Burgey

Move the comma to before you and the whole legal profession jumps for joy

You not retired yet ****?

Good to see you haven't changed much as far as your posting style is concerned either. Would have probably hung myself if I had come back and found everyone all happy and groovy.

Yeah didn't feel like posting here for a while. After my avatar was removed for no reason by the mods who let Bun continue to post garbage. Left before the Indian tour of the Caribbean and came back about a month back. Place is slowly becoming good again.

Yeah, so if I counter troll you during a game, thats cool? And don't take what I say seriously, like, ever. Especially during a match.

Please don't get banned before the series starts. Would be a boring series.

Your work this morning has been top notch. Just try and save some for when the series actually starts

I think I misunderstood your "insecure thread" and therefore owe you an apology for my rather careless comment on Imran/Lillee thread. Sorry about that.

Hey mate, hope things are well with you. Can you please stop the trolling of the Indian fans in the Australia in South Africa thread.

Cheers,
James

Caught from just after Watson's initial breakthrough up until Hughes was out, then left to go pick up my daughter. Was following the match thread on the bus, seemed everytime I refreshed there was a wicket although I didn't realise until you were 8 down that you'd only scored 21. Wish I'd seen it live, would have been incredible.

So glad I caught Clarke's innings, one of the best I've seen.

Haha, my most recent comment in the tour thread is an attempt to bait howardj after I gave him a spray last night.

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/2691530-post2474.html

Abso-****ing-lutely.

But I better not post in the tour thread because, well you know.

****, you're doing it again!

That at the end of the post made it about 10 times worse as well haha.

Maybe I'm too young. In 18 years time when I'm the same age as you are now I may attain that level of proficiency..



(Did I do it right? )

FFFFUUUUUU.

Teach me the art of just infractionless baiting, I'll be indebted to you for life

In case you missed it, he's deleted it.

Just letting you know that if he doesn't delete it off of his own bat, I'm happy to do so.

Stop playing both ends against the middle, old man!

A decent drill to help them attain a more positive outlook is feeding with different colour tennis balls - e.g. red for defending, yellow for driving. The technique should stay the same from head movement, shoulder dip, backswing, step, only altering in terms of the acceleration in the downswing.

There are other bits and pieces you can do to look to open the leg side, particularly in terms of where the front foot plants (too many boys align themselves to extra cover and therefore miss out on everything through the legside), but this is easier to do once you've got the fluid backswings.

Let me know how they get on!

This is the New World Order, isn't it? Australians coming to English coaches for batting tips!

That does sound a familiar problem, though - I've seen it plenty of times and it can be immensely frustrating from the sidelines, when all you're thinking is "hit the bloody ball..." Most of the time, I think it comes down to a fear of getting out, with the mindset being to defend first, which then leaves them in no position to despatch the generous full tosses and long hops that are part and parcel of U11 cricket.

This can often manifest itself as really low backswings, which give no scope for the ball to be hit hard anywhere other than up (think Paul Collingwood at his eyeball-scarring worst). Getting higher, more off-stump backswings, and getting them to delay the downswing from this high point can frequently lead them to be able to get the ball off the square without trying to force it... "forcing" often leads to the bottom hand taking over and kids batting like Graeme Smith. Urgh.