Our next "Ten Percent" focus is on fielding. If just three players turn a 4 into a 1 through a really good stop in a game, you are 9 runs better off from just three short pieces of cricket. With an over-emphasis on net practice, fielding often gets missed out and doesn't get the focus it deserves. The best fielding teams are most often the winning teams! There are perhaps two big challenges for young fielders: - 1. Concentrating fully every ball 2. Not being scared of the bal

Sky Sports have released their Masterclasses series. The Batting classes are below: - Opening Batsman Masterclass – Strauss and Atherton Virat Kohli Analysis – Don’t just watch the shots, listen to the experts analysis! Playing Spin – Mahela Jayawardene The Sweep Shot Masterclass Kevin Pietersen Masterclass Playing Spin - Kevin Pietersen #cricket #tenpercenters #batting #homecricket #backyardcricket

Sky Sports have released their Masterclasses series. The Fast Bowling classes are below: - Fast Bowling Masterclass – James Anderson Left arm swing – Wasim Akram T20 Bowling – Dirk Nannes Mitchell Johnson Masterclass The Art of Reverse Swing #cricket #tenpercenters #fastbowling #homecricket #backyardcricket

Our third "Ten Percent" focus is on bowlers reducing their economy rates. The average bowler economy rate in one of our local junior leagues last season, for all bowlers who bowled, was 5.7 runs per over. That's a score of 114 in a T20 game, excluding byes & leg byes - so probably 120 or so would be an average score in these (non-pairs) matches. If we can reduce the economy rates of all our bowlers by just 10%, down to an average of just over 5.1 runs per over, that reduces t

Our second "Ten Percent" focus is on running between the wickets. This is one of the easiest areas to improve quickly for most players. Here we're going to focus on the actual running bit. Later today I am going to post a way to practice judging runs from home. There are some key skills to running between the wickets: - 1. Run the first run as hard/quickly as possible 2. Support the bottom of the bat in your other hand and use it to pump your arms 3. Don't ball watch! 4. Run

Improving your cricket can be daunting sometimes. If you look at your game as a whole, there are so many different elements that it's often hard to work out where to begin. This is where the "Ten Percent" rule comes in handy and, while we're all at home, there is an opportunity to practice some elements of our game to make us better. If you break your cricket down into chunks and focus on improving each by 10%, the sum of the parts will see a noticeable development of your ga