Bad Habits
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Topic: Bad Habits
Posted By: davey117
Subject: Bad Habits
Date Posted: 28 November 2005 at 1:03pm
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When I bat, technically I am told I am quite good. I also know all the shots. Once i get in the middle i get nervous and against quick bowlers with lengthy run ups my first movement is always towards square leg. Can any1 help? ------------- You don't need snow to go sledging;) |
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Posted By: Rebourne_
Date Posted: 29 November 2005 at 8:03am
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Do you go out with a thigh pad? Do you run away from the ball? Maybe ask your mate to throw some fast tennis balls at you and try blocking. ------------- When everythings going your way, You're in the wrong lane. |
Posted By: davey117
Date Posted: 29 November 2005 at 5:36pm
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Yes i do go out with a thigh pad. I suppose i am trying to get out of the way of the ball. Tennis ball theory doesn't work, I got somebody to do that with a normal hard, red ball. It is the run up of a bowler more than anything but also i hve took a few blows to the chest arm and thigh when it misses the thigh pad ------------- You don't need snow to go sledging;) |
Posted By: snell77
Date Posted: 29 November 2005 at 8:15pm
| well purchase as much protection as you can if it will hlp you get over it. mayb purchase a chest guard |
Posted By: Rebourne_
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 10:10am
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I'm really scared of bouncers... ------------- When everythings going your way, You're in the wrong lane. |
Posted By: snell77
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 10:27am
| Im not suprised i havent faced any as of yet but i have purchased a helmet at the weekend so i am prepared. |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 12:05am
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I just duck under bouncers. But I always wear a helmet. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: snell77
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 1:59pm
I will duck aswell or if im lucky i may be able to hook one 
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Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 8:18pm
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I try and hook them when I'm feeling confident or I'm set at the crease. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: abub
Date Posted: 04 December 2005 at 5:33pm
hooks u hav to to time if u dont u might get caught most people do it with there eyes closed like me and once got hit near the neck but luky me tape ball
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Posted By: safran
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 8:08pm
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I am an opener, kinda like to attack, now working on defending the good balls and putting away the bad ones. I've never ducked a bouncer. I do wear a helmet. I love bouncers as hooking is my strength. I've found the gap even with fielders packed on the leg side boundary. I am very weak playing the leg glance. |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 12:23am
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I am good at playing the leg glance, just naturally and I am good with bouncers as well. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: Big Josh
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 3:41pm
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Don't you aren't alone ------------- josh |
.But i just try ignore the length of his runner-up and his stature and focus on the ball he is carrying?Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 3:46pm
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Yup, there is no need to get nervous or intimidated by a bowlers lengthy run-up. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: Pakman
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 5:16pm
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Just think in your head " Who does this this joker think he is, with such a long run up, I'll give him the treatment " Build up some self confidence, and I bet, most bowlers dont even need that long run up, its pure intimidation technique. ------------- Some great cricketing quotes: "It's tough for a natural hooker to give it up." - Ian Chappell "On the outfield, hundreds of small boys are playing with their balls." - Rex Alston, BBC |
Posted By: Warne in making
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 7:14pm
| I love hooking. I hit one over the pavillion before |
Posted By: Big Josh
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 7:26pm
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I agree with you run ups are required but hey some are just too long.But in the you benefit because the bowler will get tired quickly and bowl loose deliveries which you should capitalize on if you still aren't frightened
------------- josh |
Posted By: Big Josh
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 7:28pm
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I used to love Hooking and pulling until i totally missed one and because of that i ave got a dent on my forehead which clearly shows the seam marks.But i got over that now and now back to my bad habits of pulling anything shot and because of that i get shouted at Club practise for loosing bowls on the roof ------------- josh |
Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 04 January 2006 at 6:12am
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Well i would suggest you to just stop hitting big shots to fast bowlers. Becoz most of them intend to give a bouncer after they are hit for a boundry. Or just build enough confidence to face the short balls or bouncers. Closely lood at the ball rather than qvoiding it. Keep you head straight, and think that if u let the your eyes off the ball, it woud hit you hard, so before it does so, you just hit is hard wih your bat. Wear as much protection as you can. Once you get over it, it wont be so difficult for you. ------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: krisdy
Date Posted: 04 January 2006 at 6:26am
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just increase your backlift like shewag,sachin,lara and dhoni ,,, everythign will get right ------------- "I go by present and present says - Sachin IS the BEST , Shewag is going to be the next best and Dhoni's is gonna rock the world with his brutal assaults - GOD help the rest of the world" |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 05 January 2006 at 11:29pm
Easy way to avoid short balls and bouncers is to duck under them. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: Big Josh
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 7:05pm
Just go ask the South Africans esp{Kallis,Ntini} they would know best after Lee tortured them all wiht his firing Bouncers  ------------- josh |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 7:30pm
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Yea, it must've been quite an exciting adventure playing Lee's dangerous 90 mph bouncers. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: Big Josh
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 8:00pm
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exciting as an SA supporter i ddnt enjoy that site bt actually it was kinda funny seeing the Sa batsmen duck for their lives ------------- josh |
Posted By: inzamam329
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 8:43pm
| if anyone needs advise on the tecnique of batting..theh watch Rahul Dravid bat..he is the best in today's cricket, tho he scores at a slower rate that of Sehwaq, lara ponting and izny..his technique is near perefect! |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 12 January 2006 at 9:47pm
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Well, you can't just learn by watching...you also need to practice...'practice makes perfect'...or my variation of it, 'practice makes near perfect'. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: Big Josh
Date Posted: 12 January 2006 at 10:15pm
You got to do it all watch then imply what you see ------------- josh |
Posted By: capital_s
Date Posted: 13 January 2006 at 12:59am
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My idea is perfect practice makes perfect. If u get someone to coach
you, you will improve dramatically. To get used to the fast bowlers,
get someone to use a bowling machine against you. This way, you will
get used to the speed without the fear of getting hurt, because bowling
machine ballls are soft. Once you have practiced heaps and you hand-eye
co-ordination is good, there is no need to be afraid of fast bowlers.
------------- My two favourite Batsmen: Jacques Kallis is a very solid but destructive batsmen and not to mention he can bowl as well. I also like Michael Clarke for his amazing batting talent at such a young age |
Posted By: Black_cap_95
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 9:42am
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just beleave in yourself that you are good enough to hit the ball when it is short pitched |
Posted By: Canadian Rocket
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 9:52am
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Well I'm an opener, and I like to attack, normally I defend the good balls but I make sure that I put away the bad ones.
I've also never ducked under a bouncer and I always do wear a helmet but not against the spinners. I love to hook and I can do great leg glances as well!!! Just keep PRACTICING and you'll be PERFECT! ------------- Pakistan Rocks and Own the Cricket Stadium!!! World Cup 2007 here we COME..... |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 1:39pm
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Yea, practice, practice, and practice.
I have practiced so much and I have completely transformed myself from a garbage cricketer to a decent cricketer. |
Posted By: Warne in making
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 2:01pm
| Yeah, i play shadow cricket to plactice when your inside in winter. Its where you go through the strokes |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 15 January 2006 at 2:07pm
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I just go in my balcony and practice my catching even though it is cold. I'm not allowed to practice cricket in my living room.
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Posted By: DiscoDuck
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 3:02am
Try taking a leg stump guard and make your first movement towards the off-stump. A small shuffle of the feet to middle/ middle and off while the bowler is in delivery stride is all it takes. This will set yor movements in the right direction and will virtually eliminate your tendancy to back away. Make it a habit and watch the improvements. Your confidence is the real issue here though. You need to work on that or you will never succeed against the quicks. They can smell fear and lack of confidence a mile away. You just need that one good knock. |
Posted By: robdawg
Date Posted: 21 January 2006 at 3:37pm
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well a bad habbit is to move your head around whike playing your shots as this can take you off balance and not gte as muhc power in your shots. i also recemend to ppl with a really good eye to let the ball come to and not try hit it too hard, this is were a good bat comes in play as youll find the middle more often than not with a well balanced blade with a long sweetspot like bradburies
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Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 10:48am
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I think habits are very very difficult to get rid of, especiallly bad habits. one of the bad habits is trying to hit everything on the onside, no matter what is the line, length and height of the ball. Typical onside batsmen never like to play delicate off side shots. ------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 10:51am
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Getting eye off the ball, when it is a short pitched delivery coming right on to you, is another example. So many batsmen get out trying to avoid the ball having there eyes off the ball. Many of them also get hurt
------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: The CCC
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 11:26am
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Well,what about dancing down the pitch and hitting it before it pitches?Nah,only jokin
the best way to cope with short pitched bowling is to hold your bat at a slite angle.Or,just duck underneth it! ------------- CCC-Carcassonne Cricket Club Support us, then play us!!!Second hand equipment etc highly welcomed!!! |
Posted By: The CCC
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 11:54am
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PS: try moving your back foot towrds middle stump.that little jurk will help you get in the rocking movement to pull/hook the ball. ------------- CCC-Carcassonne Cricket Club Support us, then play us!!!Second hand equipment etc highly welcomed!!! |
Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 25 January 2006 at 8:04am
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Shrikaant of India was once get hurt by a short pitched delivery from Wasim Akram, that ultimately led him towards his retirement from International cricket. How would u like to negotiate such short balls. ------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 2:27am
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Just duck under 'em...
unless the pace of a Great Pakistani Pacer beats you... ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: EatLead!!!
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 3:29am
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Most likely that will never happen so there's nothin to worry bout ------------- Go The Aussie team (resting sucks) |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 3:38am
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What do you mean, it will never happen?
Anyone pacer might bowl a bouncer at you so you've got to know what to do. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: shan
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 8:10am
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May be nobody get hurt that bad in future, coz they have very good protections available these days and also Wasim is retired. ------------- "Excellence is something we can reach for; perfection is God's business." |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 7:59pm
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True!
But we still got Shoaib to give bouncers. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |