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[GoodLeave]

Our standard warm up is watching the oppo warm up. Over-rated.

[uknsaunders]

Made me chuckle when I saw you warming up with the fall of the wicket before me! You deserved more than the weather allowed, we were at least 30 runs short.
Glad I could be your only scalp, I'd much rather face the lad that got 5 with pace on the ball than your darts.

Yeah,  I think you hit 5 of the 13 runs he conceded in just one over! I think the wicket was a little damp to start with and got wetter,  which played into my hands with my type of bowling.

Did anybody get the catcher?

[chrisbd]

Can't believe teams don't warm up. We have a set routine. All the sports pysch work that's been done on it - warm up is essential.

Arrive at ground 1.5 hours before start. Group warm up for first 30 minutes - static and dynamic stretching. Then a teamtalk, identify oppositions strengths, weaknesses, key players, bowlers talk plans to specific batsman etc. Comprehensive fielding drills too.

Then next 30 minutes pre toss is about individual routines. Batters get a hit, slippers catch a few, bowlers tend to bowl between 20-30 balls.

Then the toss. Next 30 is about specific drills relating to toss. I.e openers do some work if batting first, or seam bowlers get fully loose if bowling first. Last 10 minutes is final preparation and words before we go out there.

Find it shocking people don't warm up!

CBD

[ProCricketer1982]

Yeah,  I think you hit 5 of the 13 runs he conceded in just one over! I think the wicket was a little damp to start with and got wetter,  which played into my hands with my type of bowling.

Did anybody get the catcher?

I guessed at hilly, redders or Maverick

[Bats_Entertainment]

Can't believe teams don't warm up. We have a set routine. All the sports pysch work that's been done on it - warm up is essential.

Arrive at ground 1.5 hours before start. Group warm up for first 30 minutes - static and dynamic stretching. Then a teamtalk, identify oppositions strengths, weaknesses, key players, bowlers talk plans to specific batsman etc. Comprehensive fielding drills too.

Then next 30 minutes pre toss is about individual routines. Batters get a hit, slippers catch a few, bowlers tend to bowl between 20-30 balls.

Then the toss. Next 30 is about specific drills relating to toss. I.e openers do some work if batting first, or seam bowlers get fully loose if bowling first. Last 10 minutes is final preparation and words before we go out there.

Find it shocking people don't warm up!

CBD

That might be taking it a bit seriously at the level at which I play?

[chrisbd]

I think you can take it as seriously as you want. If you want to be a better cricketer (which I assume everyone does), then doing everything in your power to allow you to do that is surely a good idea? Whether it's a warm up, or extra nets in the week, or collecting new bats (I know which of those three the forum will like best as an idea!)

[InternalTraining]

We never warm up. Interestingly as an adult I have never stretched before physical exercise and I have never pulled a muscle. As a teenager we did and I sometimes pulled muscles. Young kids in the park do loads of running about, they never stretch and they never pull a muscle.
Additionally, the warm up is a bit pointless if you bat first.
We were in the semis of our T20 competition, it was due to start at 11.00am. The opposition got there at 9.30 they did a load of warm ups and fielding drills. We turned up at 10.45. Ok we lost but only by 4 runs and they were 2 divisions higher than us.
Warm ups, a pointless waste of energy.

When I stretch cold, it hurts and doesn't do me any good. When I stretch after a little jog or some warm up (even after hitting some balls), I move better. Stretching should be done when your body is warmed up and you have sweated a little. Stretching a cold body does nothing for me.

[InternalTraining]

Can't believe teams don't warm up. We have a set routine. All the sports pysch work that's been done on it - warm up is essential.

Arrive at ground 1.5 hours before start. Group warm up for first 30 minutes - static and dynamic stretching. Then a teamtalk, identify oppositions strengths, weaknesses, key players, bowlers talk plans to specific batsman etc. Comprehensive fielding drills too.

Then next 30 minutes pre toss is about individual routines. Batters get a hit, slippers catch a few, bowlers tend to bowl between 20-30 balls.

Then the toss. Next 30 is about specific drills relating to toss. I.e openers do some work if batting first, or seam bowlers get fully loose if bowling first. Last 10 minutes is final preparation and words before we go out there.

Find it shocking people don't warm up!

CBD

We'd be lucky if entire playing-11 shows up 30 minutes before toss. We are such a disorganized mess. It is up to certain (responsible) team individuals who are scrambling to manage the team - scoring, dues, food, etc.

[chrisbd]

I think I'm lucky in the sense that we have scorers, teas, umpires, groundsman - everything provided for, so all we have to worry about is playing. So it's something I understand isn't always possible.

[Woodyspin]

Can't believe teams don't warm up. We have a set routine. All the sports pysch work that's been done on it - warm up is essential.

Arrive at ground 1.5 hours before start. Group warm up for first 30 minutes - static and dynamic stretching. Then a teamtalk, identify oppositions strengths, weaknesses, key players, bowlers talk plans to specific batsman etc. Comprehensive fielding drills too.

Then next 30 minutes pre toss is about individual routines. Batters get a hit, slippers catch a few, bowlers tend to bowl between 20-30 balls.

Then the toss. Next 30 is about specific drills relating to toss. I.e openers do some work if batting first, or seam bowlers get fully loose if bowling first. Last 10 minutes is final preparation and words before we go out there.

Find it shocking people don't warm up!

CBD

For someone that doesn't follow you success, where is you play? and what time do games start? 1.5 seems very reasonable if you are warming up specifically and have nothing to set up for. We meet 1:15 hours early, however the first 15 is setting up our ground (sight screens, boundary markers ect) then 20/30 minutes warm up then the toss and change.

[chrisbd]

I play at Hampstead, ECB Middlesex prem.

Games start as early as 11 when we play 120 over days. We are lucky that the two main groundsmen have all that stuff set up, so we can just focus on cricket!

[Maverick79]

I guessed at hilly, redders or Maverick

It was me. Bit of payback as Kenny caught me first game of last season when we played his old club!

[Woodyspin]

Lucky you! Although 120 overs? nah you're alright. 93 is enough. BUT! 11am start? where do i sign up!?

[19reading87]

Great to read all this.

I am indeed captain of this lot, it's good to see them still continuing the high levels I set even when away!

[Bats_Entertainment]

I think you can take it as seriously as you want. If you want to be a better cricketer (which I assume everyone does), then doing everything in your power to allow you to do that is surely a good idea? Whether it's a warm up, or extra nets in the week, or collecting new bats (I know which of those three the forum will like best as an idea!)

If you are old and know you have limited talent, the kind of warm up you suggest would be a lot of hard work for limited gain. That said, I do go to nets for 3 hours or more,  2 or 3 times a week, and run to keep fit. That is far more preperation than most do at the level at which I play.