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How to advance down the pitch and hit over cover?
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Cricket CoachCoach
Dear Sameer
In response to your question, the key points to hitting the ball well successfully over covera are summerised below.
What I will say is that this is quite an advanced skill, and something that will need constant practise to achieve consistency with.
You need to be comfortabel with hitting the ball in the air in a controlled way, as well as have an awareness of the field placings too.
The key oints are%3A
1) Quick feet from the batter are essential when getting to the ball.
2) When advancing down the wicket, batter must aim to keep head as still as possible, and eyes level.
3) Batter needs to be in a still position by the time they make contact, and well balanced.
4) Batter opens the face of the bat, giving themselves room to hit the ball over the off-side.
I have attached a drill to help you get started with this.
Hope it helps!
Tom
Playing with spin leg spin 1
DESCRIPTION
Can be done in pairs/ groups of three. One batter, a feeder, and a wicket keeper. 4 incrediballs or cricket balls are recommended, as they have a seam to spin ball. 4 good quality feeds eachPlayer feeds from one knee, throwing ball under arm as a leg spinner, with the key being a looped feed. (If players canât spin it, a slow looped feed is sufficient). Feeder aims to land ball on a full length, on off stump. Batter looks to play ball straight, through zone 1, to be marked out from between the stumps to cover as shown.NB â Left handerâs will still score through same zone, and should ideally be grouped together. PROGRESSION Make target area smaller, if playing to square of wicket, make target straighter.Introduce points scoring system.Bring in Zone 2 (different scoring area for length balls)Change length of feedIntroduce coming down wicket.
Playing with spin leg spin 1
DESCRIPTION
Can be done in pairs/ groups of three. One batter, a feeder, and a wicket keeper. 4 incrediballs or cricket balls are recommended, as they have a seam to spin ball. 4 good quality feeds eachPlayer feeds from one knee, throwing ball under arm as a leg spinner, with the key being a looped feed. (If players canât spin it, a slow looped feed is sufficient). Feeder aims to land ball on a full length, on off stump. Batter looks to play ball straight, through zone 1, to be marked out from between the stumps to cover as shown.NB â Left handerâs will still score through same zone, and should ideally be grouped together. PROGRESSION Make target area smaller, if playing to square of wicket, make target straighter.Introduce points scoring system.Bring in Zone 2 (different scoring area for length balls)Change length of feedIntroduce coming down wicket.
