WHAT TO THINK ABOUT WHEN BATTING | THE 3 R’S

[@rhyshorne1285]

This boy has a serious talent. Deserves way more time on this awesome channel

[@cricketmentoring]

Awesome!

[@dvilla2833]

This channel deserves more credit than it has, love from Sri Lanka❤️

[@VanguardASO]

Thanks for this video! I'm a few years late but I found this really useful!

[@amiafish]

Great technical discussion at the end of the session regarding head position. As Scollsy mentions, managing head position is one of the key challenges for every batter. I posted a comment on the previous video from Teague's session, but it applies equally here in the context of the discussion at the end of the video: "Might be an idea to open up the stance...helps to center the head over middle stump, improves balance wicket to wicket. Gary Palmer talks about this a lot. Would be interested in hearing your thoughts Scollsy on the relationship between stance alignment, head position, balance and bat path. No question that all of these improve with an open stance for on-side play...the challenge is getting the front shoulder around for cover drives." As we all know, when the head falls away to the off side, we end up playing around our front pad at everything straight or legside-ish...which makes it impossible to get full face of the bat on the shot...everything gets squirted too fine. Although it seems counterintuitive, starting with shoulders/hips open (e.g. pointing at a straight mid on) actually straightens the bat path wicket to wicket. It does so by (1) centering and balancing your head and (2) clearing the space that would otherwise be taken by your front leg. This allows you to access straight balls and drive them to straight or to mid on...you can still flick square if you wish but you're not forced to as per a conventional side-on stance with head falling over to the off side. Just something to think about! Love the videos!

[@mitchscricket3194]

amiafish so true

[@MrBonified66]

I had a couple of sessions where Gary Palmer was coaching 5 coaches, and then the coaches were coaching us as guinea pigs (about 15 of us). They were really interesting and Gary was great, but I found (eventually, after a not great season) that it didn't work for me. You have to be able to open your hips but keep your shoulders in the right line, and with me being a bit older and not that flexible/athletic, when I opened my hips, my shoulders came along and were too open on the shot. So I went back to a more side on approach as Tom teaches. Try it by all means and Gary's courses are well worth a look if they're still available but do what works for you!

[@amiafish]

@@MrBonified66 Absolutely. Every batter has different issues, and for some a side-on stance would be best. But I think the open stance should be taught as the 'default stance', as it allows access to more areas of the field right away, with better inherent balance (due to the head being centered wicket to wicket). I think the good reasons why the side-on stance became the 'conventional' stance have now largely been and gone. Firstly, the long format game is all about bowling 5th stump into three slips and a gully with batters taking up the challenge and stroking it through the covers. A closed shoulder and straight back-lift fits the bill perfectly. Secondly, the conventional parallel stance (toes aligned to parallel to point, with shoulders and hips aligned to toes) is exceedingly simple to teach and to understand...it's very intuitive. But things have changed. Most cricket these days is short format. Bowlers attack the stumps more often and batters need to be able to powerfully access the leg side as easily as the off-side if they want to dominate an attack. Clearing the front leg allows batters to access the boundary anywhere from point to fine leg (e.g. 360degree players like Maxwell, de Villiers, Butler all do this). Essentially, you can't get "tucked up" with an open stance in the way you can if you stay side on. But by far the biggest issue is head position. While first class batters can retain a good central head position even with a closed stance, they often have bad patches where they lose their head to the off side, and fall across their front pad (e.g. Aaron Finch recently). And that's first class batters. Your average grade cricketer fares far worse. Falling over and playing around the front pad is absolutely endemic at the grade level. It's simple physics. Your head is the heaviest part of your body (exacerbated by the filthy big helmet you're dropping on top of it!), and if you stick it out to your off side, your body will follow. On the other hand, if you center your head wicket to wicket (by opening up your shoulders), your weight goes down the pitch far more readily. I acknowledge that this will create bat-path issues for people who are accustomed to a straight back-lift, but it's much easier to coach the hands to come through the ball than to stop your head from falling over every single ball. Anyway, fascinating topic. Very much enjoyed your comment.

[@MrBonified66]

@@amiafish And you! That's all good stuff. The main thing with young players especially is not to instruct as a one size fits all but let them find what works and don't change too much if it's succeeding!

[@amiafish]

@@MrBonified66 Spot on mate. 👍

[@Rajan-sz5il]

Love the description of Smith’s technique. Spot on!

[@mitchscricket3194]

Great video love the tips

[@cricketmentoring]

Glad you like them!

[@nirmalsharma6559]

This is also true for bowling in my opinion.

[@mmss5152]

Yeah it also works with fielding and keeping

[@morrisizing]

Definitely seem to work - he had almost too much energy early on in his pre ball routine/ set-up, but looked much more relaxed as it went on 👌

[@sportax9205]

Great couching sir

[@nimeshagunasinghe5168]

Love this! Massive fan of the podcasts too. - From 🇱🇰

[@Supacoopaofawesomeness]

What is being used to bowl the ball

[@akshaysaini6846]

Great content .... 💯❣ thanks for such insights 🙋‍♂️

[@cricketmentoring]

Always welcome

[@surekhamediratta9075]

Really good session on the mental side of cricket

[@RiskyRaja2809]

Sir Please make a video on how to work on elbow while batting

[@ishankpandey4410]

Sir please tell me the drills for bowling which can be done in these pandemic days

[@Ronihot2]

Thank you very much

[@MrBonified66]

If you keep scoring when the ball's on the stumps, then the bowler's going to have to bowl somewhere else and now you won't be bowled or LBW! Take small risks early to make your innings easier throughout.

[@sachinsampath841]

Sir im a right hander bats man and im weak to play when he bowls left arm over pls say some tips sir👈

[@precisioncricket6042]

The best thing to do would be to open up your front toe slightly to point more towards the bowler - also make sure you keep your head balanced and eyes level so that you can judge the angle better 👍🏽

[@sachinsampath841]

@@precisioncricket6042 thanks

[@jaspersinclair5459]

cheers

[@chowdhurysufia2693]

Sir what is the name of this ball?? Please told me sir.I buy this ball.I am from Bangladesh.

[@jordansondergeld6411]

esketit

[@rayyyzz7]

Why does his bat look so small?

[@dutz2116]

Do you ever just think you overthink things far to much

[@firsthome4398]

lets recap calm,learn and reset between balls just try calm my mind.the time when bowler is walking towards his position calm and reset.do not move after hit just stay at that postion for a while and think and learn and what can i do,how does i felt that ball.but when facing a ball only your mindset should be on ball.yes it it try you must calm your mind between balls but not think too much about balls just calm and maybe some game plan in some balls.just understand it.that was nice. here this batsmen have a great energy so his motive we be to get into the ball and that maybe his routine and not try to make him more calm scools. THANKS i am karthik from india kerala h

[@Tales-of-Tails542]

Hii

[@lavarball61]

7:37 shikhar Dhawan disagrees

[@sachinsampath841]

Sir can i join in your cricket club

[@cricketmentoring]

Ofcourse

[@sachinsampath841]

@@cricketmentoring sir how to join where is your club I m from Chennai

[@sachinsampath841]

@@cricketmentoring tom sir pls put more vedios in this lockdown so we could learn

[@AbdurRehman-cv6rt]

Nice netting but