Batting Tips.

placebo · Oct 28, 2012

BluesMan said:
Cannot play a leg glance, back or front foot, to save me self. So many easy runs to be had by just turning it round the corner, or infront of square, but i cant cash in. Especially being a left hand bat, the bowler generally give you one an over on middle and leg, so its vital that i should be able to play it.

Keep your head still. Don't over hit the ball, the best thing about a glance is that it's easy to use the pace and angle of the delivery. Don't feel the need to play too early or push too hard at it, all you need to do is use your wrists as the ball is hitting the bat. Concentrate and practice, practice, practice. Get a guy at the nets to come halfway down the pitch and chuck balls at your legs.

Out of curiosity, what is going wrong. Are you simply missing the ball, mistiming it or getting out?

BluesMan · Oct 28, 2012

placebo said:
Keep your head still. Don't over hit the ball, the best thing about a glance is that it's easy to use the pace and angle of the delivery. Don't feel the need to play too early or push too hard at it, all you need to do is use your wrists as the ball is hitting the bat. Concentrate and practice, practice, practice. Get a guy at the nets to come halfway down the pitch and chuck balls at your legs.

Out of curiosity, what is going wrong. Are you simply missing the ball, mistiming it or getting out?

Cheers for the advice. :thumbsu:

Im just missing it. I feel im either to early or late. It just slams into my pads (leg or thigh pad).

Simple Jack · Oct 28, 2012

BluesMan said:
Cheers for the advice.
Im just missing it. I feel im either to early or late. It just slams into my pads (leg or thigh pad).

Make sure you're not closing the face, very common problem.

placebo · Oct 28, 2012

BluesMan said:
Cheers for the advice.
Im just missing it. I feel im either to early or late. It just slams into my pads (leg or thigh pad).

Honestly, man, as cliche as it sounds, that really is a practice issue. You gotta get down to the nets/use a bowling machine/a ball on a string and just get used to your timing, your eye on the ball, etc whilst focusing on those other basic technical issues.

I agree with what Simple Jack said as well, too many people close the face either too much or too sharply. Use the pace and angle of the ball and just angle the bat slightly on contact. It's definitely a valuable shot to have as well, easy runs most of the time. But yeah, like I said, practice will do you good!

DrVanNostrand · Oct 29, 2012

Thankfully, due to a horrible deficiancy in my technique, I play lots of accidental glances off the legs down to fine leg. The face of my bat is always angled towards mid-on no matter how much I try to correct it.

Kyptastic · Oct 29, 2012

Anyone got tips for getting the feet moving early in the innings. I find myself getting trapped on the crease and not getting forward or back.

Torz · Oct 29, 2012

Kyptastic said:
Anyone got tips for getting the feet moving early in the innings. I find myself getting trapped on the crease and not getting forward or back.

I guess you could try a trigger movement.

Zach Package · Oct 29, 2012

Torz said:
I guess you could try a trigger movement.

trigger movement takes a while to ingrain in your batting, but after a while you do it without thinking. It works pretty well for me as well.

Zach Package · Oct 29, 2012

such a slow start to the year. 3 innings, 14 runs.
I'm on struggle street just picking up the ball at the moment for some reason, just massively late on everything. Not happy Jan.

Torz · Oct 29, 2012

I'm not much better off. 2 innings for 16 runs, keep getting myself out.

Kyptastic · Oct 29, 2012

2 Innings, 2 runs.

At least I can bowl (on turf at least).

Zach Package · Oct 29, 2012

Hahah i've already managed to grab 7 wickets (2 runs for every one I take

), unfortunately I've always tended to struggle picking up length and therefore struggle to play my shots, especially off the back foot.
Any ideas?

western royboy · Oct 30, 2012

Jack Package said:
Hahah i've already managed to grab 7 wickets (2 runs for every one I take ), unfortunately I've always tended to struggle picking up length and therefore struggle to play my shots, especially off the back foot.
Any ideas?

I rate myself as a technical batting coach and I can give you a squillion tips - but here's the main one.

WATCH THE BALL - from the bowlers hand as he runs in until it hits your bat. That will solve a large portion of problems.

DrVanNostrand · Oct 30, 2012

western royboy said:
I rate myself as a technical batting coach and I can give you a squillion tips - but here's the main one.

WATCH THE BALL - from the bowlers hand as he runs in until it hits your bat. That will solve a large portion of problems.

Ok, I'll try this. I am a serial non-ball watcher. I generally get a sense of where the ball is and play farrrrr too early. No idea where my eyes are actually fixed as I'm playing my shot. Making a one-off comeback this weekend so I'll give it a try. Couldn't be any worse, played for 10 years with a top score of 34(93) lololol. Thankfully I'm actually okay with the ball and in the field.

western royboy · Oct 30, 2012

DrVanNostrand said:
Ok, I'll try this. I am a serial non-ball watcher. I generally get a sense of where the ball is and play farrrrr too early. No idea where my eyes are actually fixed as I'm playing my shot. Making a one-off comeback this weekend so I'll give it a try. Couldn't be any worse, played for 10 years with a top score of 34(93) lololol. Thankfully I'm actually okay with the ball and in the field.

Not trying to tell you what to do but if you watch the ball in the bowlers hand all the way then approximately 10cm after its left his hand you will have all the cues to know where the ball will pitch (ie. line and length) and that is what determines whether you go forward or back, defend or attack.

Given the reaction times and the speeds involved - not watching the ball is the biggest impediment to not being able to bat and or field.

When you get good at it you should be able to see the seem rotating.

DrVanNostrand · Oct 30, 2012

western royboy said:
Not trying to tell you what to do but if you watch the ball in the bowlers hand all the way then approximately 10cm after its left his hand you will have all the cues to know where the ball will pitch (ie. line and length) and that is what determines whether you go forward or back, defend or attack.

Given the reaction times and the speeds involved - not watching the ball is the biggest impediment to not being able to bat and or field.

When you get good at it you should be able to see the seem rotating.

Thanks mate, will defs be trying this.

I think it actually stems from training at night with orange balls in terrible lighting since I was 10. The ball is a blur at the best of times, notwithstanding my terrible hand-eye co-ordination.

Torz · Oct 30, 2012

Try walking at the bowler Hayden-style.

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