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[Twelfth Man]

I'd like to get more out of training sessions and nets to help improve my cricket, both club sessions and when only a few of us go over. What kind of drills etc can help, rather than the typical net.

What would you guys class as a productive training/net session and how does your club go about it?

[no1red]

I think any net with a purpose is effective. For example taking a game situation such as batting/bowling at the death or setting 'fields' for the batters during the session. Just trying to make it as close to a game as possible.

[mdl_1979]

We have a policy whereby if you bowl down the leg side that is 10 press ups/sit ups/star jumps, and for batters, if you are out, you have to do a full lap of the pitch in your batting gear.  Tends to keep the mind focused.

[no1red]

Like that, sounds pretty good. We also do out if you're out nets, pads come off if you nick off, even first ball!

[MJB3]

I've found our best out door net sessions come when we operate in 3 groups, even if we only get 12-18 out at practice usually. One net for a bowling machine, one net for bowlers and one group fielding. 3 batsmen, one against the machine, one feeding and one facing bowlers. Batsmen usually get 2/3 lots of 18 balls then they rotate. Everyone else is split into 2 groups, of 5-8, half go to bowl and half go to fielding drills with the keeper. They rotate every 15/20 mins.

[Twelfth Man]

I think that is we're trying to do. I think the problem is that if you have too many bowlers then there's a lot of time just waiting around! When it comes to doing your own thing, is it better to just get throw downs and practice all round shots or do something different?

[Twelfth Man]

I think one idea somebody had was have game situations on an actual wicket so its more match like with fielders etc for something different which we haven't done before. Does anybody have training sessions out on pitches, or does everybody practice on the usual artificial?

[potzy248]

I think one idea somebody had was have game situations on an actual wicket so its more match like with fielders etc for something different which we haven't done before. Does anybody have training sessions out on pitches, or does everybody practice on the usual artificial?

We have a lot of open wicket trainings sessions. We Put nets up around the pitch so we don't need a keeper. or block off one side so the fielders are on the other side. Works well, although some guys in the field never see the ball. Another problem is that batsman have no pressure on them so they tee off and try to hit the biggest six. If you can put some pressure into it its great.

[Tomm92]

For batting, the first 20 minutes we usually practice with tennis balls to keep batters alert and to learn control. And sometimes we use a swing ball to learn to play the ball late, if you go early and try to drive a swinging ball, then you'll most likely nick it or miss it.

After that, we go into about 1hour 30mins of hard ball to replicate game situations. In one net we have cones placed in the nets which would simulate the gaps inbetween a fielding setups.

And in another, we have shots dedicated to improving your weaker shots. For me, I usually struggle with the cut shot.

[123bcfc]

In the nets for batting we have the different types of lengths marked on the mat and the different shots you should play on that length. then we have one person doing throw downs the rest judging wether they have played the right shot and they keep going until people think they have played the wrong shot and then just take it in turns and make it a little comp

It is good fun and makes you think about the shots you are playing maybe give it a go for ten minutes