Why you don’t like warming up
Cricket is like football when it comes to training.
So it's no wonder that your attitude to practice and warming up is still:
"Training - learning - developing - aren't fun, and isn't [sport] meant to be fun?"
Why isn't cricket be as much fun in the nets or the gym as it is on the field itself?
I would argue that it is.
With training, especially fitness and mental, the challenge is to improve yourself against yourself rather than the opposition, but that's no less fun. Not to me anyway.
Plus it's even more fun when you are winning because you have prepared well. And we all know how a good warm up can prepare your body to perform at it's best.
I'm interested to know how attitudes vary across the country and across the world of cricket. Leave a comment or email me and let me know how the players in your club prepare?
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As an opening bowler, my warm up starts in the morning before I leave for the ground, and then continues for at least half an hour before going out to bowl - stretching and bowling in the outfield (hence I like the skippers to toss up early!!) Having just had shoulder surgery to repair torn tendons and mitigate against early arthritis, I'm even sure if I'l be able to bowl again, but if things are positive I suspect my regime will stay the same.
Within the club I play for, there's a pretty laid back attitude to the whole 'warm up' ethos - there's the occasional batsman who wants a quick net, and some bowlers will bowl a ball at each other in a desultory fashion.
Funnily enough, mid-week nets are generally well attended.
It's a similar story at the clubs I have played for. Perhaps 1 or 2 who warm up well and the rest looking on like you are some kind of crazy fitness freak. I'm convinced a side who come out and warm up together with some sharp looking drills and a few cones out would put the fear of God into the opposition.