that's where i'm at university
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That bloke in the blue top is so much better than the geezer in the white top! ;)
Seriously....looking at how confident you are now in comparison to how you were!! Insane!
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Outstanding, the difference between the two videos is incredible - sure a lot of hard work went into it!
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Another progress update
Once again averaged 20-odd this year, was 30-odd at the mid season point but i have been suffering from dizziness for quite a while so it effected my performances for a while!
Have been focusing on not having such a death grip on the bat - but really need to work on my balance and not falling over to the offside
That being said, here's another video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-448lnj5Cmw&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-448lnj5Cmw&feature=youtu.be)
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Looking good and would be good to know what learnings you have or things you did to make the improvements.
Also - is the thigh pad on right? Looks like the inner one is on the outer side?
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Looking good. The cut shot looks very effective. For losing balance to off, your head starts in a good straight position, but then you seem to lean to off side rather than pushing your shoulder /head down towards the ball. Maybe this is why you then pull the back foot outside off stump after the stroke. However, there are others on here much better qualified to comment...
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Very nice batting. Keep it up.
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Good work again! Re. falling over - it's all about your stance. When you're preparing to face the ball your head is already outside the line of your feet, so when you try to move to the ball your balance will only ever lead you to fall over. Get whoever's feeding the machine to surprise you by not letting one go and I bet you'd have to take a couple of steps to find your balance again. Easy to rectify by making sure your stance is more balanced, not leaning out towards off - just straighten up a little to make sure your head's in the right place.
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Good work again! Re. falling over - it's all about your stance. When you're preparing to face the ball your head is already outside the line of your feet, so when you try to move to the ball your balance will only ever lead you to fall over. Get whoever's feeding the machine to surprise you by not letting one go and I bet you'd have to take a couple of steps to find your balance again. Easy to rectify by making sure your stance is more balanced, not leaning out towards off - just straighten up a little to make sure your head's in the right place.
Towards the back end of last season I seemed to have fixed this by pressing forward on my front foot. It made me a bit slower on my back foot but the cut shot is the only one I play on my back foot anyway.
I was a walking LBW for half of last season, then after I changed it up i made a couple of scores. Seem to have regressed though as I haven’t picked a bat up since the season end because I’ve been struggling with dizziness etc!
Think if I make a real effort to get back to my forward press stance I’ll be ok!
Cheers mate, appreciate the help!
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Great work mate, that’s some serious effort to get from video 1 to the shots in video 2 in 12 months. Proves a point that sometimes instead of spending £££ on new kit that wont improve your game spend the money on coaching and the results are for anybody to see from this video.. Top effort mate and should be aiming for a TON with some of the shots you can play now compared to 12 months ago./
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Fantastic videos @NT50, the difference between them is amazing you should be very proud of yourself :)
It's sacrilege on this forum but I think it's better to have 1-2 bats less and spend the money on coaching, it'll help you score way more runs than a new bat.
Keep up the hard work, it's certainly paying off!!
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Awesome work ...I do love a left hander on the drive ...I always wanted to be a lefty
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Didn't know where else to post this - but here's some footage of my bowling. Will try to take my tripod next time to get a better angle.
Moved back to bowling offies as my seam is very mediocre and i'd never really focused properly on bowling offies so i thought i'd add a string to my bow considering we don't have any spinners currently. This will effectively be my second season bowling offies.
Last year i could turn the ball massively, but would bowl 2 boundary balls an over. So over the last couple of weeks i've bowled in the nets and seemed to have settled on an action which means i can hit the right spot more often than not. Crucially, my bad balls tend to be a bit too much width / too full rather than a horrible longhop that doesn't threaten the batter.
I still need to practice a lot more as the muscle memory isn't quite there yet, but i'm happy with how its going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRv90PKKnxQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRv90PKKnxQ)
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Looks pretty decent to me mate, getting a nice bit of turn on a few of those. There's an ECB coaching video on YouTube that has a few useful tips if you've not seen it before.
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Nice bowling mate, consistency is key and like what you have said about the annoying boundary balls (everyone does it, so dont worry). No spinner myself but keep so spend a lot of time chatting to ours. Was always told they would prefer to bowl a ball too full if it's going to be a bad one rather than short so defintiely the right way of thinking.
Keep grafting away and be up for it first time you have the ball in your hand as we start playing. Lots of others wont have been in the nets on their own with ball in hand in March but you have been :)
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Cheers fellas! I’ve scoured the web for as much off-spin content as I can find and have generally found some stuff that worked and some that doesn’t.
Looks pretty decent to me mate, getting a nice bit of turn on a few of those. There's an ECB coaching video on YouTube that has a few useful tips if you've not seen it before.
Would be interested to see this but haven’t seen it online?
Cheers lads
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@NT50 https://youtu.be/2BCva3DcByw - Just a short one mate but few useful tips. The Nathan Lyon masterclass on YouTube is pretty decent as well. Definitely some useful pointers for relative newbies!
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Good batting progress!
think off spin bowling is more about consistency, not trying too many or too often, variations.
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I don't have much cricket experience but I would like to see more of a run up than walking and delivering the ball. Secondly maybe bit of side on action than straight on bowling action.
Simply ignore me if it's crap advise.
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@NT50 https://youtu.be/2BCva3DcByw - Just a short one mate but few useful tips. The Nathan Lyon masterclass on YouTube is pretty decent as well. Definitely some useful pointers for relative newbies!
Some useful stuff in there!
I don’t bother with a run up, it seems to make a minimal difference in terms of pace/spin and just throws me off balance.
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Didn't know where else to post this - but here's some footage of my bowling. Will try to take my tripod next time to get a better angle.
Moved back to bowling offies as my seam is very mediocre and i'd never really focused properly on bowling offies so i thought i'd add a string to my bow considering we don't have any spinners currently. This will effectively be my second season bowling offies.
Last year i could turn the ball massively, but would bowl 2 boundary balls an over. So over the last couple of weeks i've bowled in the nets and seemed to have settled on an action which means i can hit the right spot more often than not. Crucially, my bad balls tend to be a bit too much width / too full rather than a horrible longhop that doesn't threaten the batter.
I still need to practice a lot more as the muscle memory isn't quite there yet, but i'm happy with how its going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRv90PKKnxQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRv90PKKnxQ)
Looks very good! Your run up is fine imo - you gather momentum at just the right time. Bowling the odd bad ball is not the end of the world. No shame in having some protection on the boundary - at the club level, a lot of batters will try and over hit bad balls, and the boundary riders can easily be in play.
Kudos for putting In the hard yards... and keep it up!
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Been a while since i posted a batting video! Had my best ever season last year with around 750 runs so hoping to go a few better in 2022!
Still a little too bottom handed on some shots but it's certainly getting better
Footwork a little bit slow due to only just coming back from tearing my deltoid ligament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2mIsT7KgY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2mIsT7KgY)