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[TangoWhiskey]

Standing back is pretty easy. If you can't do that wicketkeeping isn't going to be your thing. Look at Dhoni, he doesn't even bother crouching when stood back.

[Cin88]

Finally had a go with the gloves on at training today, bit hit and miss thanks to inexperience (footwork and overhead catching being the main issues) but overall positive. Might have been better to start off slow though, rather than being thrown off the deep end with some fairly fast throwing from the malicious senior players during fielding drills, I swear they were deliberately aiming for my head.

[TangoWhiskey]

Give it a while and you'll be thankful for the ones at your head as they aren't half volleys.

[GarrettJ]

the idea is to aim at your head

 ........... YOu need to catch those at your head in the cup of the glove by overlapping your hands where the cups are.

I can agree with that bloke who says if you cant stand back and take 99.99% of all balls ........... then give up now.

[Simmy]

I have found since i have gone up a standard.

and i am keeping to a few quicker bowlers after the ball has passed the bat some times it likes to swing about in between passing the batsman and hitting my gloves.

keeps you on your toes that little bit more!

[Cin88]

There's only one properly quick bowler in the seconds and he opens the bowling so he'll probably the only one that i'm stood back to. I've not seen the other opening bowler bowling in a match this year though because of his knee problems so i'll probably need to adjust on the fly for him, from batting against him in the nets it looks like he's lost a fair bit of pace so standing up is probably going to end up being the preffered way of doing things.

I was taking a lot that were bouncing during slip practice yesterday, even when I moved to about 2/3 yards back from the bat, that was somewhat frustrating. How they can go from trying to take my head off (i've since been told that they were actively trying to hit me in the head as a joke) to not being able to throw a ball onto the bat cleanly enough for the coach to hit it to me on the full is beyond me. But oh well, situations in matches where it isn't carrying will happen so I suppose its not all wasted time.