Television as coach
ESPNcricinfo staff
14-Jan-2014
Gideon Haigh, in The Australian's Cuts and Glances blog, writes about how acts performed by world-class players on television can filter down to the grassroots game
Resumed at the Yarras yesterday, and had to do something unusual - a panting, sliding save chasing back at fine leg. 'Bloody hell,' I thought as I approached the boundary and realised I wasn't going to make it. 'I'm going to have to do one of those things they do on TV.' So I dived, and turned back the ball with a sweep of my arm to the teammate who was running behind me.
As we ran in, I confided this in my teammate. 'That's funny,' he said. 'As I was running behind you, I thought: bloody hell, he's going to have to do one of those things they do on TV.'