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    Cricket: How to Open the Batting
    Cricket: How to Open the Batting
    Cricket: How to Open the Batting
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    Cricket: How to Open the Batting

    By William Beldham

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    This Cognito Guide is for the young club or school cricketer aspiring to become an opening batsman. It focuses on how to prepare to face the opposition when your team depends on you and all eyes are on you. It discusses strategies for staying in, for getting off the mark and how to progress to build a match-winning innings. Using examples from Test cricket and the author's 30 years experience opening the batting in competitive and "friendly" cricket, this is Cognito Guide helps the aspiring opener to prepare for success when the pressures are greatest.

    The author was introduced to cricket by his father, also a passionate club cricketer, and coached by Peter Wight, the West Indian Test batsman. A left-handed batsman, he played cricket for 30 years both in the competitive leagues of London and the Southwest and throughout that time opening the batting. Although enjoying a great deal of success in that role with 50's and a 100 against his name, his lasting regret is running himself out on 91 with ten overs still to go!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCognito Guides
    Release dateFeb 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301811427
    Cricket: How to Open the Batting

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      Cricket - William Beldham

      COGNITO GUIDES

      Cricket: How to Open the Batting

      Cricket: How to Open the Batting

      Copyright 2012 Cognitasonline Ltd.

      All rights reserved

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      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any other means electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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      Contents

      Foreword

      Your Objective

      Surviving the First Ball and the Rest of the Over

      Getting off the Mark and Scoring your First Run

      Reaching Double Figures and Scoring 50 (One day, maybe, a century)

      Being on the Winning Side

      End notes

      Foreword

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      Opening the batting is a specialised cricket role

      Mental approach to the opener’s role

      Opening the batting is a special skill. At whatever standard you play your cricket your team will be all the stronger for its innings getting off to a good start. For that, the openers must at least play to the best of their technical ability as batsmen. But opening the batting puts additional pressures on the batsmen and is very much a specialised role requiring additional skills and strengths. It is that role to which you aspire. This Cognito Guide is a brief introduction describing how you might approach building those skills and strengths, and how you should approach the task of establishing yourself as one of the first two players in your team to face the opposition’s attack.

      This is not a coaching manual. If you want to be an opener you will very probably be a

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