playing indoor cricket in the off season??

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playing indoor cricket in the off season??

my opinon of how playing indoor cricket in the off season can improve your game dramaticly.
batting, will help develop your front foot strokes, batting defense, will improve your footwork, it will also help with improvised shots which will come in handy if you need quick runs in an outdoor game, will help you think about scoring off good balls, also every now and then you"ll feel presure when you bat, it could be the bowlers on a hattrick, you need quick runs ect, its not recomended you play many backfoot strokes in indoor cricket (its to easy to get runout and you get poor value for shots) but at the very least it will str8en your game up.
bowling, at the very least it will keep your arm turning over in the off season, it will help your defensive bowling skills as well as most indoor batsen are super aggressive, and the same pressures as batting will apply.
fielding, indoor cricket will improve your fielding skills a lot, whether it be reflex catches, throwing the stumps down, decision making in runouts, flick throws ect.
wicket keeping, any outdoor wicket keeper would benifet from indoor keeping, it will improve your keeping in every area.

there are a few cons to playing indoor as well but the pros outweigh them in my opinon, i wouldnt play indoor during the outdoor season but if your a junior or a young senior player who wants to improve, indoor cricket is a very nice option, in my opinion.:)
 
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distributer of pain;330204 said:
my opinon of how playing indoor cricket in the off season can improve your game dramaticly.
batting, will help develop your front foot strokes, will improve your footwork, it will also help with improvised shots which will come in handy if you need quick runs in an outdoor game, its not recomended you play many backfoot strokes in indoor cricket (its to easy to get runout and you get poor value for shots) but at the very least it will str8en your game up.
bowling, at the very least it will keep your arm turning over in the off season, it will help your defensive bowling skills as well as most indoor batsen are super aggressive.
fielding, indoor cricket will improve your fielding skills a lot, whether it be reflex catches, throwing the stumps down, decision making in runouts, flick throws ect.
wicket keeping, any outdoor wicket keeper would benifet from indoor keeping, it will improve your keeping in every area.
there are a few cons as well but the pros outweigh them in my opinon, i wouldnt play indoor during the outdoor season but if your a junior or a young senior player who wants to improve, indoor cricket is a very nice option, in my opinion.:)
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Well im convinced, trouble is getting a team together. Good points you made DoP@|
 
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$17AU now, pretty expensive, plus you have to have pretty close matching uniforms if I recall correctly.
 
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bowlers also appear quicker in indoor cricket as well (because of the lights), so when you go back to outdoor, hopefully the quicker bowlers wont seam as quick, if that makes any sense
 
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breeno;330220 said:
$17AU now, pretty expensive, plus you have to have pretty close matching uniforms if I recall correctly.
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$17 whaaaaat, thats a joke. you needed the same colour shirts when i played, or else you had runs deducted.
 
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you can play super league, its just like outdoor as in you have to train to get a game, i filled in once and its very competitive, as in high 5s allround after a wicket and such (a bit embarrising really) and the standard wasnt great to say the least. different rules apply as well (or they used to) 8 ball overs, wides are rebowled upon batsmens request every over (normal indoor only the last over of every pair get wides rebowled) and it may be 2 innings but im not sure on that. it may be cheaper as well, but you"ll have to travell.
 
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Interesting posts,

For what its worth we entered two teams in a league this year in our off season. The cost for us is £24 per team per game, so we charged £5 per head per player per game.

As a wicket keeper it is a great benefit to your game, it helps improve reactions and footwork. It is hard work as a keeper as you tend to stand up for everything!

Pace does not work very well indoors. The most effective bowlers were medium slow and accurate, bowling on middle and off just short of a length.

i would disagree about back foot shots, if the oppo use pace bowlers then back foot shots are easy runs, cut to the corners hit the wall for 1 shot and run for two so 3 runs from a nothing shot.

Batting is easier as you know the pitch is going to stay true and not play up.

as for rules, here in the UK it was 6 ball overs with 2 runs for a wide or no ball, wides only rebowled in last over off the game. anything leg side was a wide. virtually no LBW's

over all its very good fun, and if anything i picked up alot form it.

mainly running between wickets, it shows where you should be running singles easily, and also fitness. Its very fast paced.
 
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yeah with the back foot shots, i just meant because your on the backfoot (and its virtauly tip and run) its much easier to get run out than if your on front foot, im not very fast lol.
 
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yea i'm not quick and i think everyone of my dismissals was a run out!
 
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Having played indoor cricket and outdoor cricket for 15 years I can say that indoor will only marginally benefit your outdoor game. Whilst both games resolve around cricket, I can honestly say that indoor is a completely different game, simply because their are a lot of different tactics employed.

In terms of batting, smart indoor players will use the side nets to score runs and will do so using a variety of chop shots rather than using drives, cuts and pulls which would be used in outdoor. These type of traditional shots are useless in indoor unless you play the ball to the back net and even then you can still be caught or run out. Traditional shots will get you into trouble most of time and unless you smash the ball really hard and give the fielders no chance then you're always a chance to get out. Chopping is the bread and butter of indoor cricket, but you can't do this in outdoor and it can be hard to play these shots if you're playing both forms of the game at the same time as the skill transfer between the games can be difficult to apply.

Another thing about batting is that in outdoor you've got 360 degrees to play your shots in whilst in indoor you've only got 180. In effect that reduces your shot range by half and will result in a lot of the time in players going down the ground to get that 4, 5 or seven runs that they desire. Playing behind square in indoor will only get you one run but in outdoor there's the chance of a boundary or at least more than the single.

Bowling is also quite different. Indoor bowlers need to bowl as full as you can (yorker length), anything short or short of a length will get smashed to the back net or chopped for an easy two runs. Alternatively, you can bowl shortish and at the body, preferrably at the hip which can be hard to get away, this line here in outdoor would hurt you if you've got a good batsman on strike who would milk you with ease. A straightish line can aso work if you're looking to limit the damage. Outdoor you obviously want to bowl a good line length and try and get the batsman to play at the ball with the idea to get the edge behind, in indoor this won't work as it will probably be too short.

However, it's not all doom and gloom. Indoor will keep your skills up, throwing, batting and bowling wise. It is better to at least play a few games of indoor than to not play any cricket at all. Bowling will get you rolling the arm over, batting there's the opportunity to drive (and maybe cut) and of course there's throwing and flicking associated with fielding.

In my opinion, there'll always be different games but indoor is a good way to keep your skills up during the off-season. However, the game becomes more specialised as you reach the higher levels of the game and the tactics become a lot different. WA Superleague is quite competitive and also of a pretty good standard (we are the second best state at indoor after all). Outdoor players struggle at this level if they don't adjust their game and outdoor players new to indoor struggle too, I've seen it happen time after time. But, like I said, it is a good way to keep the skills up and if you're looking for something to do during the off-season and want to keep your skills at a decent level then give indoor a go, it's a great game. @|
 
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i would have to agree, they really are two different games!

i found you really dont value your wicket in indoor cricket, no building of an innings!

but like you say its better to do something rather than nothing and its still a form of cricket!
 
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