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[tim2000s]

Got to agree with your last paragraph. Buzz got me to do that and it made a big difference.

[SOULMAN1012]

A few thoughts.

Obviously, the one that I am very surprised nobody has already asked is, are you getting the same LBW decision repeatedly (eg Graeme Smith's tendency of falling over his front leg to an inswinger) or are you getting a range of decisions to different bowling?

I'll assume until you say otherwise that the latter is the case.  I wonder, do you constantly check your guard?  You say that you just seem to find yourself in front and I wonder whether you might be subconsciously geting further over as time progresses.

If this is not the case, its worth thinking about where you are moving your feet to - I've seen a lot of players who seem to look to throw their front leg at the ball, rather than just to the side of it.  If you open your stance ever so slightly, you might find it easier to get the ball arriving under your nose and in the meat of the blade...

Normally against the inswinger mate. As I have said only once against a spin bowler and quite often against the change bowlers. Yea I check my guard quite often and always when a new bowler comes on. I am starting to think it is 2 things that come up a lot.

Firstly I think I have started to get to worried about being bowled so my be throwing, planting my front pad. Secondly I may need to see how straight is my head and where is it when I play my shot.

[Aswani Cricket]

I used to play on a wicket with indifferent bounce and more often than not, the ball kept very low. To counteract that, I used to try and get on my front foot, but I found that I was planting it down far too early and it got into a habit. This meant playing round my front foot, and once planted, it's difficult to then move. So several LBWs later had to make a change. I did it my taking a slight step back with my right foot, then moving the front foot forward. So it was now comign forward a split second later, giving me the opportunity to plant it relative to where the ball was, and not just in the same place every time.

[Manormanic]

Normally against the inswinger mate. As I have said only once against a spin bowler and quite often against the change bowlers. Yea I check my guard quite often and always when a new bowler comes on. I am starting to think it is 2 things that come up a lot.

Firstly I think I have started to get to worried about being bowled so my be throwing, planting my front pad. Secondly I may need to see how straight is my head and where is it when I play my shot.

It is always tricky if you are planting your front leg and the ball comes back into you, because the pad naturally falls in the way of you getting your bat to the ball.

A good (if very dull) exercise that might help.  Get a batting tee and place a ball on it on the line of off stump just short of a drive length.  Practice the foot movement required to get your lead leg just inside the line of the ball, then add the bat and start to knock the ball straight back down the line of the pitch.  Gradually progress to a friend rolling balls from wide on the crease at the stumps, again focussing on foot inside/play straight and work up through a bobble feed to eventually a bowling machine.  You'll soon groove the muscles to bring your foot down inside the line rather than in line.