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[play-yourself-in]

Just stand up taller and straighter, have some throw downs but place something on your back foot so it is not allowed to move.  Really try hard to stand up tall and straight though.

Good luck.

[Jlscarroll17]

You can widen your stance, allow yourself to be more balanced just little things make a massive difference

[Buzz]

This is a common fault, especially for taller players, even Ali Cook struggles with it.
Without seeing you play it is a bit hard to help, my guess is you may be a bit closed at release and your head is getting to far to the off side or is falling over and your eyes aren't level. Alternative you may be planting your front foot a little and be trying to play around it.

There are a couple of ways of fixing it, but without a video of your batting it is difficult to provide an easy answer.

I would try to have a marginally open stance and try to ensure your eyes stay level by lining them up with the peake of your lid/cap/sunhat.
Weight wise I would have your weight about 60% on your front foot and work on leading with your eyes to the ball. You will need some practice to get your head moving to the ball rather than to the off side of it.

[Nmcgee]

I've had problems in this regard too.

Open your stance slightly and just practice moving your head to the ball over and over.

[felix]

@Buzz (and anybody else), I dug up this clip from a net with some other cbf luminaries last winter (copyright @rickjames  ). I'm the one in the dayglo yellow top batting from 4:20.

http://youtu.be/0PMuEtUy5UI

The trouble with is that I don't think it illustrates my current problems very well, I felt in half decent form then. I can see a tendency here to topple a bit, but as I said I'm even struggling to hit my off drives too now, and if I could nail them like the ones as 4:30 - 4:40 I'd be quite happy. Since this was taken, I'm now making a more conscious effort to stand upright in my stance, but it's not working. I used to have a bit of a back-and-across trigger movement which I thought set me up better but after reading the furore on that topic here, I've taken to trying to stand still.

[330Mark]

nothing wrong with a trigger movement imo...anything to get your feet moving has to be a good thing? try just a small movement back (not across) in the delivery stride, 6 inches will be enough to get your weight transferred so you can plant your front foot in the correct line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvrXWOJJfI

[felix]

nothing wrong with a trigger movement imo...anything to get your feet moving has to be a good thing? try just a small movement back (not across) in the delivery stride, 6 inches will be enough to get your weight transferred so you can plant your front foot in the correct line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvrXWOJJfI

Oh no, this will open up a whole new can of worms here, the subject of almost as much feverish debate as where M&H make their batSS I'm saying nothing, I just want to improve a bit...

[330Mark]

there is no right or wrong way to bat, whatever works for you.
if a trigger movement is the wrong way to bat then Tendulkar could've been a half decent player, if he had kept still?

[felix]

there is no right or wrong way to bat, whatever works for you.
if a trigger movement is the wrong way to bat then Tendulkar could've been a half decent player, if he had kept still?

Well, whether it's right or wrong, I do wonder whether doing away with it has contributed to my problems, I think it probably put used to put me in the kind of position (opened up, feet a bit more spread) that I experimented with the other day and seemed to work for me.

[330Mark]

there are quite a few players that use trigger movements...they cant all be wrong.
as long as your head is still at release

[Buzz]

there is no right or wrong way to bat, whatever works for you.
if a trigger movement is the wrong way to bat then Tendulkar could've been a half decent player, if he had kept still?

Tendulkar and trigger movements is a whole thread by itself.
He used different ones for different bowlers or for different conditions and sometimes he just stood still.

He isn't like the rest of us who benefit from standing still as we don't practice all that much

For Felix he could use a forward press for example as a way of lining himself up. But all things depend of what practice you can do.