Reading the New Ball
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Building a Test Innings
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Shot selection and temperament for batting long — leaving well, rotating strike, cashing in. A short, unromantic guide to the hardest thing in club cricket: staying in. Written for the batter who gets a start every week and gives it away at thirty, and wants to know why.
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accessLifetime, yours to keep
length48 pages, no filler
what's inside
The order of play.
- 01The first twenty balls — surviving the new ball
- 02Leaving well: the shot that scores no runs
- 03Reading the bowler's plan before he sets it
- 04Rotating strike and killing the maiden
- 05The dangerous thirties — where innings die
- 06Cashing in when the shine has gone
- 07Batting with the tail and closing it out
the reading
Format & delivery.
| Attribute | Reading |
|---|---|
| Format | PDF (A5, print-friendly) |
| Length | 48 pages |
| Chapters | 7 |
| Devices | Phone, tablet, desktop |
| Access | Lifetime, no renewal |
| Delivery | Instant download |
| On the card | $1.60 |
why we wrote it
Everyone gets in. Few stay.
Walk into any club dressing room and the story is the same: a batting order full of players who can strike it cleanly for twenty and cannot, for the life of them, turn a start into a score. It is not a technique problem. It is a decision problem — which ball to hit, which to leave, and when the game has quietly changed under your feet.
We wrote this because the coaching that fixes it rarely gets written down. This is the pavilion conversation set on paper: the honest, slightly boring habits that separate the batter with a top score of 38 from the one who bats through. Read it on the train the morning of a game. It is short on purpose.
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“The chapter on surviving the dangerous thirties should be pinned up in every changing room. Read it on the Friday, made my maiden fifty on the Saturday.”
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“Short, sharp and no wasted words. I wanted more on playing spin, but what's here is worth ten times the asking price.”
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Before you download.
What format is it?
A clean PDF that reads well on a phone on the train, a tablet in the rooms, or printed A5 for the kit bag. No app and no login — the file is simply yours.
How long will it take to read?
Forty-eight pages, no filler — an evening, or a couple of train journeys. It's written to be re-read the morning of a game, not shelved after one sitting.
Is it for club players or juniors?
Both. The habits it covers — leaving well, rotating strike, surviving the thirties — matter as much in second XI cricket as they do for a promising junior learning to bat time.
Do I get updates?
Access is lifetime and yours to keep. If we revise the guide, you get the new edition at no extra cost through the same download link.
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