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[mini998]

Any one used wrist weights while netting? I can see a similar effect as using a heavy bat in nets.

[WalkingWicket37]

Can't see why it won't work.
Don't keep them on when bowling though, you suddenly only bowl the short ball!

[BigBlueMachine]

Check out this video researching the use of heavy bats. It's baseball but easily transferable to cricket.

http://youtu.be/0_vR8U_KrhY

[Sam]

I can never take those videos seriously since the cricket v baseball difficulty one  . The results were clearly true because they had American 'international star' (insert name here) representing cricket... 

I personally used a slightly heavier bat last season and this season in the few nets I've had when using a slightly lighter bat again can really feel the difference. Hard to tell if it's improving my bat sped at the moment however.

[Blazer]

There are opposing forces when you add a wrist weight, your timing is likely to be off by a mile. Why not hold pose with the bat longer and get the base and core stronger ?. The feeling of lightness after warm up using a heavier bat isn't conclusive to improve your power whereas a good base, a strong core, stable eye level, still head and clear mind would help. The major proponent of using a heavy bat ( Dhoni ) was capable of hitting long even before he used a heavy bat warm up routine and is probably the equivalent of the obsessive crease marking done by Trott or having a red rag in your pocket like Waugh , a routine/ ritual.
 
PS:- I did try wrist weight on my wrist and on a bat , neither worked/ was short lived to affect performance.

[BigBlueMachine]

I can never take those videos seriously since the cricket v baseball difficulty one  . The results were clearly true because they had American 'international star' (insert name here) representing cricket... 

Haha, totally agree with this. The worst I remember was 'who hits harder, NFL or Rugby' then compared an NFL pro athlete vs a club amateur Rugby player!