I have been delivering an after-school club this term. As happened last year, we have been evicted from the newly built sports hall to accommodate exams. Unlike last time, we have been able to carry on with the weekly club, but in the much smaller and very crowded old sports hall. So small and crowded, …
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What can we learn from “…a fast slow-left-arm unorthodox orthodox bowler…”?
A fascinating look at Axar Patel’s startling bowling successes, from Jarrod Kimber’s presentation based on data analysis by Himanish Ganjoo. I do enjoy this type of analysis, partly for the insight into exactly what is going on in the professional game (“we’d hit him all over the park if he bowled like that at us”…), …
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What do expert batters look for before the ball is released? And how “incongruent information” might be the key to deceiving them.
Another fascinating webinar in Stuart McErlain-Naylor’s Science of Cricket series on YouTube — Oliver Runswick on anticipation and perceptual motor skill in cricket. For me, two things stood out from Oliver’s presentation: as a coach, what skills of the expert batters can we help novices to learn? as a bowler (who could hardly buy a …
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