The Geometry of Cricket Part 2: The Opening Bowler’s (Off-side) Field
In part one of the series, we looked at the straight field and getting the mid-on and mid-off fielders in the best positions
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Cricket A Leading Edge
Ex cricketers turned coaches, Wesley Durston & Patrick Latham, collaborate thought provoking and inspirational cricket coaching and mentoring publications. Their first book in a new series is Cricket A Leading Edge now available on Amazon UK and in various outlets around the UK.
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Three to Win
The recent England tour of South Africa culminated in a wonderful three-match T20I series during which we saw two final delivery results.
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Face Your Fears
The summer is still a way off, but now is the time to begin to tackle those fears and worries you will face when the first game comes around.
Taking Your Guard
What guard do you take? Is it a ‘two please’, or ‘one leg’? Maybe you are a bit maverick and you would like a guard ‘outside off’?
New Year, New Cricketer?
Happy New Year! The drink is finished off, there only the unwanted coffee creams hiding amongst the discarded wrappers in the bottom of the chocolate box, everyone is back to school and work, it is cold, dark and wet but thankfully, the 2020 season draws nearer with every day.
The Geometry of Cricket | Part 1: Setting the Straight Field
There are times at school when you wonder what the point in learning the thing you are learning is. Whenever will you put this geometric information to good use again after your GCSE maths exam?
Post-Season Blues
If like me, you may be already missing the 2019 season more so now that the clocks have gone back. It seems ages ago I put the kit away and bats into storage for the winter, then when I look forward to the 2020 season....
You Have Got to be Mankadding Me
In the recently completed WODI series between Australia and Sri Lanka, there appears to be evidence of the Sri Lankan team making a concerted effort to ensure that the Australian women did not steal even an inch at the non-strikers end.
Bowling the Wobble Seam | A Leading Edge
Sport needs to constantly evolve in order to stay ahead and remain interesting to those that play it and to the spectators that watch it, cricket is no different.
A Daily Dose of Ashes Cricket: #AshesIllustrated
Exciting News... The new book, 'The Ashes Illustrated', will be available from Amazon from Friday 27th September!
Playing the Straight Ball | A Leading Edge
I have noticed a trend in international cricket that more and more batsman are being bowled.
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A Visual Check on Your Rhythm
For a bowler it is crucial to have rhythm and to bowl with a consistent and repeatable action. For consistency with your accuracy, you need to ensure you have the consistency with your run up and bowling action.
England Are World Champions, Now It’s Our Turn
What a day.. What an event.. What a game! Old Father Time, looking down from his lofty perch above the score box had never seen or heard the like at his old ground ...
Bowling Tips for Maintaining Consistency
Condoning drinking in an article that is aimed at increasing the performance of young and impressionable cricketers?
Managing the Marked Bowler
However good your bowling unit is, there will always be one bowler identified as the weakest link, and good sides will always try to make the most of these overs.
Making the Most of Run Out Opportunities
It is a split second decision: bowler or ‘keeper? Get it right and with a good throw you affect the run out. Choose the wrong end and the chance goes begging.
A Load of Balls
I remember those net sessions, years ago, when I arrived late and had to make do with whatever ball I could find in the bag.
Catching the Speccie
Unless you’ve been living under a stone you will have seen Ben Stokes’s stunning catch at the Oval last week vs South Africa and you’ll continue to see it on the highlights reel of this World Cup
Saving a Single
For much of the time that you spend fielding you’ll probably find yourself in the ring saving or trying to save the single.
Over or Round?
When working with younger bowlers, we often see them bowling over and round the wicket with little or no idea why they are doing it, or how this can affect their opportunities of taking a wicket
Getting the Field Right
It is not only junior players that find setting a field tricky. Quite often at club level you see basic errors in field placing which can result in unnecessary runs scored against the bowler.
Finding Your Best Line
Today at training, it became apparent that some of our U14 age bowlers were struggling to adjust to find the right line. ‘But it would have hit the stumps, sir’, was the general response to the leg stump in-swingers...