We'd the second session of the coaching course today - and I'm bloody wrecked after it!! We warmed up with a game quite like stumpball, but the objective was to complete 10 passes to score a point. I couldn't breathe after it, which I was a bit surprised by. I'm not super-fit or anything like it, but I can normally run about for 5 minutes without hyperventilating. I've since developed a bit of a chesty cough though - so I reckon that goes some way to explain it, must have been coming on since before today.
We covered a bit of fielding (intercepting and retrieving), a bit of wicketkeeping and a few back foot shots. We also did the run-up and bound - which was a complete head-wreck! I think the problem is that the bowling action is fairly complicated, with different parts of the body doing different things - and in order to match it to the technical model, you have to try and hold all the different parts in your head at the same time!
We finished the session off with the "full hit to leg". Basically it's a cross batted shot to a full toss about waist high on leg stump. Front foot towards the ball - down on the back knee - and smash the ball to the leg side boundary! Feels great when it works, but there is a danger with it, if you don't pick the right ball top edges are nigh on inevitable. Last season, this is pretty much the shot I used to get my boundary (yes singular!), off a very long hop by a leg spinner. It's also quite close to the shot that I got caught off in a cup match to a full toss :/ Win some lose some I suppose!!
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Ed, not heard much from you lately, what you up to? Are you gearing up for the summer yet - have you got net sessions planned at all in the coming months?
Dave
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