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Re: right time to attack Improve your shot range, shot selection and placement in that order - then practice, practice, practice. Identify your shortcomings, your barriers - and then break them down! But remember, it's no use having every shot in the book if you don't know when to use them...

Re: South Africa tour England Strong day for all the English bowlers! Good to see Stuey Broad picking up a deuce. Question for the English viewers - How has Jimmy Anderson been bowling? Checking out the stats, and his consistency seems to have picked up a bit this series. Hasn't been...

Re: what age did you make the first team at ? ah, I'm a westy, out sunshine/melton/hoppers croossing way. ex girlfriend lived up your way though, that was a huge drainer on my wallet in petrol, haha.

Re: Ganguly's thoughts on fitness: bad attitude or misunderstood? http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/talk/content/multimedia/363817.html?view=transcript Geoff Boycott expressing just about the same sentiments.

Re: what age did you make the first team at ? What side of town are you on, Jonesy? What team? Ah, I made mine at 15; but that's a little flattering. Ours was a new club back then with one seniors team, so our firsts were effectively playing association fourths. 16/ 17 when I started playing...

Re: AFL of course Browny will stay with the lions, but a kid can dream. what do you reckon dids is worth come draft time though? i guess it comes down to how bad they want to get rid of him, but I wouldn't want to see the wobbles settle for anything for than a first round draft pick + 1 more...

Re: Sliding Attacking the skill confidently is, as far as I'm concerned, the most important part of sliding. Second is staying low and keeping your knees high- staying low reduces the angle that your coming down from, lowering your chances of digging your knees into the ground and/ or coming...

Re: AFL I swear the Collingwood Footy Club made a group decision to start falling apart the second I started posting in this thread. Absolutely stupid. I can't see Didak being around past the end of the season. Heath will be around though. And Rhyce - dumb, dumb, dumb. Not just drinking while...

Re: Match Fees - How much does it cost you to play? 7 pounds per ball?! That's so cheap in comparison to our charges ($15 - $20 for a Junior 148 gram two piece; $35 for a two piece in senior synthetic grades; upwards of $65 for an association approved four piece in the turf grades). I think...

Re: Will Kevin Pietersen be a success? There's no doubting that it's a ballsy decision. I absolutely detested the bloke until he came down to Australia as a part of the World XI. In one of the warm up games against Victoria, he was fielding out on the boundary and copping an absolute truck load...

Re: Horizontal shots Footwork and where you bring the bat down from. (I'm not sure how to illustrate this on the computer... but...) You should be aiming to hit "over" the ball: The bat should follow a downward path as it travels towards the ball, rather that directly horizontal, or upwards...

Re: Match Fees - How much does it cost you to play? ah, good time, it's registration time for most clubs down here... I'll list our figures and then give a reason for why seniors seem so expensive. our fees: Junior (returning): $70 (32 Pounds) Junior (new): $85 (Roughly 40 Pounds) With $5...

Re: AFL hard to split essendon circa 99-2000, lions 01 -04, and geelong now. it'd be interesting to see if those essendon and lions teams could have kept up with todays games.

Re: AFL haha I was kidding buddy. if being a collingwood fan has taught me anything (except how to break into cars...) it's that it ain't a whole lot of use living in the past. no team can play as well and as badly as collingwood in the space of 5 minutes, let alone over the course of a...

Re: AFL Can't remember Anzac day, hey Jonesy? ... How'd Geelong fair when they came up against us? oh... ah... Nah, the boys are playing some terrible footy. Tired, slow; half forwards aren't presenting, half backs aren't running. Disposal has been terrible. As soon as we play anyone lower...

Re: Ganguly's thoughts on fitness: bad attitude or misunderstood? The only prereq. to cricket fitness is the capacity to perform? Okay; maybe i'll support that. So long as 'perform' is not used specifically to describe your capacities in your one preferred skill set, but all of the relevent...

Re: Slower balls depends on what i'm trying to do with it. three variations I use at different times; gripping the ball back in the hand (no action change), cutters, and the off break

Re: Hitting across anything on leg stump line Check out this thread: http://www.simplycricket.net/showthread.php?t=2083 In all honestly, the only thing it sounds like your doing wrong is hitting the ball in the air. There's nothing wrong with sweeping a ball on or just outside leg. It's...

Re: New 'EPL' Announced Hussain is right: 18 teams is absolutely ridiclous. But hell, if three seasons of twenty20 overkill means that the appeal for that form of cricket subsides and as a result there's less of it, i'll run naked through the streets with glee. That said, i'm guessing the team...

Re: The elements that make a good bowler - Part 2 I think you're pretty spot on. Without that confidence and knowledge of who you are, and what you're capable of, it's incredibly tough to play positive cricket when things just aren't falling your way. ... Man I feel like having a bowl now.