Your Cricket How do you get yourself out of a bad patch of batting form?

[playkid12]

I've been in horrible form before and have bounced back. Sometimes, there's something wrong in your technique. I just go back to the basics - keeping the eye on the ball, make sure I'm moving my feet. I don't try to do anything out of the ordinary. Since I'm usually aggressive, my defensive strokes aren't as good and I get out if I play too defensively. I try to play my natural game, a little more cautious but not defensive. While batting, I focus on my basics. After I put on around 20-25, I usually start to see the ball better, etc, and open up more.

What I also have recently realized is that if I dwell on the fact that I'm in bad form, I do worse. More recently, I've actually taken advice from a friend of mine, who is pretty consistent, to not think about form at all to freshen up the mind when off the field. Then, go to practice and keep trying to hit whatever type of ball you get out to. It's also important to know to practice all the other deliveries too.

However, if there is some ball that you're constantly struggling from, there could be something wrong with your technique. Small adjustments go a long way in those.

It takes a lot of determination, concentration, and practice to get back in form.

 

[Chimp132]

You are aware that those sort of quality pitches that you see on television here in Australia are only found in Tests, ODI's, Domestic Matches & probably 1st & 2nd grade matches. That's it.

Do you really think that the producers would put so much effort in for a junior pitch when they aren't getting paid?

what lol ? ! if its a half decent club, you have a good groundsman, good groundsman make good pitches, good pitches in australia would be hard and nice to bat on due to the weather conditions.

for my clubs junior matches, they have excelent pitches to play on and im in england !

 

[Simbazz]

I agree with Chimp when he makes the point of balls bouncing higher in Aus than England.

It is sterotypical to think every pitch in Aus will bounce up around your chest. Due to the weather it is more likely.

In a bat trott of form? Always along the ground! Simple!

 

[Hooper]

Well, you know your weakness now, right?
What are your strengths?


Bat to your strengths. You good at driving? Do it. You fast? Get some singles.

As I said, my driving is my strength and my stamina, with quick running between wickets. I am very good at this, but I just want to add another part to my game.

Iam a singles man, but I want to score runs quickly, not just ones and two's. But hey, maybe that's just my style and that what makes me the player that Iam, so I might just stick to my strengths and just improve like this.

I agree with Chimp when he makes the point of balls bouncing higher in Aus than England.

It is sterotypical to think every pitch in Aus will bounce up around your chest. Due to the weather it is more likely.

In a bat trott of form? Always along the ground! Simple!

Lol, thats not my problem, and its kinda hard to hook and pull along the carpet, Iam no Ricky Ponting:cool:

 

[Simbazz]

Hoop's my old matey, roll the wrists

 

[Animator!]

Thats a pretty stupid way of thinking and a terrible stereotype. Thats like me saying " If you play in Englan you should be able to dance down the wicket and whip fast bowlers through mid-wicket".

No, it's not stupid. You play in Australia, hard, bouncy tracks conducive to pace and bounce, therefore the cut and pull shots should be played with a lot of regularity in the country. Therefore with it being one of the most profitable shots it should be one that the vast majority of players should play very well.

And actually, the English version of what I said is driving. The whipping fact bowlers through midwicket you can't do in England because of the pitches in general, so that retort is ridiculous. Those who play in England should be very good on the drive, a more profitable shot on slow, low pitches.

 

[Hooper]

No, it's not stupid. You play in Australia, hard, bouncy tracks conducive to pace and bounce, therefore the cut and pull shots should be played with a lot of regularity in the country. Therefore with it being one of the most profitable shots it should be one that the vast majority of players should play very well.

And actually, the English version of what I said is driving. The whipping fact bowlers through midwicket you can't do in England because of the pitches in general, so that retort is ridiculous. Those who play in England should be very good on the drive, a more profitable shot on slow, low pitches.

Mate, I dont play on the GABBA and the WACA...us club cricketers play on pitches made by 50 year old gardeners, not the world's best curators. So our pitches are normally crumbling pitches you would see in the sub continent - not fast bouncy pitches that you see on TV!

 

[aussie_ben91]

Hooper's right. That's what I was trying to say in the first place. In club cricket here in Australia they don't produce first-class pitches, pitches I've played on have been a tad grassy & often pace bowlers will get the ball to skid through a little.

It should also be noted that our two most successful batsman over the last 7 years, Ponting & Hayden rarely play the traditional cutshot so that doesn't mean the pitches here in Australia are a cutting paradise.

 

[Hooper]

Hooper's right. That's what I was trying to say in the first place. In club cricket here in Australia they don't produce first-class pitches, pitches I've played on have been a tad grassy & often pace bowlers will get the ball to skid through a little.

It should also be noted that our two most successful batsman over the last 7 years, Ponting & Hayden rarely play the traditional cutshot so that doesn't mean the pitches here in Australia are a cutting paradise.

Well said Ben, it shows that Im not the only one who cannot believe that people think that all Aussies should cut and pull like Ponting!

 

[Chimp132]

we arnt saying that you get pitches as good as the grounds we see on the tv, what we're saying is that the weather conditions in australia is normaly very hot, so we think that the ball would bounce up quite a bit even if the wicket in crumbling.

 

[King Pietersen]

I somehow played myself out of a patch of bad scores today, scored 1,0,0*,1 and 0 recently but i made a conscious effort to stand tall in the crease and it seemed to work. I got myself in and then hit out at the end, with some nice drives and pulls. 28* isnt a bad return to form :P. Not that i had much form in the first place.

 

[aussie_ben91]

we arnt saying that you get pitches as good as the grounds we see on the tv, what we're saying is that the weather conditions in australia is normaly very hot, so we think that the ball would bounce up quite a bit even if the wicket in crumbling.

Go down to Melbourne or Tasmania. Very cold & overcast.

 

[Chimp132]

im talking about the summer there, but in the winter you still get around 15degeees dont you ?

 

[kifty121]

im not a good batsman atm mate, but im slowly but surely improving and it seems to have worked fine.

strip ur batting down to several shots.
forward defenseive, back foot devensive, leave, duck, and leg glance, oh and the cut is a good option.
the idea is, u can stay in and accumilate the runs and stick around in the innings, plus it gives u time in the middle, and if u can stay in, thats a confidence booster in itself.
andrew strauss ddi it wen he was in poor form, and now look at him, hes england captain and englands best batsman according to the rankings :P
yesterday, i pulled off like a 20 ball duck, usually, im pissed off for days about my duck, but becos i stayed in and tried to keep the hard hitting batsman down the otherv end on strike, i felt like id done a job.

also, just accumilate tennis balls in a bucket, and go to the nets or garden and just practice the basics of batting, head down, straight bat, eyes level, pickup over off stump blah blah blah.

also, once im done doing the basics of batting, im using a thinner bat to improve hand eyue coordination, also taking up ping pong improves hand eye coordination and helps loooaaddss with cricket.

oh and, dont lose patience.