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22.01.2022 Coach Roy's Off-season training Week 8: **Waiting for the Ball** Especially at the start of your innings, whether it be in a T20 or the longer format of the game, your key focus should be to wait for the ball and play it under your eyes. ... Had a new client Danny, come in over the weekend. It was evident during his first bucket of balls that he was just trying to hit the ball too hard. Although not evident in the few initial shots displayed in the video, he was also backing away to balls closer to his stumps (possibly to free his hands and hit the ball hard). In the next bucket, we placed a bat behind his feet to stop the back away movements and also increased the focus on not gripping the bat too hard, have loose wrists and my all time favourite suggestion - 'watch the ball rebound off the bat'! Worked an absolute treat. You can see from the side on video that Danny was concentrating on hitting the ball under his eyes and was pretty much middling everything. Those small punches into gaps brings about crucial singles and helps you get your innings going. The next challenge for Danny is to work on the timing of his footwork. Keep an eye out for his next video! #perthcoachroy #offseasontraining #waitingfortheball #cricketfever

17.01.2022 Coach Roy's Off-season training Week 6: **Building an Innings** I believe the key focus in all training sessions is to 'build your innings'. Whether you're in the nets for 5mins or 5hrs, the initial focus should be to get your eye in as this, in my belief, is the most difficult part about batting. ... In the video you see Sam initially pick his bat up with the correct grip (discussed this downfall in my first ever video). He then employs the method of 'watching the ball rebound off the face of this bat'. This ensures he plays the ball directly under his eyes and in the process "gets his eye in". We then move on to working on the 'Cut Shot'. The fundamental base of the cut shot is much the same as the pull shot: 1Hands to shoulders - forces you to move your hands up as high as possible before executing the shot. 2Back & Across - the feet should move back and across the stumps simultaneously as the hands go up. 3High to Low - the bat path must go from high to low in order to keep the ball down. 4Wrist Roll - try to roll your wrists on the ball at the point of contact to further ensure the ball is kept down. The only difference is that the ball is much further away from you than in the case of a 'pull shot' and as a result, we don't get our body inside the line of the ball but instead employ the cut shot as shown in the video. Finally, as Sam is currently playing a winter T20 league, he also practiced the 'Up & Over Cut Shot'. Here, he does not roll his wrists to keep the ball on the ground. To play this shot, the ball should ideally be higher than your wrists when you set up to play the shot. #perthcoachroy #offseasontraining #buildinganinnings #cricketfever

05.01.2022 Rained all weekend here in Perth and therefore, Week 6 of #perthcoachroy offseason training program could not be carried out. As a result, I've decided to throw it back to 2008 where I was lucky enough to be a member of this undefeated #darlot winning team of Wesley College. Few notable names in this picture. Couple have played test cricket for Australia and received the #baggygreen. Couple have played A-grade cricket, and a couple more have gone on to become professional sp...ortsmen outside of cricket. These are memories we cherish forever! #perthcoachroy #offseasontraining #darlot #wesleycollege #cricketfever

02.01.2022 Coach Roy's Off-season training Week 7: **Honing the Basics** Had a new client, Richard, come in to see me over the weekend. One of my greatest joys in coaching is to see clients not complain about honing the basics. Often you hear people say, "I can execute my skills when the bowlers are slow but not when they are fast". I've found that more often than not, this is a result of the fundamentals not being excellent. ... Richard says his weakness is on his middle and leg stump. As a left hander, you are big candidate of being given LBW with this weakness. In my coaching, I try to explain that, batsmen need to develop a 'batting formula' before going out to bat. The formula should simply consist of knowing you run scoring areas as well as knowing your weaknesses. If you can make sure that your defensive skills in your weak areas are in order, you can still contribute to your team by scoring runs through your strong areas. In Richard's case, he doesn't need to be able to play a Laxman-like on drive but does need to be good at keeping the ball out on middle and leg. The steps he's taking in the video to play the straight ball are as follows: 1Keep your head as up-right as possible ensuring you don't fall over. 2Instead of taking a big stride down in front of your stumps, simply just open up your front foot so that it doesn't get in the way of the bat coming straight down the line of the wickets. 3Watch the ball rebound off the face of your bat. This will ensure that you've played the ball right under your nose. Lightbulb Moment In point 2, the reason why I advise against a large stride to play this shot for left handed batsmen like Richard, is that more often than not, your brain will think that your leg is going down the line of leg stump, when in fact it's actually moved to slightly outside off stump. This means you've closed yourself off from being able to access the ball with the arc of your bat and as a result, LBW! #perthcoachroy #offseasontraining #honingbasics #cricketfever