Time and time again I have appealed to people on this site for help on my cricket skills. And time and time again they have helped me grow as a player. Now i need help on batting. When i bat i keep playing and missing and I cannot gain a place in the top 8. I was a very acclompished batsmen last year but now I cant seem to bat. Does anybody have any tips to help me sort my batting out. Ill be glad to exchange off spin bowling tips aswel.

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Maybe your trying too hard? Getting frustrated and just having a swing. Last season i was a top order batsmen and in the runs, this season i've not scored above 17 and have been concentrating on my bowling - which is going well thankfully.

When your in the nets or at the crease just relax and get your eye in, just have a net session of defensive play, not trying to launch the ball straight back at the bowler, once you get your eye, and confidence, back you can do that. Concentrate on the ball and watch it on to the bat. There's not much more i can suggest without seeing the problem. Hope this helps!

I suppose the obvious advice is practice, practice, practice! That's what I've done this season (then again our lot never get themselves out, and I bat at 7!). Watch the ball onto the bat, and play straight. Defend everything straight and just outside off, the rest you do what you can with. (The Jason Gillespie school of batting! ...but it works!)

Hope that helps.

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Are you saying your batting has worsened in the nets as well as in games?

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YES!!! I have been batting terible in the nets but my batting in the middle is ok. But when my coach comes to watch net sessions I bat terrinle so I only get in at numbers 8 at the earliest. I want to impress him so I can bat at maybe 4 or 5.

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Relax - don't try to hit the ball too hard! that is when I miss it. At the start of an innings just concentrate on getting bat on ball - boundaries are nice but a nudged single is worth more than a swing and a miss.

When I do play and miss I tend to lose confidence in the nets. I get disencouraged that im playing badly and I go downhill from there.

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"Things can only get better..."

That's what I think when I play like that, just plug away and get bat to ball. The more practice you put in, the better your natural game should end up.

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Have you got any practise ideas I can do by myself. I finish my GCSEs on thursday and all I have been doing as self practise is batting with a bat and a golf ball against a rough wall so the ball comes off at dodgy angles. You or anybody else got any other tips?

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Read this page and download the short videos. It will show you how to play the backward and forward defensive shots. You need to perfect these shots so you can hold one end up if you are batting with a top order batsman. The job of a batsman is to defend the good balls and score off the bad balls but a bad ball for a top-order batsman might be considered a good ball to a lower-order batsman due to their relative ability. In otherwords, a lower-order batsman has to defend a lot more balls and wait for a really bad ball like a long hop or half-volley in the slot to score from. I suggest you perfect your defence first and then develop the abilty to work the ball to the on-side for singles so you can rotate the strike. Stay away from playing balls outside the off-stump. Wait until they are coming at you then play straight, either back or forward, occasionally working the ball to the onside. When you can do that you will have a solid game albeit with a limited range, but that range can be gradually expanded. I feel that you shouldn't attempt off-side shots until your onside play is solid.

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