To indoor nets last Sunday – my first time as a player for two or three years, and hopefully a preliminary to playing a few games in the summer. Remembering the tenets of “purposeful practice”, and everything I say to our Colts when I am coaching, I set myself a couple of very specific goals …
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Coaching “intent”
Over the course of the winter indoor season, our Colts’ teams have twice been turned over by an opposition side fielding two or more spinners. Not unlike England against Pakistan, in fact. There was no suggestion that they were undone by “mystery” spinners, nor even by bowling that was exceptionally good. They simply did not know how to deal with …
Pakistan 3 – England 0 (Tests); Pakistan 0 – England 4 (ODI): spot the difference?
Pakistan out-played England in the recent Test series, in the United Arab Emirates. The 3-0 “spinwash” marked the slump that the more pessimistic of England’s followers almost wished on the team. “England can’t play on sub-continental pitches” (the soil for the Dubai strips was shipped in from Pakistan). “England’s batsmen can’t play spin” And all this, apparently, without …
The Teesra 