mas cambios
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Making nets Purposeful
Now, I'm sure that I'll be teaching a few of you to suck eggs but this maygive someone else an 'eureka' moment as it did with me earlier.
I'm lucky enough to use the Indoor cricket school at Glamorgan to net in (no more short run ups!) and often you find a lot of left over training instructions for the squad at Glamorgan. Whilst waiting around for our turn to net, I started to read a few of the training plans that had been left on the walls, which is when the big 'lightbulb' went off in my head.
Basically, they set each net session up with a scenario - for both bowlers and batsman. For the batsman an example might be - it's a new session, you're coming in at 70-4 on a bowler friendly wicket.
Bowlers may have something like:
No 'no balls', aim to make the batsman play only on the offside.
Simple yet so effective, and in a way embarrassing as although I have always tried to make full use of nets etc, it never occurred to me to set scenarios in this way. Usually it was a case of just get some bowling practice in.
As I said, it might be something that a few others have never thought of, so I'm happy to admit that I'm an eejit. Using a 'scenario' really helped my nets tonight, it gave me something to focus on and aim for, which, I feel made the session even more productive.
Give it a go, it can't do any harm!
Now, I'm sure that I'll be teaching a few of you to suck eggs but this maygive someone else an 'eureka' moment as it did with me earlier.
I'm lucky enough to use the Indoor cricket school at Glamorgan to net in (no more short run ups!) and often you find a lot of left over training instructions for the squad at Glamorgan. Whilst waiting around for our turn to net, I started to read a few of the training plans that had been left on the walls, which is when the big 'lightbulb' went off in my head.
Basically, they set each net session up with a scenario - for both bowlers and batsman. For the batsman an example might be - it's a new session, you're coming in at 70-4 on a bowler friendly wicket.
Bowlers may have something like:
No 'no balls', aim to make the batsman play only on the offside.
Simple yet so effective, and in a way embarrassing as although I have always tried to make full use of nets etc, it never occurred to me to set scenarios in this way. Usually it was a case of just get some bowling practice in.
As I said, it might be something that a few others have never thought of, so I'm happy to admit that I'm an eejit. Using a 'scenario' really helped my nets tonight, it gave me something to focus on and aim for, which, I feel made the session even more productive.
Give it a go, it can't do any harm!