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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Simple net game
Here is a simple game to play in the nets, to encourage batters to do more than “just have a hit”. Each batter faces a round of bowling, one ball from each bowler. First round — “have a look” — batter is challenged to leave as many deliveries as possible (1 run) or, if he …
What do elite batters do? Why not ask their coaches!
Fascinating article from Connor, Renshaw & Farrow on batting expertise from the perspective of elite coaches. Rather than an analysis of the technical and physical actions, the paper looks at the mental process of batting, following the scheme I first encountered from Greg Chappell, of shifting focus from the broad before facing each delivery, to …
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