Went to see cricket coach Steve Selwood. I’d tried a sports psychologist. What harm could a coach do? The plan was to strip my batting to its bare essentials. I wasn’t sure if I’d gone to see the right coach. Selwood was an aggressive left hand opener for Derbyshire who failed to reach a 100 by one run. What he would give to face that ball again on 99 again.
I’d settle for Selwood’s ability since I can’t have Lara’s or Gower’s. In one session Steve figured out why I veered between being excruciatingly crap and competent. I told him that my balance vanished between deliveries. I didn’t know why everything was fine one ball and a bloody mystery the next.
if you’ve read previous posts you’ll know I’ve written libraries on being balanced at the crease. It’s the most frustrating, unsolvable, unfathomable riddle. Sometimes I feel like a twisted lampost at the crease; disjointed, unable to keep my head still, in line, etc. But a few taps of the bat later, I’m dead eye, even keel, ready to take on the world.
We found the answer today. Selwood spotted the problem quickly. “When you pick the bat up, stay still for as long as possible.” It worked. Sounds obvious and I ‘ve been told this before but I’m certain I wasn’t listening.
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Hi mate, I played with you at south hampstead a couple seasons back.
…. saw your site & vids.
By the way, I play for finchley now, racked up 2 hundreds, a couple 90’s, & a few 50’s last year. Hahaha.
Good luck with the search for your 100.
Great backlift, almost, dare i say it, Laraesque.
I’m also chronicling my club cricket adventure, not of making a hundred, um, have 2 already, but of trying to play 50 games of cricket in one summer at http://mountainchickens.com. I blog rolled you over at mine. Good luck.
I enjoyed this video, educational indeed.
Really liked the coaches attitude too, he was taking no shit!
Nice work Mr Redfern!
Saw Mr Selwood bat for Finchley CC? against our 1st XI, North Middlesex CC, and he absolutely smashed us. It was the Middlesex 20/20 cup semi-finals, and the boy sure can hit.
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