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Are you a Boycott or a Botham?

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Is it true that cricketers are either a Boycott or a Botham?
It's often said to be the case that you are either cautious in nature and play safe
(Boycott) or flamboyant and risky (Botham).
In fact, I have found that good players can operate using both philosophies
depending on the game situation. Even Boycott could attack when he felt it needed
(which wasn't very often).
How to switch between attack and defence
Switching approach is a matter of knowing which state of mind you are in at the
time and calculating the risks and benefits. To do this, your tactical awareness
needs to be second to none. So read up on the game, get advice from more
experienced players and keep PitchVision Academy close to hand.
When playing (even when you are waiting to bat) you should be constantly thinking
about the game, for example:
• Is the team in trouble needing a more defensive approach?

• Do you need quick runs to get back into the chase?
• How can you bowl to certain batsmen to control run rate or take wickets?
You also need to be able to stop yourself from the wrong approach. The stop
technique is an excellent way to keep yourself in check while you are working out
what tactic is best for you.
Finally, you need to develop the confidence in your own ability to play well using
either approach. Many players stick to one way because they don't know if they can
play with any other approach. Don't let fear hold you back like that. Once you have
decided on a plan you know you can perform, go with it.
Combine these three elements well and you can take the best approaches from both
players to improve your game.
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pressure? PitchVision Academy has a complete training course to build up your
confidence, concentration and skyrocket your success.
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Can you try too hard?

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Ever heard a conversation at your cricket club go something like this:
Senior Player: That Jim is a good player but he tries too hard.
Club Pro: We will soon get that out of him!
*laughter*
The underlying sentiment seems to be that success is wanted by the club, but you
can't be seen to be trying too hard to get it.
It's this very approach that stops teams warming up properly, practising regularly
with intensity and getting the best out of each other.
Commitment is fine once the white line is crossed and the umpire calls 'play', but
not before.
The only difference is time

Why can't a club side take a professional approach to preparation as well as play?
You can work just as effectively as an amateur or semi-pro as you can as a
professional. You just have less time to do it.
Follow the approach of the Irish for a great example.
It's all down to a matter of your mental approach.
Yet players hold themselves back because they don't want to be seen to be too keen.
They want their natural talent to carry them through rather than make the most of
what they have.
It makes no sense.
Surely if you are going to do something, you do it was well as you can in the time
and knowledge available?
I can help with the knowledge all you have to do is bring full commitment as much
as you can. After all, if others in your club see the dramatic improvement that good
preparation, better fitness and a well rounded mental approach makes then maybe
they will try a bit harder too.

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by Cricket mental training and psychology: The complete guide f (not verified) |
Thu, 27/03/2008 - 13:48
[...] the right attitude Staying motivated Practice like a physical genius Are you a
Boycott or a Botham? Can you try too hard? Train when it doesn’t count as well as
when it does Are you teaching yourself to fail? How to [...]

by dhruv (not verified) | Tue, 04/11/2008 - 14:27
what do you exactly mean by 'trying too hard'?

by David Hinchliffe | Tue, 04/11/2008 - 14:39
Let me answer your question with a question. What do you think it is?

by Ty (not verified) | Tue, 04/11/2008 - 22:10
You can never be trying too hard!! It's really annoying when i see probably about 80 -
90% of people training not trying as hard as I know they can, and therefore not
getting the best out of each other at the training session. If only everyone put in alot
of effort, we would all get better together!

by edladd | Wed, 05/11/2008 - 17:03
It's not that David's suggesting that you shouldn't try hard - in fact quite the
opposite. What he's pointing out is that there's a sentiment in club cricket that it's
"uncool" to be seen putting a lot of effort into your practice. You should just be able
to turn up for a game and your natural talent will see you through - which is
ridiculous!!!
I think it partially stems from people thinking - "I'll never be good enough to play at
the very top level - therefore I'll slot into a team at a level that matches my current
talent and get by without having to try". This view only holds if other people at that
level aren't getting better - so there's an old-fashioned resentment against people
that are trying to improve beyond their current level.
That's what I think anyway!

by David Hinchliffe | Thu, 06/11/2008 - 10:53
Totally agree Ed
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Does your club make this mistake when you train?

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A couple of seasons ago the cricket club I play for were in trouble in the league.
With one game to go the first team needed a win to avoid a fate worse than an
England Twenty20 performance: Relegation to the depths of the third division.
We were confident victory could be ours. Home advantage and a weak opposition
gave us the upper hand. The first team all turned up for extra training on Thursday.
The captain demanded the selected team arrived at 11:30 the morning of the match
(start time is 2pm) for practice and warm ups.
The question I have is where was this motivated effort in April and May?
The big mistake

Had we put in the work at the start of the season we would not have been praying
for victory on the last day. This was the big mistake we made and I'm guessing many
other clubs do the same thing every season.
You can't make up for several seasons of neglect with a couple of extra practice
sessions.
All training, technical included, is an accumulation over days, weeks, months and
years.
As Alwyn Cosgrove points out, the difference between winning and losing is how
much you have put in beforehand. It takes the motivation of a champion to regularly
head for the gym in the dead of winter or go to training every week (even in April,
even when you don't want to). The investment you make in your strength, speed,
power, skill and work capacity in those regular, often boring, punch-the-clock
sessions are the ones that really count when you go out onto the pitch.
But enough ranting. Did we win that last game?
We did thanks to an incredibly calm last over boundary from our number 8 batsman.
Fact is my club has enough talent to be challenging for a first division place, not
scrapping at the bottom. The difference is all down to putting in the hard yards all
year.
Do you?

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Thu, 04/10/2007 - 16:24
[...] sertuyyu wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFact is my

club has enough talent to be challenging for a first division place, not scrapping at
the bottom. The difference is all down to putting in the hard yards all year. Do you?
Filed in:accumulation Coaching fitness motivation … [...]

by Adam C (not verified) | Fri, 05/10/2007 - 10:42
2 1/2 hours seems excessive for a club game?
I think just over an hour of intensive warm up and prematch practice is more than
enough.
There is no point trying to compensate for the hard yards that should have been
done prior to the match day.

by David Hinchliffe (not verified) | Fri, 05/10/2007 - 16:23
I agree Adam. In fact, that's the point I was trying to make.
I don't recommend the approach we took that year
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Are you teaching yourself to fail?

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How quickly do you give up the cause on the cricket pitch?
For some, no matter what level they are playing, the very idea of giving up is
impossible to conceive. At the other end, there are many who throw up their hands
at the first sign of team or individual failure. The latter approach may be more
natural but it teaches you nothing but how to fail more often.
As SquatRX pointed out recently:

"For those who cannot separate performance from outcome, repeated
failure... becomes internalized, eroding self-esteem and leading to a
state of learned helplessness."
You may instinctively have a way of dealing with negatives as they enter your mind.
If you do you are lucky. For most, bad results on the pitch lead to negative thinking
which leads to more bad results.
Failure breeding failure.
The tips Boris uses work well for cricketers too: Use a range of training and coaching
methods (like practice matches as well as nets), ignore negative thinking and plan
goals you can control.
Simple stuff that is easy to implement and is proven to have a direct impact on your
game.
Remember cricket is 80% mental. Give yourself mental nets as well as normal ones.

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How to avoid becoming Mikka Bouzu

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Who has not had a mikka bouzu experience sometime in their life?
In Japanese, there is an expression "mikka bouzu", which means "three-

day monk". It is used to describe people who start things with big
promises and great enthusiasm, but never see them through to the end.
I know I have often started something in this way only to give up. I also know from
my own success in fitness training and nutrition that it's possible to get past the
third day, even for someone with terrible willpower like me.
The saddest part is that anyone, and I really mean anyone, can significantly improve
their game just by turning up.
It's a hard journey but those who stick with it will always improve given enough time
and effort. So how do we keep ourselves from giving in?
Willpower
If we put anything down to sheer willpower more often than not we will fail.
Willpower requires thought and the more we have to think about something the less
chance we have of doing it. That's why distractions are so welcoming. Surfing the
net or watching TV is so much easier than doing stuff that takes energy and brain
power.
Let me give you an example. You want to get fit so you join a gym. You go a couple
of times then you feel tired one day. Suddenly the sofa is more attractive and you
take the day off. A day becomes a week. You start feeling guilty and the more guilt
you feel the harder it is to force yourself to go. Besides, you figure, you don't know
what program to use and your diet needs looking at anyway. The whole thing
requires too much thinking so you block it out and your good intentions are blown.
The key is to do all your thinking in advance.
Then all you have to do is tick off the brainless tasks and get on with succeeding
without realising it.
Stop thinking, start doing

Productivity guru David Allen often jokes that he only actually thinks once a week.
The rest of the time he is just doing the things he has thought about. How would this
work for the club cricketer looking to avoid the curse of mikka bouzu?
Try this process:
• Work out where the end is before you start. Many people start something
before they really know what it is they want. You might have a vague idea like
get fit, lose weight or get more runs but what will success actually look like?
Write it down. You can be as detailed as you want but you want to be as clear as
possible. How will you feel? What will it look like? Who else will benefit?
• Work out ways to get there. Once you know the destination, you need to start
planning the journey. What factors are in your control that will get you there?
Write them down too.
• Work out the actions you need to get started. Now we start getting to the
practical level. Here you start to see the next step to take. It might be making a
phone call or setting up a meeting but is has to be a physical action you can
complete.
• Review every week. Review both the plan and the actions once a week or more
to make sure you are doing them and still heading down the road. If you are
finding it hard to keep up it's a sign you need to recalibrate.
So let's go back to our gym example. You want to get fit to improve both your
cricket and have a better body. Success might be able to lift a certain weight or
have a certain level of bodyfat. You know you will need a gym that is on the way
home from work and can provide you with a program for your needs. You join aiming
to go every Monday, Wednesday and Friday after work. You put a reminder to
yourself to pack your gym bag and one to go to the gym. When you get to the gym
you make sure you can just pick up your program and get started. On Sunday night
you check your success. Did you go to the gym 3 times, if not why not? Is your
bodyfat dropping or squat increasing? What do you need to change to keep meeting
your goals? Do you need to recalibrate your plan to fit in with a change in your
needs?
Mikka Bouzu no more

People give up because they don't think their goals through to actual practical
actions.
In the example above you are blindly following an instruction. Tuesday night: pack
bag. Wednesday night: Drive to gym. It's easy and a quick success.
If it becomes difficult you can review and change.
Because you only do this once a week you can forget about the guilt and just get on
with the stuff you really want to do.
You can read more about how to do this by buying Getting Things Done by David
Allen.

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Thu, 27/03/2008 - 13:43
[...] hard? Train when it doesn’t count as well as when it does Are you teaching
yourself to fail? How to avoid becoming Mikka Bouzu How to beat your own laziness
once and for all What a 1 year old can teach you about improving your [...]

by dave (not verified) | Wed, 05/08/2009 - 12:23
I was suppose to be one of the upcoming players in my state, playing junior cricket
with the likes of players who are now contracted state players. Somewhere along
the way I slipped behind the pack and lost my way. I know for a fact that I've got the
ability, as in the nets I can face anyone with relative comfort, and have outstanding
hand-eye co-ordination. I wish i had read examples like this when I was about 16/17.
Now at the age of 20 it is looking very difficult to break into my state squad. But this
kind of guide can allow me to start again, and set my goals again with a clearer
pathway.

by Aleksandar (not verified) | Wed, 05/08/2009 - 17:43
This is a very good article that needs to be clarified even further.
In particular I am intrigued about the part that is talking about willpower, mainly
because willpower and motivation, in my opinion, are intertwined. You need one for
the other and vice versa. But motivation itself also involves a certain amount of
thinking. Does this imply that prolonged thinking will also adversely affect
motivation as the article seems to imply about willpower?
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Can you try too hard?

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Club Pro: We will soon get that out of him!

The only difference is time

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It's all down to a matter of your mental approach.

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what do you exactly mean by 'trying too hard'?

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That's what I think anyway!

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The big mistake

But enough ranting. Did we win that last game?

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I agree Adam. In fact, that's the point I was trying to make.

I don't recommend the approach we took that year

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Are you teaching yourself to fail?

How quickly do you give up the cause on the cricket pitch?

As SquatRX pointed out recently:

Failure breeding failure.

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