Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
Or so Ed Smith would have it, anyway.
Steve Waugh told me that writing a diary coincided with his best seasons. Peter Roebuck produced his best season (1702 runs with seven hundreds) in the year he wrote It Never Rains. Mark Wagh was one of only five Englishmen to score 1000 runs in the first division in 2008, while he was writing Pavilion to Crease… and Back.
And now, best of all, the Tasmania and Australia A opening batsman Ed Cowan has produced a happy ending to top the lot. He kept a diary of his 2010-11 season for Tasmania, now published as In the Firing Line.
Let's see if we can test this philosophy out. It won't be too long before the routine of pre-season coaching and practice starts off for 2012, and whilst I've done a few seasonal diaries before, and used the "Your Season" thread at some depth, I hope this will be a little different - more of a stream of consciousness than an attempt to set off with anything particular in mind. It may include technical observations, coaching points, psychological waffle, or ranting about umpires.
I wonder what it'll do to my batting.
Steve Waugh told me that writing a diary coincided with his best seasons. Peter Roebuck produced his best season (1702 runs with seven hundreds) in the year he wrote It Never Rains. Mark Wagh was one of only five Englishmen to score 1000 runs in the first division in 2008, while he was writing Pavilion to Crease… and Back.
And now, best of all, the Tasmania and Australia A opening batsman Ed Cowan has produced a happy ending to top the lot. He kept a diary of his 2010-11 season for Tasmania, now published as In the Firing Line.
Let's see if we can test this philosophy out. It won't be too long before the routine of pre-season coaching and practice starts off for 2012, and whilst I've done a few seasonal diaries before, and used the "Your Season" thread at some depth, I hope this will be a little different - more of a stream of consciousness than an attempt to set off with anything particular in mind. It may include technical observations, coaching points, psychological waffle, or ranting about umpires.
I wonder what it'll do to my batting.