Practice : Wednesday July 11

Practice : Wednesday July 11.

We got to city park and realized that we definitely need the permit to play there. We told the guys practicing there that we have a permit and worked out a solution. We planned practice on the center pitch while they used the side pitch.

Attendees : Chetan, Jay, Rishabh, Tilak, Tanmay, Sahel and Prateek

Fielding :
The guys generally looked comfortable with catching. We did short, mid range , long and slip catches. Slip catches were disappointing.
Tilak needs some work on the slip catches. He has been away for a bit and needs to refocus his reflexes.
I beleive we have resolved Chetan's catching problem. He was not looking the ball into his hands. As soon as he started doing that, he became a lot more consistent.
Jay looked atheletic and has the ability to pull off some good catches, consistency still needs to be worked on. He also looked rather comfortable behind the stumps. He needs work in that area, but it was a good start from him.
Prateek dropped acouple very easy long ones, but was consistent otherwise.

Bowling :
Rishabh was rather inconsistent, but still produced some good deliveries to beat Tanmay and Chetan.
Sahel was getting the ball to move well, he seems to be improving consistently.
Tanmay ran in from a short run up and bowled slower, but was able to get a good amount of movement in the air.
Chetan was a little more consistent than earlier, but stiull not up to his potential.
Tilak did not bowl.
Prateek had the same problem as earlier, messing up when trying to do anything but the ordinary. The flight looks good though.

Batting
Tanmay was trying to get under the ball and thus getting beaten repeatedly. Once he tried to come down on the ball he got much better. There is scope and talent for improvement with the bat.
Tilak was playing backfoot strokes well, but his front foot strokes were not coming off. We talked about it and realised that he is playing the ball a little too late to be forcing it off the frontfoot. He tried playing it earlier and it looked much better.
Chetan was batting well, except that he was not using his feet. He was not coming forward to the deliveries he should, and playing a stand and deliver game. He realizes it and will be working on that.
Prateek had a decent day. The ball was finding the middle of the bat most of the time and running away pretty quickly. I did air a few as the pitch was pretty slow, but thats how some pitches are, so I need to work on that.

All in all, pretty exhaustive session. Everyone, except Sahel and Tanmay who came late, was pretty tired by the end. Also, we definitely need to get our hands on that permit.