Comments on: The cult of digging in: The almost impossible psychological trick the batsman must pull off when you want him to play a rearguard https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260373 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:38:47 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260373 In reply to King Cricket.

Those endless days, those sacred days.

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By: Thesmudge https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260372 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 15:42:17 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260372 In reply to King Cricket.

Remember the days of conditionally formatting spreadsheets!

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260346 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:13:09 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260346 In reply to Thesmudge.

To be honest, when the whole piece of work you’re doing pretty much hinges on whether you can persuade AB de Villiers to talk to you or not, that’s not a hugely enjoyable place to be. Worked out okay in the end and safely grateful to him for speaking to us. Can’t see how he got anything at all out of it himself.

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By: Thesmudge https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260343 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:19:00 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260343 KC is now the sort of chap who the “only” person who would talk to him about batting was AB de Villiers. There must be some satisfaction in that!

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By: Aditya https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260325 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:40:34 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260325 In reply to King Cricket.

Very zen.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260324 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:45:07 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260324 In reply to Aditya.

See the comment above about how “your instinct takes over.” AB says smashing mad sixes and dropping it for none are the exact same thing.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260323 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:44:10 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260323 In reply to Jill.

The old SSL certificate expired yesterday. The (expensive) one we paid for last week has now, somewhat belatedly, been installed by our web hosts.

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By: Mike https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260322 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:57:49 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260322 In reply to Jill.

Likewise. I briefly feared that Surf Control had finally clamped down on my access to the Kingdom having categorised these pages as ‘Entertainment’. However, it would appear they have actually visited the website…

Also, wasn’t ‘digin’ the #hashtag of choice for Official England Cricket not too many Ashes series ago? How that appears to have fallen by the wayside!

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By: Ged https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260321 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:49:57 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260321 In reply to Jill.

I am getting the same dire warnings as Jill.

You are not safe, KC. My system says so.

I always thought you might be a front for the Russians. All those Russian brides I was being offered on the right hand side of the screen. Fiendish.

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By: Aditya https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/the-cult-of-digging-in-this-is-the-almost-impossible-psychological-trick-the-batsman-must-pull-off-when-you-want-him-to-play-a-rearguard/2020/07/08/#comment-260320 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:33:27 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=21829#comment-260320 Sehwag had a system that was the equal but opposite of this. He would play a few balls every innings where he would let the ball almost hit him before he hit it for six.

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