Coaching Needed

Do you have a practice session regularly?

There's nothing technical you can be taught about something like this, it's just something you pick up from experience. It's about shot selection, learning to not play stupid shots and give wickets away early - there's plenty of time for that later on! Thing is, even by the standards of amateur cricket 40 overs is really quite short so it's important not to over-compensate and end up without enough runs but its vital you bat all the overs or you've wasted a portion of your time. Look to keep AT LEAST 8 wickets in hand by the halfway stage, preferably 9 or all of them, btu remember you still do have to play your shots in this period so you don't end up behind a reasonable runrate. After that you want hitters coming out and opening the shoulders a bit, but even so they need to play themselves in unless its the last 3 or 4 overs. Losing your wicket trying to slog one, even a bad ball, in the first over, is a complete waste of all the runs you could have contributed

EDIT I don't know what standard or what sort of pitches you're playing on, what tends to be a decent score in your league and what are you lot normally getting?


Edited by Chin Music - 22 November 2006 at 1:33pm

Basically all you have to do is survive the first 8-10 overs against the decent bowlers then open up gradually till 20-25 overs then really get into it. You usually find that once the two opening bowlers are gone, the rest of the bowlers make up the numbers.

 True, true!