Play Better Cricket

New season, new hope/expectation....set yourself any stringent or loose targets for 2013?

Focus is the main culprit which makes evn greatones to scrumble

Watch the ball! sounds simple.......... and never forget that you cant score runs on the bench. even though you are number 8 you put the same time and money into a game so take your time !

I play for Addington Village 1st Team

a double ashes summer !!!

Have a wide stance, with your throwing hand higher than your shoulder. Bring the throwing arm through in a slightly downward motion. Practice arm conditioning with resistance bands and start plyometric push ups.

Oxford Cricket Club

I play for Willoughby CC in Warwickshire (close to the Northants border); also coach the junior sections from 6-16. Also coach and area coordinator with Twenty20 Cricket Co. www.twenty20cricketcompany.com  

don't train in the nets indoors in the first place. Move them to the back wall, set up a strip in the middle and play a game of indoor cricket instead; even if it is just between 5 or 6 of you. Adds a bit of intensit...

If at the moment like me you are in the UK, now is the 'close season', but does your cricket stop?

Do you do any pre-seaosn training?

if so, what and when?

Do you combine it with any other seasonal sports i.e football, rugby. hockey?

Or don't...

pre-season (in the UK) = plenty of sit-ups to aid strength of back, + short to mid distance running for stamina, plus short bursts of short sprints-mid speed/3/4 pace runs over 25-30 yards (can you tell I'm predominately a bowler?!!)

For batsmen...

Well, season 2012 for me in central England was a virtual write-off and wash-out.  Cannot get on with indoor cricket that much so a winter of prep and fitness for '13 in store. What about everyone else?

Interesting, thanks chaps

Tewkesbury CC Under 13s

What's the name of the junior team

I play for Tewkesbury CC and manage/coach a junior team

nice 

I play for Battersea Ironsides Cricket Club - third XI 

does anyone here play for a club or anything like that?

RAIN! Too many games rained off for my liking. Considering a job placement somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere to get a second season in.

Bit of a happier bunny of late. 2 saturdays of cricket on the bounce - 1 a bit of a miserable defeat, the other just gone a win over top of the table. Never know, may even make it 3 weeks on the trot (before holiday)

Play better cricket? play some cricket would be good. 3 weekends sraight of cancellations due to wet pitches and a very unhappy cricketer here

2 weeks in a row with games would nice to even get opportunity to get either. Wet pitches are the bane of my life at the moment, as a player and junior team coach.

deffo looking for a 5-for and a fifty. same as every year!