Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #1585 –
Years ago my brother coached junior cricket had some odd bats in his kit a bit like this, but one like ProfE described had triangles cut down the edges to be used for slips practice to make the ball spin and act less unpredictably.
For batting he had bats with long tapered shoulders, tapered toes, short bats, thin bats, all designed to get kids thinking about using the whole bat and where to place their hands.
He had one very good coaching technique that helped kids heaps with defense. He'd get them in the net and bowl to them and have them catch the ball with no bat at all. He was making the point that if you had to stand there and catch the ball you would never not get a hand on it. His point was to get the kids thinking about the best way to defend and using the splice for many defensive shots by getting their hands close to the ball. I was watching Kohli at the weekend and he bats very much in that manner, low hands quick wrist movement.
Back on the cricket, Langer has been in the media stating no changes for Perth. I'm not sure if this is good to hear him backing them in, or back to the bad old days of a welded on line up.