![]() Pitch. Vision. So you want to play professional cricket. Congratulations on setting your goal. Now the work starts. This guide will talk you through the practical and philosophical basics of becoming a professional cricketer. Your location will vary the specifics slightly, but the basic principles still apply wherever you are in the world. India or Sri Lanka is the same as in Australia, England or anywhere else.
Who needs two? Tickets for the 2017 Meijer Chicago Bears Family Fest Aug. 5 at Soldier Field will go on sale at 11 a.m. The event will give fans their first. There are also some helpful links through the article to give you some more reading and advice. So get stuck in and get to the nets. Make the most of your chance. The first thing you need is honesty: Are you really good enough? There is no getting around this one I'm afraid. You need a basic semblance of ability to make it to the top. ![]() While there are many ways to maximise what you have (see below), you need something special too. Be realistic with yourself and your talent and set smaller, more achievable goals at first, even if your big ambition is far away. You don't have to be amazing right now - although it helps if you are - but you do need to think that you might be amazing at some point. If that's true, then what? ![]() Practice all the time. You know the law of 1. It's not hard and fast but the idea that you need to put in a lot of practice is true. The earlier you start the better you can play and practice. There is no substitute. For drills, check out Pitch. Vision Academy online coaching. Be pushy. If you are working hard at your game and producing results you deserve to be noticed. If that isn't happening you can push yourself into the limelight. Ask your coaches what you need to do to get to the next level and keep coming back to them when you have done what they asked. Jut do it in a polite way. Get mentally tough. Cricket can be won and lost in the head probably more than any other game. It's essential to learn the techniques to make your mental toughness and will to win as well developed as your cover drive (or googly). Study and practice this element relentlessly until it is part of your make up. You need to be able to bounce back from failure, win ugly and ride the wave of success in equal measures. That takes time but you will be playing so much you have plenty of games to hone the skills. Find a mentor. A mentor is an uncommon thing in cricket but it can make a big difference to whether you can make it or not. Mentors can not only help you (and how much they help is up to you), they can also argue your case for moving to the next level. NFL.com writer Marc Sessler recently put together a projection of a first-time Pro Bowler for each team. The 49ers have plenty of potential options with all their.![]() Find someone you trust and admire and be confident enough to ask them their opinion. Most people love to talk about themselves so listen to what they say and see what you can learn. However, most importantly, there is one thing all aspiring professional cricketers should do: Subscribe to Pitch. Vision Academy. It's free and packed with advice every week. As you are going to have a lot of weeks before you make it, you have plenty of time to take it all in. Pathways to the top. Every country has a . If you want to become a cricketer, it helps to understand what you need to do to move up through the system. The best way is to ask someone in the know in your local area. Adminstrators will tell you all about it. But to illustrate, here are some pathways in the English system: In the UK, cricket is run by the ECB. There are 1. 8 fully professional county clubs that can take you on. Club cricket. Below the county level there are local leagues. The best of these are called Premier Leagues and clubs are run semi- professionally. As you move lower down the levels, fewer players are paid until it it totally recreational. ![]() Most clubs are affiliated to the ECB and players join the clubs (usually at a junior age). If you are good enough at your junior level your club can put you forward to play at a higher level. This usually means representing your region within the county at ages 1. If you are good at this level you can represent the county at age group level. The best players are mostly playing first eleven club cricket and regular representative cricket by age 1. These are the guys who will look to get into County Academies: The youth scheme all professional counties operate. Once you are in that system you are well on your way. Older players can still make it though. Good performances at senior club level or in the minor counties (non- professional representative cricket) can be rewarded with a county trial well into your twenties. The older you get the less likely this is to happen. That said, there are outlier cases of players making a professional debut even into the late 3. Don't bank on this. The earlier the better. Additionally, there are many clubs who employ players on a short term basis as player coaches or paid professionals. Not many players can make a career of this but there are opportunities for good players not quite good enough to make it at first class level. You generally need to contact clubs directly to be considered and you will need a substantial track record at club level to have a serious chance. School and University cricket. School cricket is less popular than it used to be, but many schools have a fine tradition of cricket and if you attend one of these, such as Millfield, you have access to cricket coaching and personal development that is extremely good for your game. However, most people in England don't get a lot of school cricket and rely on the club game to develop. The good news is that whatver your cricket at school, you could attend a University that has been allocated as an MCCU. Currently these are Cambridge, Oxford, Loughborough, Durham, Leeds/Bradford and Cardiff/Glamorgan). Naturally, you need enough academic ability to get on a course, but once in place you can play a high standard and get spotted for a county through the University competition. It's worth reiterating here that the English system is unique but not so different from other countries. Everywhere with a professional level has some form of club cricket and some level of representative cricket where you are picked based on ability. If you get runs and wickets consistently enough at one level, you can move forward to the next on merit, and that should be your take home point. Becoming an . You will need a work permit and to play county cricket that means having played at International level for your country of birth (although there are some loopholes). More realistically is working in the UK as an overseas player for a recreational club. There are many clubs looking for good overseas players but most go though agencies like Cric. X for them. If you are of professional standard in your own country consider contacting a decent agency as that is the fastest route in. Ther is also the backdoor of University cricket. What next? This article has given yo a lot to digest and you are probably feeling motivated yet overwhelmed. You are thinking, . Cream will rise to the top, whatever the system. To start that domino process, you can do some more research. This article is the perfect place to begin. Then put your name down for the free Pitch. Vision Academy newsletter to stay on top of the latest tips and advice to improve your game. Finally, hit the nets, play some cricket, have some fun and let me know when you make it. I have faith in you. Want to bowl fast and straight? Stay out of the gym, says Brett Lee. Indian cricket currently has its fastest crop of bowlers in recent memory but they might also be the most wayward crop of bowlers in recent memory. The likes of Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron and Mohammed Shami are brilliant one day, appalling the next or simply out injured. It is a mystery that has bedevilled MS Dhoni and convinced him to rely on the cunning of line- and- length operators rather than the battering- ram of genuine pace. For Brett Lee, the former Australia fast bowler, it all comes down to the proper training. Lee took 3. 10 wicket from 7. Tests at an average of 3. File photo of Brett Lee. AP“I have always said that there is no reason why you can’t bowl fast and you can’t bowl the perfect line,” he told Firstpost in Mumbai last week. But if you go at 9. That sounds easy enough but it comes with a catch: “You have to train to get yourself up to bowl 1. Lee was kind enough to provide a list of dos and don’ts that helped make him into one of the quickest bowlers in the world in his prime: 1) Stay out the gym room. No weights. 2) Be a good runner. Work on your flexibility. Work on your lower core strength through sit- ups and push- ups. Have the right momentum and balance at the crease. Staying out the gym is something a number of former fast bowlers, including India’s own Kapil Dev, have said over and over again. It makes intuitive sense but goes against the conventional wisdom in the gym- obsessed times we happen to live in. Lee has a career economy rate of 3. That is almost a full run lower than Umesh, who concedes 4. Aaron is more of a spendthrift, with an economy rate of 4. As a result, even though Umesh’s strike- rate is almost identical to Lee’s at 5. Umesh’s average is eight runs higher than Lee’s at 3. This doesn’t mean Lee never went for runs. All bowlers can be expensive on any given day. You night have a blister on the back of your foot. You might have a toe- nail that is coming off, that is black. You might have a niggle in your back. You might have a sore elbow, a sore shoulder or a sore calf. You’ve got to get through it.“Throughout my whole life I have played and bowled with pain since 1. People think you are you 1. You have to find a way to fight through it.”Lee was in India as the first global brand ambassador for Cochlear, an Australian company that makes devices that can “provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard- of- hearing.” He was promoting the “Sounds of Cricket” campaign that is aimed at spreading awareness about the impact of hearing loss and how implants can help mitigate them.“Imagine watching a game of cricket, and watching your favourite cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, and you can’t hear the crowd, you can’t hear the sound of ball on bat, you can’t hear the sound of people cheering or the players talking,” Lee said.“I would like everyone to walk away and go — me as a parent or an uncle or an teenager — if I know someone who is suffering from hearing loss, or they think might be suffering, to encourage them to see a specialist. The quicker you get the implant in, if that is what you need, then obviously the better off you will be.”.
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