Glamorgan and Durham to tour Zimbabwe

[Donald]

I was facing a swing bowler last week for a club. I started to bat out of my crease as the wicket keeper wasnt up to stumps. Turned his swingers into half volleys.
Now im not a great bat but its things like this you need to do.
Raza has got it. That pre meditated step to leg then across to blast a straight ball and turn it into a cover drivable ball.

[Googly]

The next round will be interesting. Will the losing margin be more or less? Who will learn faster, the county guys or our lads? Unfortunately my money is on their bowlers getting even more on top of our batters and their batters being more comfortable going harder at our bowlers.

[Googly]

I was facing a swing bowler last week for a club. I started to bat out of my crease as the wicket keeper wasnt up to stumps. Turned his swingers into half volleys.
Now im not a great bat but its things like this you need to do.
Raza has got it. That pre meditated step to leg then across to blast a straight ball and turn it into a cover drivable ball.

Ya not as simple at this level. The bowlers see you coming and adjust unless you're really sharp. Clearing to leg or off is an obvious thing and actually walking at a seamer (unless he's bowling 90 ). You need to get in first before getting a bit fancy, or be at the death or just have run out of ideas . You need real skills before you embark on this or they will make you look like a muppet in double quick time.

Ya I said earlier that I thought Cephas would rein it in and wait for the bad ball and risk getting bogged down. He wants to do well and doesn't want to risk pinch hitting at good deliveries. You can do that if you've got 8 good batters behind you, but not in these line-ups. He goes hard at the pitchef up stuff and the shorter stuff. He won't get them from these guys. He had to wait for the spinner.

[Donald]

Im glad they played Musikewa in this match. He needs a long run of A and county games. He can sure hit a ball

Blessed muzite is another one who can clear a boundary'. He needs looking at

[secretzimbo]

I was facing a swing bowler last week for a club. I started to bat out of my crease as the wicket keeper wasnt up to stumps. Turned his swingers into half volleys.
Now im not a great bat but its things like this you need to do.
Raza has got it. That pre meditated step to leg then across to blast a straight ball and turn it into a cover drivable ball.

Which country do you play in, out of interest? Not all swinging conditions are equal! It can really hoop in Zim early on on certain days, especially as winter approaches.

[secretzimbo]

Madhevere is the worry for me. How does a guy of his ability keep failing? As a coach you really have someone with the necessary ability to do well at this level. He shows us now and then what he can do, but then the long periods of nothing. My point is if you can't sharpen him up then what chance do you have with guys who don't have his natural skills? One of the overseas guys actually said that if Madhevere was in County he'd be top of the pile by now. I'm not sure what he meant by that? Did he mean the higher standard of cricket is essential to improve or that the coaching or the system is the hurdle? Perhaps a combination of the above?
I don't think anyone doubts DH's credentials as a coach.

Highly concerning. He looks to have actually gone backwards, and not just in terms of confidence or form, but actual technique.

He's literally a better bowler than he is a batsman right now.

[TapsC2]

I guess these are the platforms where its ok to fail as long as you pick yourself up and learn for the next game.

I think besides the training, batting with other senior players is important as they talk you through a lot of things. It's also important that Wes keeps believing and works himself out of this. Hard work can do it. He is highly rated by so many. Maybe use some of that money to get some private coaching lessons?

I also firmly believe if he was still in the SA system for example he would be much better than he is. Myers was the only person close to him(maybe even better than him) when it came to natural talent from that group so I'm not surprised the other guys are way behind in terms of development.

[Googly]

Self help that costs money? That would be a light bulb moment.

[CalZim]

Falao smashed around for 27 runs in his first over

Looking forward to another thrashing. Glad the stream is broken, bet they have done it on purpose

[Donald]

This is a harrowing experience against Durham

At least playing Glamorgan we were Semi Competitive