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Creating New Pontings: Coaching Inner Drive

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Last week I introduced the 4 elements that define mental

toughness. Today we move on to understanding and
developing "Inner Drive".
Players scoring high on inner drive are completely self-motivated individuals in any given
situation.
They are on a personal mission to do everything possible to fulfil their potential and find out
just how good they can be. They will go the extra mile to ensure they have left no stone
unturned in their pursuit of personal excellence. These players always strive to compete with
their own taxing standards, as well as with other players and opponents.
Inner drive players will always look to learn from every situation. From a coach's perspective,
inner drive players require no cajoling, no motivating and in terms of commitment to the cause,
they will be leaders by example.
Ricky Ponting
Australia's ex-captain and legendary batter, Ricky Ponting, epitomised inner drive in everything
he did. He was the definition of "leave no stone unturned" in his pursuit of his goals.
When I worked with Ricky at Somerset in 2004 he talked to me about his daily checklist of 10
questions that he would ask himself each night before playing a game of cricket. The points
were very simple, very clear and included the following:
• Having an appreciation of the pitch type that he was about to play on (conditions)
• Knowledge of the opposition bowlers
• Am I mentally ready to bat?
• Has my technical preparation gone well?
If there was an unticked checklist point then it focused his mind the following morning. He
would work on that particular point ahead of the days play. No Stone unturned.
The All Blacks

James Kerr's brilliant book, Legacy is all about the foundations that underpins the performance
of professional sport's most successful team. In it he writes about the All Blacks sweeping the
changing rooms, tidying up after themselves after each session and each match.
The All Blacks, despite being World Champions, have the inner drive and humility to
undertake the most menial tasks.
"Sweeping the sheds. Doing it Properly. So no one else has to. Because no one
looks after the All Blacks. The All Blacks look after themselves" James Kerr –
Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership
This example of Inner Drive is one piece in the jigsaw that sees the All Blacks consistently pull
out match winning performances in the dying minutes of matches.
The All Blacks win 86% of their matches.

Develop responsibility in others to fast track inner drive
The examples above show how the individual or the culture can develop their own inner drive.
We as coaches and team mates help accelerate this process.
1. Encourage players to have performance diaries to log their successes and analyse their
failures so that they learn for the next similar opportunity that comes along.
2. Encourage players to "sweep the changing rooms, net area, gym" and be respectful of
your environment and the people around you.
3. Create leadership opportunities for many. Not just the captain
o Ask someone different to lead a warm up, review a practice session, design a
different fielding drill, shine the ball, run a gym session
o The experience will help the player to see the link between responsibility and
inner drive. It will help them to see how being deeply involved in a “no stone
unturned” approach can develop performance for an individual and a team.
4. Measure performance: Beat your personal best, beat your team mate, beat the
opposition.
As a coach or captain, we have a wonderful opportunity to develop mental toughness in the

people around us. It's a skill that is more transferable into other facets of life than a straight
drive or leg cutter, so it's got to be worth developing.
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by amesh23 (not verified) | Sun, 30/11/2014 - 02:59
These players always strive to compete with their own taxing standards, as well as with other
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If you have a list, simply Help link between responsibility and internal drives players to see.
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The secret of cricket goal setting

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Research has shown that setting yourself effective cricket goals can lead to an improvement of
up to 78% in your game.
It's also one of the simplest techniques to employ in your efforts to becoming a better cricketer.
All you need is a pen, paper and 10 minutes or so.
Goal Setting for Club Cricketers

Once you have a few minutes to yourself, take the following steps:
• Write it down. Note everything that would like to achieve in cricket. It might be a
season or for a certain part of it. It can be long term too, but don't write any goal that
would take longer than a year to achieve. You can be as vague as you like here, but be
realistic too. A goal of "Take loads of wickets" is fine, but "Play for England" might be
a stretch.
• Avoid performance goals. It's OK to try and score 600 runs in a season but you may
not achieve it due to external factors. Try and make your goals more controllable. For
example, gain more confidence, better concentration or bowling with more accuracy.
• Get specific. Underneath each goal, write down a bit more detail about it. Here you
need to decide on how you will measure the goal and what specifically you will do to
get to it. For example, if you wanted to bowl with great accuracy you may set yourself
the target of going to the nets for 3 hours a week to practice bowling at the stumps and
you would measure success by how many hours a week you actually bowled.
• Break it down. Break down the goals as far as possible. Some goals can be broken
down monthly or weekly, some need a daily target. If you wanted to be more mobile in
the field you may want to do dynamic flexibility work every day for example.
• Review it often. Once you have all these specific, measurable and realistic goals keep
them safe. Review them as often as needed (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly,
whatever). If the goals are not as specific, realistic or challenging as they first seemed it
is vital to adjust them to fit.
The most vital factor in goal setting is not the goals themselves, but the need to review them as
often as possible. That way you can make sure they are realistic and keep moving towards
them. Goals are your map to greater cricket performance. Don't miss out on such an easy way
to improve.
Thanks to Roger Barnes emailing me a question about goal setting that I turned into this post.
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Turn your cricket dreams into reality

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Do you have a cricket dream? Perhaps it is to play internationally or maybe its just to get more
runs than last year in you club side.
One of the most effective ways of improving your motivation and focussing the mind on any
task is by goal setting.
Cricket is no different. Goal setting is a powerful tool to becoming a better player.

It helped Richard Hadlee achieve the incredible double feat of 1179 runs and 117 wickets in
county cricket in 1984.
While you may or may not have the talent of Hadlee, you can still use his techniques to
improve your cricket skills, fitness and mental approach.
How to make goal setting work for you

Goal setting is a simple process but needs to be individual. You cant rely on other peoples
goals so you must set your own. Ideally this is done between a cricketer and coach. There is a
method making your goal setting work properly. To do this, all goals must meet certain criteria.
Without these, your performance will not improve.
• Specific - All goals must have a specific target to aim at. A long term specific goal may be
to get into the first team or score 800 runs in a season. A shorter term specific goal may be
to get a certain number of runs in a game.
• Challenging - A goal cannot be too easy or difficult or you will soon lose interest. A good
goal is something that can be achieved, but is difficult enough to motivate. It is a good idea
to get someone else to help you set challenging goals as you can often under- or
overestimate your own cricket ability.
• Measurable - To monitor your progress a target must measured regularly. You could set
your target at a certain average, and you keep track throughout the season, constantly
working out what figures you need to keep that average within target. Measurable goals
can also be subjective. For example, improvement of bowling action bycoaches analysis.
• Self Controlled - Keep goals individual to you. Your goals should be achieved by you and
not depend on anyone else for success. If you have to depend on others you may lose
motivation if you think they are not pulling their weight.
• Time Related - Make sure your goal has an end point, or at least a review point where
performance can be evaluated and the goal can be re-set if needed. Without this you may
lose focus and energy.
• Flexible - No target should be set in stone. You may progress faster than you planned, or
an injury may set you back. You should be prepared to alter your goals to keep them
specific, challenging and realistic to you.
6 Steps to setting your cricket goals

Once you know the basic rules of setting goals you can go about setting your own. Here is how:
6. Assessment - Begin by building a profile of you as a player. Identify the areas you are
strong at and the areas you would like to improve. This should include not only your
technical skills (like off break or cover drive) but also physical fitness and mental
approach.
7. Set a long term goal - Next you should work out an individual goal to work towards in
the long term (like getting into the first team). This may be over a season or several
seasons.
8. Assess again - Once you have set your long term goal you should refer back to your
assessment. Use it to create a second profile about someone who has achieved your
goal. This is where you are aiming to get.
9. Set your subgoals - Compare your profiles and identify the differences. You can easily
see which areas need the most work and set a series of smaller goals under you long
term goal. Note them all down.
10. Set your training - You can now base your training plan around these goals.
11. Monitor - You should constantly monitor the progress of all these goals. Write
down your goal and subgoals and review them as often as you can, noting your progress
in each area. This way you can scale down training in areas you are progressing fast or
step up training in areas that are not working as well as planned.

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by dhruv (not verified) | Sat, 07/03/2009 - 08:13
You have often mentioned you should set goals which you are likely to achieve as if you fail,
you will give up. However, I find that if I fail at my goals, it only motivates me to try harder
next time.In this scenario, I dont have to limit my goals in any way, right?
by David Hinchliffe | Sun, 08/03/2009 - 07:14
Yes and no Dhruv. Your goals should be a challenge and you should have a chance you will
fail at them (otherwise you will be bored), but they should also be realistic. There is no point in
setting a goal of taking 5,000 Test wickets in your career as it's impossible even if you were the
greatest player of all time. REPEATED failure will always eventually lead to you giving up,
but the odd failure, as you say, can be revitalising. Great point Dhruv.
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Reduce opponent’s confidence like Steve Waugh

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Steve Waugh was the master of 'mental disintegration': the process of wearing down a team's
confidence until he is paralysed by self doubt.
It's a powerful, often aggressive weapon that won't make you many friends if you use it as a
bowler or captain, but you can still use a version of the technique that can be just as effective as
Waugh used and still be able to have a drink in the bar with the opposition batsman afterwards.
As you know, if you begin to doubt yourself as a batsman you can either get yourself out or
become stuck batting too defensively.
Why leave the batsman to build up this doubt himself?
The trick is not to be too aggressive. Instead wait until the batsman does something that is not
quite perfect like a shot in the air or a play and miss, then make a comment loud enough to be
heard but not directed at him.
You could note how all his shots are aerial, comment on how you were surprised he got beaten
on such a slow track or note how the run rate is particularly slow on a good batting day.
All you need to do is say enough to get the batsman to believe the hype, start analysing his
technique or approach and put him off to make a mistake.
While you always need to back up a mental approach like this with good bowling, reducing a
batters confidence will get you several wickets a season.

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How to be relaxed and confident at the crease

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Imagine having a button you can press on the cricket pitch that shuts your stress down, while
leaving you in full control.
In fact, you can have one of these buttons.
It's called an 'anchor' and the idea is based entirely on the most famous successful
psychological experiment in history.
Pavlov's Dog
Anton Petrovich Pavlov won a Nobel Prize in 1904. He is remembered for his experiment
showing that if a bell is rung whenever food is shown to a dog, in due course the dog will begin
to salivate when the bell is rung without the food being present.
Later it was realised that the principle involved was simple enough to be translated into a tool
for self assistance. In short, it is possible to train yourself to relax immediately in any situation:
Including in the middle.
The method is straightforward and suitable for use on your own. With practice, the same
method can be used to place any emotional response at your fingertips - a feeling of confidence
under pressure, for instance.
7 Steps to cricket confidence and relaxation

• Plan. Choose a unique physical gesture that you can perform anywhere (e.g. touching
two fingers together and a word or phrase to repeat to yourself in your thoughts when
triggering the anchor. Any word will do so long as you don't use it in other contexts all
the time. Make your choices carefully, but don't agonise over them - they're completely
private to you, after all.
• Prepare. Next you need to remember a relaxing experience in your past. Think of a
time you remember to have been full of peace, tranquility, carefree feelings and
lightness of heart. If you can't remember one, imagine what might have been one, had
you undergone it. My relaxing experience is sitting down leaning against the scorebox
at my old cricket club on a warm breezy summers day after a good net. When you have
come up with your relaxing experience, think of what might have made it even more
relaxing. Don't worry if the additional factors bear no resemblance to reality. I imagined
that my loved ones and I were immortal and impervious to bad luck, illness and injury.
All of this incorporated into the initial experience heightened the relaxation response I
felt in mind and body considerably. Unlike me, you don't have to tell anyone what you
are adding to your experience, so it won't matter what anyone else thinks about it.
• Experience. Now that you have enhanced your relaxation experience, step into it in
your mind and live through it. Pay attention to the progress of your feelings and
emotions. You will find that you start to feel more and more relaxed, until you reach a
peak of relaxation. Then the experience reaches a plateau, and after a while it begins to
fade a little. As soon as this happens, come back to the present moment, and return to a
neutral emotional state.
• Repeat. Do this two or three times, until you are confident that you know when the
experience is about to peak. You may wish to experiment with changing elements in the
experience to make it even more relaxing. Once you are sure of the moment just before
the peak, you are ready to create the anchor.
• Anchor. You have your unique gesture and your unique phrase. Go into your relaxing
experience once more, and just before the experience reaches its peak, make your
gesture and say your phrase. Then allow the experience to peak before coming out of it.
• Repeat Again. Repeat this process at least ten times, taking care to make the gesture
and say the phrase just before the peak of the experience.
• Test. Now without assuming any particular attitude, make your gesture and say your
phrase. What happens?
If the anchor has been correctly installed, you should feel yourself entering into a more relaxed
state. Your new state will be more relaxed than your previous state, but if your previous state
was one of extreme terror, say, you will still end up feeling less relaxed than if you fired your
anchor when merely mildly stressed.
Your anchor will improve with use. Your brain will become accustomed to causing relaxation
on the cricket pitch, more and more, with practice.
This post on the proven confidence boosting technique was developed thanks to an email from
sport psychologist James Hamilton. James kindly sent me an old article of his and allowed me
to rework it to make it more cricket specific.

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by The worldâ€™s biggest guide to timing the cricket ball : Pla (not verified) | Wed,
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by Ty (not verified) | Thu, 17/01/2008 - 11:23
Another great article.
I will definately put this into practice at winter nets in preparation for next season, I always try
and be as relaxed as possible at the crease but sometimes I can't get into a relaxed state, and my
emotions take over.
I hope I can improve this with a trigger to get into a relaxed state.

by David Hinchliffe (not verified) | Thu, 17/01/2008 - 14:16
Have you tried anything like this before Ty?

Yeah, I practice self-hypnosis and find it helps alot.
I usually open the batting, so I set aside about 5-10 minutes before I have to go out to spend by
myself to relax and get into deep state through self hypnosis and to then think/speak positive
phrases to myself such as "Be confident", "This is YOUR day to shine" etc. And when the time
comes to go out, I'm relaxed and full of confidence, and things usually go my way.
by David Hinchliffe (not verified) | Thu, 17/01/2008 - 21:04
Nice I have never tried that. Do you find negative thoughts creeping in or can you dismiss
them?

When I first started practicing self hypnosis, it took about half an hour to reach the state
because I was trying to fight away negative thoughts and just couldn't clear my mind, but with
practice, this got easier.

by matt (not verified) | Sat, 01/08/2009 - 07:47
when i go to the crease do i need to get forward and across my stumps, hit the ball with
conviction to show the bowlers im confident and im "on top"

by jjeffries (not verified) | Tue, 16/11/2010 - 00:12
Anchoring is all about learning to ground myself which isn't always easy. Yes, the test for me
produced an increase in vibration rate allowing for more relaxation. Yet, it's deinitely
something I'll need to continually work at before it feels "normal." Thanks for the tips.

by seymour (not verified) | Fri, 18/11/2011 - 11:22
I reckon you guys don't need to think so deeply, don't bother with hypnosis. Just know why you
play!

by David Hinchliffe | Fri, 18/11/2011 - 12:26
What do you mean seymour?
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Cricket confidence can feel like a bank account

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"Confidence can feel like a bank account sometimes and after making some solid
investments today, I know that the skills will be there when a withdrawal is made
under the pressure of a big match."
Jeremy Snape
I love this analogy for building confidence on the cricket pitch.

For me it says the real secret on self confidence is just as much about how you prepare as how
you play. You could wait for your worth on the pitch to get a top up through a good
performance, or you could act decisively to improve your bank balance.
If you can put in a lot of credit before big games, your confidence won't go into the red when
you are under pressure.
Deposits could look like:
• Training regularly with intensity

• Improving your fitness
• Learning to deal with mistakes
• Eating well
• Positive self talk
These might seem like small deposits at the time. After all what difference will one training
session, cheese toastie or mistake make?
However, in the long run you will build up a reserve of confidence. We all have fragile
confidence accounts waiting to be decimated and crash our performance.
Defend yourself against going overdrawn with a daily deposit.

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by Cricket mental training and psychology: The complete guide f (not verified) | Thu,
27/03/2008 - 13:44
[...] How to be relaxed and confident at the crease Do you have mental toughness? How to
reduce nerves Confidence feels like a bank account How to be as fearless as a 5 year [...]

by Why you need self belief to succeed in cricket : Cricket coa (not verified) | Thu,
17/04/2008 - 10:29
[...] matches. Your body knows what to do and it is poised ready to do it. Like a bank account
you are drawing on the deposits of belief you have been making in [...]

by Get out of your form slump, even when you don’t have class : (not verified) | Wed,
21/05/2008 - 13:44
[...] deliberate practice. Practice makes you better so is important at all times. As Jeremy Snape
says, every good practice session is an investment in your form. Use practice to groove your
muscle [...]

by An introduction to playing better cricket : Cricket coaching (not verified) | Wed,
11/06/2008 - 11:40
[...] some magic psychological trick. Just the application of well directed work (what Jeremy
Snape calls deposits in the bank of confidence), blocking out of errors, listening to the tension
in your body and visualising [...]

by hafis (not verified) | Tue, 14/12/2010 - 08:15
the cricket is based on that what u did......in ur practice session....be always confident

by shivakumar (not verified) | Fri, 07/03/2014 - 06:15
Sir,
My name is Shivakumar. I am 23 years old. I am an off spinner bowler and a handy batsman. I
still not got to play cricket. Atleast I want to play for club. I played for my college and took 3
for 19 for 4 overs but we lost the match. THis is the only chance which I got to play. I want to
prove my abilities. I don't know how to join th division team.

by Henry (not verified) | Mon, 30/06/2014 - 11:08
I liked the way you conveyed the point. Yeah, confidence is one important thing a player
should have to deliver all of the skills and the talents he has got, in the ground. And, i dont
think that anyone else could explain it as simple as Mr Jeremy has said here. Good job, man.
more information

by rdokoye (not verified) | Tue, 19/08/2014 - 12:23
I haven't played cricket for a long time, but I need to start something for fitness purposes,
working in an office can do that for you. Anyway, I'll look into it as a viable option.
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