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29/03/2007
Rosaneri Get Technical in the Nets
Wednesday night saw a successful but tentative start to some new strategy in the nets. Emails were bouncing back and forth all day between club officials after some new net procedures were tabled by resident net coach Mat Freeman.
The plans, designed to improve realism and incorporate some structure to the sessions, include the following:
Fast and slow net lanes - one lane for the seamers and pace bowlers and the other for spin and medium/slower paced bowling. This will hopefully enable batsmen to face some more consistent bowling and "spells" against certain types of delivery which is more akin to a match situation. Bowlers then swap lanes halfway through the batting session. This should also help the bowlers to develop more consistency.
When numbers are low, rather than using a single net, we will instead adopt a proper indoor wicket with no net and a limited number of fielders including a keeper when appropriate (i.e. against spin). This will obviously provide a much more realistic situation for batsmen and should hopefully improve the bowlers consistency by bowling entire overs as well as improving their confidence by enabling more variation in wicket taking. Perhaps some of those little patted shots wont carry for four afterall! This also has the benefit of saving valuable time preparing and replacing the nets.
Mat will also be bringing his video camera along to sessions so that we can do some video analysis of players technique to highlight any deficiencies and hopefully pinpoint some good aspects too!
There are only a handful of sessions left in the current booking period (although this may be extended) so it's important that we all start maximizing our own personal utilization of each session. The above procedures are obviously dependent on numbers and personnel but we must try and follow them if possible. This week saw a gentle introduction with spells of spin and pace in each lane and I for one certainly found it better from a bowling perspective - I didn't bat myself but I am hoping that benefits were also apparent with the bat.
The first match draws ever closer - bring it on!!
By
Nick Shewring
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