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a left hander and thus on the boundary at the point where the grandstand and warner stands meet a 12 th man had come round with a bottle of water for him but keener yet to share a word or two with this other young man every time his right arm raised the bottle to his lips archer thought of another word to say and eyes still fixed forward on the state of play he lowered the bottle to his side untouched then he raised it again to his lips only not quite to get there before another word occurred to him and the bottle returned to his side in their thousands those in the grandstand and the warner picking up the restrain of this armography began a rising accompaniment which climaxed in a roar the instant that archer s hand dropped to his side some players intent on the match may have ignored this game or turned to wave and smile not archer still looking forward he played with the crowd accentuating and repeating over and over again the rise and fall the action and even delaying the denouemont as if totally unaware and innocent while the crowd laughed out loud one could sense larwood doing such a thing come on mcc if australian batsmen can react so well today it s time you admitted your prior errors and honoured the great fast bowler of nottinghamshire and england leave a comment filed under heavy roller tagged as england v australia 1932 33 england v australia 2nd test 2019 harold larwood jofra archer leg theory july 4 2017 8 15 am yes chef or all hales and the humidor the squire wished to go to lord s on saturday to watch nottinghamshire play surrey in the old b h mid summer final now thankfully re insured by royal london life insurance pensions investments neatly inscribed on the boundary markers players used to find a twenty pack carton under their peg awaiting them on b h match days now there s a financial adviser sitting there ready to offer independent advice the game has changed third man left the squire with the mccartney s swapping tales of desert island disk selections went down to macca s shed and took the trusty old aluminium ladder to the bottom of the road and shimmied over the wall into the ground before a steward could shout what he made his way to dressing room 6 to see whether any of the old pros were there many of the dressing rooms that once adorned the pavilion s higher echelons have been turned into video analysis rooms and places that offer comfort to fourth umpires and referees but dressing room 6 remains well disguised as a lift marked out of order three or four of the old boys were there and cards were spread on an old coffin from the relatively modern age of the game lord s is famed for its catering less well known is its reputation for fine cigars a supply of which are kept in a jury rigged humidor an adaption of the climatic control machine purchased for the indoor nets and transported to dressing room 6 by pip edmonds in what are called the botham days at 10 50 in walked young hales hail hales we all said any of those cohiba behikes left tm asked the six foot five hillingdonian the squire instructed me to issue you with two titch one for your innings and one for afters surrey s innings took off at a rate of knots notts seemed generally languid and unperturbed dropping a catch or two to demonstrate their confidence a lot of psychology in the game now the lord s outfield was like glass emerald green glass the fielders sauntered the batsmen drove but the truth was that surrey batsmen kept losing their wickets at the most inopportune moments the last time tm had seen surrey play in a lord s cup final was in 1965 when brian close dropped boycott a couple of dextros in his morning horlicks surrey wilted that day seeing you here again does not bode well tm said dear old horse 13 3 51 1 from a corner of dressing room 6 notts and pattinson in particular 34 dots in his 10 overs got a little reverse going as surrey entered the last 10 overs and ground to a halt their final score of 297 was disappointing if only it had been 347 the notts supporters on top of the compton were later to moan fletcher did his impression of a lad up from pit for day but rumour has it he was rescued from a life as a chef at hooters of nottingham he ll be ok in dressing room 6 in the years to come will that fletch as hales skipped down the stairs to the long room on his way to the wicket tm stretched out a hand containing a lighter there you are titch the stewards have strangely become a friendly lot in recent years and not a word was said as the scent of fine habana filled the long room members noses turning towards the sweet smell such a forgiving scent at the wicket hales handed the smouldering cigar to the square leg umpire and took guard few who were there will ever forget the following 200 minutes lord s bathed in divine light the scent of cigar drifting across the ground reaching all parts of the field like the ball off hales grey nick s bat sublime drives powerful pulls to balls shortened by the anxiety of bowlers fearing to give him any length width punished not with an admonishment but with a neatly inscribed note of thanks that the time which this master of the drive has at his disposal allowed him to pen the ash flicked nonchalantly towards the media centre at 50 100 and 150 at one point a bewitched opponent yet england team mate jason roy ran fully twenty yards to offer the palm of his hand rather than to allow that foul ash to sully the batsman s gloved hand the burning glow at each leisured inhalation never once threatening to outshine the batsman s brilliance look at the book if you want the details oh foolish prizer of data for all your counting and calculating you will have missed the essence of a cigar appropriately humidified of batting as leisure in a match that mattered special thanks to michael vaughan who smelt it first leave a comment filed under light roller tagged as alex hales boycott brian close cohiba behikes dressing room 6 notts v surrey june 2017 royal london final 2017 january 16 2017 1 30 pm watching kohli drive here s kohli from yesterday the hands will do what buttler s hands do there s the l shape that produces the lag the hands travel across his body to the ground as the sequence continues and then the ball has reached the point below the hands but there s still plenty of room for the lag to unwind creating tremendous bat speed hands still at the same height as the first image low relative to the ball a shallow angle of attack and here s almost the moment of contact hands in front of the ball still some lag to be unwound and the shallow angle of attack there are many similarities here with a jordan spieth drive 2 comments filed under light roller tagged as india v england odi prune 2017 virat kohli january 16 2017 10 35 am ell of a shot those able to watch the first odi match between india and england played at pune yesterday were able to feast on a diet of 750 runs without the slightest fear of indigestion it was a great spectacle it was also a funny old wicket few batsman managed a decent pull shot which suggested variable pace there were a few dabs and flicks but surely most of the runs came from drives or was it just the stunning nature of these shots especially from kholi and buttler that gave a false impression and this revealed a delightful irony of the modern game with all the new shots that have come into cricket in the last decade reverses ramps and switches it is actually the good old drive that seems to have undergone the greatest transformation people point to the bats and yes they are softly pressed and the willow more evenly dispersed across the blade but they are not unduly heavy or heavier than those used in the 1970s where then comes the increased range of the lofted drive especially and the increased pace at which the ball comes off the blade above is an image of buttler that reveals all ask any american weekend golfer what s going on and they ll tell you but how many cricketers it s the l it s an l of a shot 2 comments filed under light roller tagged as india v england odi pune 2017 jos buttler lag in cricket december 6 2016 6 18 pm cricketing cults and stress fractures for england preparing to take the field in mumbai two down with two to play the six letters that should be uppermost in their consideration s t r e s s or strictly speaking how to avoid being stricken with stress eddie jones recently had some words of wisdom on the subject if you know what you are doing there is no stress in other words disabling stress comes when not knowing what to do forces its way into a sportsperson s consciousness so if you have a plan and crucially if you believe in the plan and have no doubts or feelings of insecurity about the plan that you are being asked to follow or have chosen to adopt you will bat or bowl without stress the trouble comes when you play in two or more minds the should i shouldn t i dilemma of being true to my game true to my understanding of myself and and playing in a way that is ultimately inauthentic alien and pushed on you by outside forces in his blog a sportsman s transition the entry on 2 12 2016 for 1 10 15 alex gidman describes the modern dressing room we have developed a culture in cricket where we sit in a room with a load of coaches who tell us what we have done wrong ok they have stats footage whatever but unless you can figure out why things have gone well or badly yourself then it s irrelevant what the coach says you have to figure it out what changes are needed and why the coaches are there to assist you and help but not to be relied on and in setting the scene chapter 1 of bucking the trend chris rogers describes how the former cricket australia executive marianne roux sat the australians down and said for every negative thought you ve got to tell yourself to have five positive thoughts one can almost hear the internal monologue of the perspicacious roger s no shrinking violet he saying to himself well i can t say that s ever fucking worked for me can one picture an england lion in the full england dressing room reacting to such advice in any other way than with strict compliance yes yes rogers explains his own perspective on such advice oddly enough doubts and insecurities have actually been quite a powerful force driving me as a cricketer some players are able to back themselves in but my own doubts about my ability to pull off certain shots led me to a very pragmatic game where i worked out the most reliable ways of surviving and scoring without taking undue risks you often hear about the use of positive thoughts to generate good results but i m a big believer in finding a way to channel negative thoughts rogers continues you spend so much of your time questioning yourself and competing against others that you need to find a way to use those doubts to block them out successfully means kidding yourself and how long can that last instead i find it best to know and own those doubts and use them to sculpt a technique within my own limitations by thinking my way through it i ve been able to find ways of succeeding where others have not before going for the jugular of the modern meme that is the perhaps greatest force for inauthenticity in modern batting there is perhaps something for others to learn from that in an age where we constantly hear so much batting bravado talk which can lead either to rapid scoring or rapid collapsing tm s italics putting the pursuit of the brand before the authentic expression of personal capabilities is the reason that england has crippled not a nice word but here surely justified so many young batting talents in recent years and it is why in this test series stress has stalked the nets and dressing rooms and thrust itself on to the field of play bringing calamity and dissonance in its wake the england managers have only themselves to blame they have created a cult it has initiation ceremonies rites de passage through which novitiates must pass inside is security and access to magical knowledge and privileges beyond the ken of outsiders there is a priesthood and leaders whose authority must never be challenged they have access to huge wealth and entitlements that can be withdrawn in a moment leaders come and go but the orthodoxy reforms around new leaders there is apparent equality yet power is held by the few novices are taken in at a young age and indoctrinated few if any are recruited later in life there is perfect freedom within provided the orthodoxy is never challenged cults have a way of ending in mass suicides when reality becomes inescapable and the dissonance too great to bear but before then we can change coaches replace captains and welcome a new cap or two leave a comment filed under heavy roller uncategorized tagged as alex gidman chris rogers england cricket team england v india 2016 august 17 2016 2 58 pm has what it takes the importance of leaving well alone the squire and third man first saw the batting of haseeb hameed known as has in the old trafford indoor school when he joined a small squad in the level iii ecb development programme aged 11 or 12 but they had heard of him a couple of years before as a precocious talent who had been selected for the lancashire under 11 side while still two or three years below that age the reports from the under 11s were that accommodating his size he was already a great manager of the ball making its energy work for him he was flexible of wrist he possessed patience and great powers of concentration he valued his wicket highly and his valuation of it was as precise as his shot making he was regularly scoring 50s and batting very long innings in short no one could get him out not much has changed it seems there were long battles in the spin net on that lancashire ecb programme you could see that the young man had respect for those bowling against him not a subservient respect nor an assertive arrogance but the kind of respect that underpins sound judgement of shot selection his defense was secure there were few bad balls on offer and so his virtual runs came from deflections and glides placement trumped power his parents brought him each evening and his father watched carefully from a distance was it from his father that he had learnt those delightful skills because this was mature batting at an early age a miniture masterpiece and importantly for what comes below well before any system had got at him neither the squire nor third man have seen him bat since those days but the results have been plain to read and the tributes from opposing first class captains and their veteran coaches confirm that this batsman is special and steadfastly realising his potential the magnificent feat of a hundred in each innings of the just completed roses match has been met with a call from michael vaughan that he should be included in the full england touring party this winter as the spare opener this news coincides with a severe critique of 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