Wicket Taking Celebration
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AUSSIE_BOY
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Re: Wicket Taking Celebration
depends how much the wicket means to me.... if its a rated batsmen, i just get amped up like a goose with a bit of a yell and hand up in the air
depends how much the wicket means to me.... if its a rated batsmen, i just get amped up like a goose with a bit of a yell and hand up in the air
someblokecalleddave
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Re: Wicket Taking Celebration
I play it cool as though I expected nothing else but that to happen. Don't say anything - don't do anything, show no emotion. Actually this is quite interesting because today I was thinking about this and realised that I probably don't even look at the batsman - certainly not in the eyes and I was wondering whether it might be more psychologically intimidating doing this or whether it's worse to be completely dismissed as being of any relevance to the game by the aversion of eye contact? I concentrate wholly on the ball and the fact that I've got to make it spin - I have to be in the zone and that zone totally excludes the batsman.
I play it cool as though I expected nothing else but that to happen. Don't say anything - don't do anything, show no emotion. Actually this is quite interesting because today I was thinking about this and realised that I probably don't even look at the batsman - certainly not in the eyes and I was wondering whether it might be more psychologically intimidating doing this or whether it's worse to be completely dismissed as being of any relevance to the game by the aversion of eye contact? I concentrate wholly on the ball and the fact that I've got to make it spin - I have to be in the zone and that zone totally excludes the batsman.
Jelly Beanz
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Re: Wicket Taking Celebration
Like AUSSIE BOY, it depends on how much I wanted the wicket. If I'm playing 1st XI cricket with the adults or it was a county batsman at school I'm fist pumping, jumping up and down etc but if it was a flukey wicket, or a tailender I'd barely do anything.
Regarding eye contact, I'm always being told I don't stare the batsman down enough. Personally, I let the ball do the talking but people at the club keep saying I should stare at a guy after good balls.
Like AUSSIE BOY, it depends on how much I wanted the wicket. If I'm playing 1st XI cricket with the adults or it was a county batsman at school I'm fist pumping, jumping up and down etc but if it was a flukey wicket, or a tailender I'd barely do anything.
Regarding eye contact, I'm always being told I don't stare the batsman down enough. Personally, I let the ball do the talking but people at the club keep saying I should stare at a guy after good balls.
king_of_slaves
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Re: Wicket Taking Celebration
Chicken dance? Na... For me it really depends on the situation. If it's just the normal kind of situation, I'll act as if nothing happened. If it's somebody who had been smashing me for a couple, I'd do a couple of taunting after the dismissal. If it's one of my mates, just give them a pat on the shoulder telling them that it wasn't a bad shot or he just got unlucky or something like that.
Chicken dance? Na... For me it really depends on the situation. If it's just the normal kind of situation, I'll act as if nothing happened. If it's somebody who had been smashing me for a couple, I'd do a couple of taunting after the dismissal. If it's one of my mates, just give them a pat on the shoulder telling them that it wasn't a bad shot or he just got unlucky or something like that.