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Yeah that did cross my mind - something like lead flashing that you use on roofs.You could do mate, if you've got something like lead tape that would also work. Just trying to think of what other substitutions you could make to work with what you have!
I was posting over in the Wrist spinning bit and it all got a bit 'Batty' so I've copied it over to here.
Oh - right, maybe that's what I've been doing? With this 'Watch the ball, watch the ball' that I say to myself, it might be that I'm doing that - visualising what I do, I think I try and get the head and bat lined up with the ball when I'm playing and with my son I do something different because it's only ever in a practice scenario?
The other thing that this has made me realise is........... Is there a theory about one-eyed-ness when batting, if you use two eyes compared to one eye there's the stere-scopic aspect to the process, although I'm sure the brain sorts it out, but are there theroies relating to the use of one eye as opposed to two? Isn't it that the single eye is a disastor and that you look directly at the bowler with the head level etc?
Hi, Just in relation to playing the off-spinner...
Using your feet to get down the wicket is the best method you can use in my opinion, no matter where you bat in the order its always harder for a spinner to work you over when the batsman is being confident and using his feet.
Coming down the wicket gives you the chance of getting to him on the full, negating the spin and allowing you to drive comfortably, and if you dont quite get to the pitch you can smother it using your front pad/bat as you shouldnt be given out lbw down the track. You will find that the offie will tend to start dropping them a little shorter to account for your footwork, which will allow you to use the crease and get right back turning him for an easy single off your legs once your eye is in.
Don't discount the value of batting at 9/10/11... a lot of the times the contributions made by the tail can be matchwinning
Have a look at this - does this make sense for me? My issue seems to be that I'm pretty useless at judging length and timing, but last season I seemed to have made a massive improvement in that I had lots of not outs and saw a bloke home to his first century through 3 or 4 overs and really p*****d off some bowlers by just staying there and blocking waiting for loose balls when they obviously just wanted to finish the game off. The bloke in the vid says not to use your feet and to stay static. Is there something I could do if I got used to the line and length in that situation where I could just do something like angle the bat down with the face slightly towards slips with loose hands - might that guide the ball through slips, rather than just keep blocking?
the late cut or guide through the slips is probably the single most dangerous shot you can play against the offspinner. All it has to do is spin a little more than you're expecting and you've lost your offstump.
That video is rubbish. It doesn't even make sense. "Once you have moved the front foot you can't move the back foot anywhere but legstump" Really? how come you see Test cricketers doing that all the time then?
This is my advice, and actually mirrors how Test cricketers play:
http://www.pitchvision.com/playing-spin
What about against seam bowlers - seem to have seen a lot of them recently?
Dave, the danger with the glance/deflection is you either get into 'waft' mode and start playing away from your body without getting your head in line, or you play with an angled bat which is in effect reducing the width of your bat by a fair bit (you are old enough to remember 'the makers name' quotes). That said, if you have a limited range of strokes adding another option which you are comfortable with is no bad thing, from what you have said you are really only looking for 'rotating the strike' shots anyway so the old Graham Thorpe nudges and nurdles may be the next best option
Mirror, or "shadow" batting, is wonderful Dave. It's like videoing yourself. Find a clip of a shot played well (an Ian Bell cover drive comes to mind!) and show it on youtube, and visualise yourself playing it in your head. then try it in front of the mirror, remembering to move your feet, make sure your head is still and in line, and then analyse. Or, even better, video it, see where you can improve. That's how I've improved this season!
Yorkers take a combination of quick thinking, quick moving, and luck to dig out. You have to pick it up early, move your feet accordingly (normally to get them out of the way), and get your bat down in time. I tried to find a video of someone playing a yorker well but they're all bowled/LBW! I'm not sure what advice I can offer from here really, I shall have a think on it whilst working!
Yeah what do you do? Is there a standard approach to starting your batting? I think with him I'd gone out there with a positive intent with an intention to play the ball and he pulls out his fastest Malinga style right on the base of the stump yorker. He's very good sometimes, more difficult to play than many of the adults and much older kids I face in games and seemingly faster! I could go in prepared to face Yorkers and just block the ball, but that sounds negative?