Getting to Grips

Gettingto Grips is a unique publication for cricket coaches andplayers of all ages. It offers skills, drills, and practical solutions tocommon batting problems. Author Toby Radford uses his experience as aninternational batting coach to offer invaluable insight into what makes theworld's best players so successful. He describes the Five Fundamentals ofBatting - the basis of good batting - and uses an innovative mix of images andnotes to clearly describe highly complex batting techniques and movements. Thissecond expanded edition includes new technical analysis of international andcounty batsmen and offers practical guidance for players preparing for, andmanaging, their innings as well as how to cope with any unwanted yet inevitableruns of poor form. For coaches, there is a new and detailed breakdown of how tostructure a one-to-one session with a batsman to quickly improve and maximisetheir potential. Theeffective techniques, skills, and drills are the same Toby uses with theworld's top batsmen in the West Indies, in Bangladesh, and with the ECB, andare all offered here to help take your playing or coaching to the next level.