Getting to Grips

A Unique Breakdown of Batting in Cricket for Coaches and Players, Second Expanded Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-17
Mått136 x 205 x 5 mm
Vikt266 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagMeyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd
ISBN9781782552840

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Toby Radfordis widely regarded as one of the best batting coaches in the game. Toby washead coach when Middlesex was crowned English T20 Champions in 2008, andbatting coach when the West Indies won the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2012.Following a successful spell as an England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) nationalcoach, Toby launched the MiddlesexCricket Academy,which produced England Test stars Steven Finn, Eoin Morgan, and Dawid Malan. In2010 Toby set up the West Indies High Performance Centre in Barbados, fromwhere seven of his impressive students graduated to the senior Test team, ledby the towering Jason Holder, who went on to become world number oneall-rounder.Following ten enjoyable years of coachingin the Caribbean and working with greats ofthe game, such as Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, and Marlon Samuels, Tobywas recently head of performance for Bangladesh Cricket (BCB) and a battingconsultant for Pakistan Cricket (PCB).Passionate about developing the coaches ofthe future, Toby has written and delivered several batting modules for theECB's advanced coaching program and also mentors several coaches for the game'sgoverning body. Toby is currently batting coach for KentCounty Cricket Club.

'High Net Value. It reallyshould be an asset to anyone looking to improve their knowledge of the art ofbatting.' - George Dobell, Editor, The Cricketer Magazine, June 2025'Toby Radford's Getting to Grips isa wonderful batting aid for all standards of batters: from juniors or club players to top-level players who needto check their batting fundamentals. Toby's passion for batting technique is well-known throughout the game and here he combines his technical knowledge with easy-to-follow illustrations of how the best players strive to perfect the basics. Stick it in your kit bag, the perfect coaching aid!' Dave Fulton, Sky Sports Presenter and former Kent Captain'Toby has played an important role in mydevelopment as a cricketer. He offers excellent technical advice and instilledin me a strong work ethic.' -Dawid Malan, England and YorkshireCCC'Toby is very strong at analysing faultsand quick to come up with solutions for putting them right. We have anexcellent working relationship and he has helped my game enormously.' -JasonHolder, West Indies'I very much enjoy working with Toby and hehas helped me improve my game massively. In this sport of fine margins, hisattention to detail really stands out. He has given me a good understanding ofmy game and how to bat at my best. With so much knowledge and experience fromworking with top batters around the world, it's not hard to see why he's one ofthe best batting coaches around.' -DanielBell-Drummond, KentCCC'I worked with Toby when I joined Middlesexand he really helped me progress to the next level. He helped mould the basicsof my technical game.' -Eoin Morgan,England WorldCup Winning Captain'Toby is alegend. He is a very knowledgeable and informative coach and has helped me alot technically.'-Kraigg Brathwaite, West IndiesTest Match Captain