i have always found that cricket is a sport where training isnt well organised, attended or taken very seriosuly unless you are at premier league level or above. I see under 12 footy teams with better turn outs and better structured training than most cricket clubs.
I am well up for technical batting training and am more than will to discuss the finer points of batting and pass on my experiences of when i played at international level for a coupel of years .... all be it for a poor international side! Seems like no one is interested though. When they come to me and ask why htey cant get runs and why i get so many runs (1600 runs in 16 40 over innings for my club where i am coach) I ask them when was the last time they actually thought abotu what they were doing and maybe try to improve.
I have one lad who 2 years ago couldnt bat, last year he didnt care this year he suddenly started bombarding me with question after question, eveyr night he wanted to go to nets. unfortunately I cant make it that often these days due to family commitments. Anyway to cut a long story short of about 10 net sessions workign on thecnique he went three games where i put him in as opener in a midweek team and he got 35* 49* 30* .....
here comes the sad bit, all of a sudden the emails stopped, the text messages stopped and he wasnt interested in nets and he was strutting around like he was a pro. his last 6 games he hasnt got more than 2 runs in each innings. he told me he is thinking of retiring at 17 years old!!
I ahve told him that in the off season we will work from January to April in the nets and if he doesnt get a 50 next season i'll give him £50 and give him £100 if he gets 100.
Its all about focussed training, learning the basics and aiming to improve. its hard when all you get is 15 minutes in a net once a week if you are lucky.
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Topic: What does your training consist of? (Read 2399 times)