idea driven Online batting course

 1. First thing as a batter you should have list of your own concrete weakness. Weakness means what you are lacking in your batting. Eg. Too many early dismissal in the form of catch out. 

2.Advanced level batting is always difficult. The more the quality of bowling the more a batter gets exposed and his penchant for getting our early is displayed,  more so in wicket which are assistance for bowlers. This is when  passionately honed skills you developed via identification of your weakness comes to your support. 

3.  At the associate level, most bowlers bowl under 130 km/hr. Thus you should not play  these bowlers normally and conventionally. You should always have idea of improvement and advancement in mind, and start playing the bowler from 20 yard to begin with, then keep on reducing the distance, playing from 18 yard and less. This keeps on making the bouncer lethal which rouses the bowler interest and allows batter to tighten the batting against bounce and pace when you have hurried for lack of time. 

4. As a batter always work on three skills to begin with. (a) Playing the ball very late (b) Total control in every angle of off-side in both front and back foot. (c) driving the ball with soft hand. This are skills which is taken for granted. Driving with soft hand, prevents you from getting out on most occasion and  gives you single. This skills establishes you as a batter of substance against amateurs and flukes and inconsistent quacks, and paper talents. 

5. For 1st hour of your training work on two ideas (a) off side game (b) soft hand driving. 

6. You cannot be  a successful batter unless you have total command on the off-side. 

7. To have this command, in the first place you should know the importance of this idea. In your practice play one ball normally, the second ball with the soft hand, even if the ball comes your way in the form of full. You have to work rigorously on the idea of soft hand driving.  Play One ball normally, next ball with the soft hand driving,  even while cutting. 

8. For the first hour hit fours if needed, but do not hit single ball in the air. Bc/mc, No sixes.  Work on each idea systematically. First hour belongs to the off-side. 

9. While you play in the off side use your wirst. Practice flicking your wrist and twisting your wrist, so that you find out ways to drive the ball in the multiple angle. Hitting the gap is supreme skill in batting. Hitting in conventional angles and hitting good shot to fielders and being bugged by dot ball has ill consequences in direct and indirect ways. 

10. Always find ways to play with straight bat . For this be prepared to change you stance,and bat or back lift. Nothing works like straight bat in batting.  Preparing hours and hours in the off side makes  your bat  naturally come down in a straight angle. Always try to learn from the stance of successful batter who could play with straight bat  like shewag, sachin, Mo yosuf, Lara, Dravid. You can take up good points from their stance and add in to your game. This also gives you a placebo effect and pushes your confidence to advanced levels.  

8. For second hour of training. Ask the bowler to bowl the middle stump line, and take a guard one stump outside the leg stump, that is  give yourself bit of room. Leave the balls bowled outside off. This also develops patience. Patience prevents you from getting out by playing a useless impulsive shot.  And play all the shots in the range of  mid-off, straight, and mid-on. Not a single shot to midwicket. Midwicket is like a tavern. Avoid midwicket for now in the second hour of your training. If you have play the ball to cover, leave that ball. In the second hour of our training we are doing controlled practice of playing straight. This is a most significant idea which will always help you to pile runs with healthy strike rate. Hit fours, but do not hit any ball in the air. Exercise control in the game despite playing your shots. This prevents you from playing rash shots. Prevents you from having soft dismissal.  

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