Your Cricket Please comment on my grip and stance
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Believe
Club Captain
Looks pretty good to me.. Although if you had footage of yourself actually playing some deliveries (From a bowling machine, or a friend) then we could give a bit more feedback. The only thing I really noticed was a lack of foot movement. You have no trigger movement, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but the second block you played had no foot movement whatsoever.. So really that's all I can say.. Get someone to bowl outside off-stump, over and over and over, and just practice getting that front foot towards the ball, toes pointed where you want to play it, and practice driving/defending over and over until the foot starts moving before your hands do.
In saying that though, it IS really hard to judge from this short clip.. (And in re-watching, I noticed that the first shot you play is near perfect.. Which kind of negates everything I've just typed.. But since I'm too lazy to delete it all, it can stay.) If possible, try to get some footage of you actually batting and try again.. I don't think we can help much at this stage mate.
In saying that though, it IS really hard to judge from this short clip.. (And in re-watching, I noticed that the first shot you play is near perfect.. Which kind of negates everything I've just typed.. But since I'm too lazy to delete it all, it can stay.) If possible, try to get some footage of you actually batting and try again.. I don't think we can help much at this stage mate.
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
I'm not a qualified coach, but it looks as if you're trying too hard to get your stance right and forgetting about everything else. It's as if you're trying to get your stance looking like Rohit Sharma, but it's inhibiting the rest of your batting.
If I were in your position (as I recently was when I rebuilt my batting from scratch) I'd try to find something that's comfortable for you. Something balanced. For me, that meant picking up my bat, then standing in a position that's kind of half-forward, but there's no right or wrong way of doing things. For me, it worked out and I ended up looking something like this:
Do not worry about trigger movements right now - when they go right they can be helpful, but if they become too exaggerated then they can ruin your entire game - just look at Ed Cowan and Eoin Morgan a couple of years ago.
The most important thing is to be relaxed and to move your feet. It's not easy, so don't do anything (like copy someone else) that makes it more difficult.
One other tip - footwork isn't about big movements, it's about decisive movements.
Hopefully some of that was helpful.
If I were in your position (as I recently was when I rebuilt my batting from scratch) I'd try to find something that's comfortable for you. Something balanced. For me, that meant picking up my bat, then standing in a position that's kind of half-forward, but there's no right or wrong way of doing things. For me, it worked out and I ended up looking something like this:
Do not worry about trigger movements right now - when they go right they can be helpful, but if they become too exaggerated then they can ruin your entire game - just look at Ed Cowan and Eoin Morgan a couple of years ago.
The most important thing is to be relaxed and to move your feet. It's not easy, so don't do anything (like copy someone else) that makes it more difficult.
One other tip - footwork isn't about big movements, it's about decisive movements.
Hopefully some of that was helpful.
bennyt231
County Cricketer
A little late on this topic, but from where I'm looking at your technique, I can see one major flaw from both videos. Your weight transfer. This starts at your shoulder. Your front shoulder doesn't get down into the ball at all, which means that as you are hitting the ball your weight is going back instead of flowing into and through the shot. You need to get your front shoulder over the ball.
McgrathHussey
School Cricketer
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Very nice legs may be spread a little too far apart but apart from that have fun piling on the runs
