Josh Kennedy: [00:00:00] Welcome back to the Cricket Matters podcast. This week we're talking about three times every batter must know when running between the wickets, sort of continuing our sprinting theme. Uh, if you haven't listened to the last podcast, that's all about the secret to running faster between the wickets. So James, what are these three mystical times every, uh, batter should know
James Breese: this is gonna be, this is gonna be the fastest podcast in the world.
I think Run a single, run a two. Run a three. I. I don't think there are many cricketers who know, except for the elite level. Yeah. How fast they run a single, how fast they want a two, and how fast they run. Three, because that impacts how you do take, well, how you score runs because you know, okay, I can do this.
Right. If there's a time between throwing the ball from, from the, from the outfield, from the infield, wherever happens to be, if you know you can run a single in a specific time. You know, you can make it, but if you don't know these times, you're [00:01:00] just guessing. So again, our goal is to make you a better cricketer and the best cricketers.
Know how fast they can run a single, how fast they can run a two, how fast they can run a three. Now, if you took this to elite baseball and, and batters and hitters in baseball. They know exactly how fast say it takes them to run up to a plate.
Josh Kennedy: They've got data for everything, don't they? They know exactly precisely what do exactly.
They know it's
James Breese: 30 yard string plates to, and they know exactly how fast it's gonna take them. And in fact, they test it in the Major League baseball combine 'cause they wanna see how they're doing it. So they know it's approximately 4.8 seconds. On average. It takes a hit as to get to first base. So an outfield, a nose, depending on how the ball comes to them, they can set for a second 'cause they got a gun arm to throw it in.
How long it does it so everything looks in slow time because they know the time and speed to do these things. So the key in in baseball was to run faster because they've gotta get to the first base as fast as they possibly can, or second base and third base.
Josh Kennedy: Yeah. And obviously you should know your times [00:02:00] for a single two and a three in the full kit, but not necessarily always practice in full.
You've gotta work on your sprinting mechanics and and, and all that, but you've gotta do it in full kit. So it's an accurate depiction. Right, exactly. So again,
James Breese: when we come back to, when we're working with people. We like to do both. We like to get people practicing running without kit for sprinting mechanics, but we know it's changes when they put a kit on.
So you've gotta practice both. Yeah. Okay. So there's no two ways about it. So you essentially need to know two times. One, twos and threes without kit and the other, and the other with ink kit, full kit helmet. The, the works still what we try and get. So let's put everyone out their misery very quickly. How far should he be able to, to run a single or two and a three?
So again, this is not our words, this is the word from data and research. 'cause guess what? There's some boffins out there who've gone around the world and analyzed elite cricket cricketers to see how fast they can run. So we know that the men, the medal, the men's in the men's game, right? A single, [00:03:00] the average to run a single is between 3.11 seconds and 3.55 seconds.
Right. So if we take that on average for the amateur game, we need to be under three and a half seconds. Can you do that? Yeah.
Josh Kennedy: Right. You think they can compare that well to to, because obviously we're talking about elite here. Yeah. So county, how amateur cricket is what
James Breese: I think it's something
Josh Kennedy: to
James Breese: aim
Josh Kennedy: for a
James Breese: hundred
Josh Kennedy: percent.
James Breese: Yeah, a hundred percent now. Definitely
Josh Kennedy: under
James Breese: the, definitely under four seconds, obviously. Yeah, exactly. So we gotta think about more. Well, we then gotta think about age groups and categories for the, the seniors. The forties, fifties, and sixties. Yes. Yeah. But let's just put everyone in the same pool for now.
We gotta figure that out ourselves at some point. But a goal for particularly the youngsters coming up and parents who are helping their kids come through at the moment. Well, the goal is this. They should be able to run a single under three and a half seconds, if not. They're not elite. That's, that's it.
And there's a big difference. It's a big part of the game there. Now let's look at this. In running twos, right, the data shows they should be able to run a two in 7.1 to [00:04:00] 7.3 seconds.
Josh Kennedy: Okay? 100 turn on your strong side. Well that, yeah. You haven't listen to the previous podcast. Okay.
James Breese: And then running a three 10.67 to 10.69.
Right. So we've got a rough summary here now of three and a half seconds to a single seven seconds. Just over seven seconds. Seven and a half seconds max for running a two. I'm running a three 10 and a half seconds to 11 seconds, right?
Josh Kennedy: Yeah,
James Breese: you need to on time. Yourself, guys, like can you hit those numbers a hundred percent?
Yep. If you wanna be an elite batsman, this is the sort of sort of stuff you wanna get to now in the women's game. There hasn't been any research yet, right? So what we did do is we looked at the research from sprinting times and took a whole lot of data, compiled it, and we believe this is an estimate for the women, okay?
So we believe that a female cricketer should be able to run a single between three and a half to four seconds. [00:05:00] Okay? Run a two, between seven and a half to eight seconds and run a three, between 11 and a half and 12 seconds. That's the data we've kind of pulled into it. Again, it is purely anecdotal. We're based on good anecdotal research from other sports and other things, but that's the sort of timeframe we're looking for in how to improve people running between the wickets.
So as simple as it is, right, we need people running this fast between the wickets based on the elite numbers, or if you're aspiring to get to elite, that's the, that's the target you wanna work with. Awareness is key, like holding a bat in one hand and be fast between the wickets is how fast are you running between the wickets already?
Is it something you need to work on and to improve your game?
Josh Kennedy: Totally. Well, one, you've gotta be. Fast at sprinting with good sprint mechanics. First and foremost, you've gotta be strong enough. Mm-hmm. And then also, obviously it gets very technical. Don't, 'cause as you say, you've gotta carry, carrying the, the research shows.
Carrying the [00:06:00] bat in one hand is the best way to do it. And then you've gotta work on your turns as well. Mm-hmm. Because we were watching a, um, was it an ecb uh, video and they were doing the turns and the guy was doing it really well. He was like really reaching and getting really low. And essentially as he turned, he was looking like a sprinter.
Yep. Coming out, uh, of the blocks, wasn't he on? So that's, there's two methods you can't turn quick. No. And you know, I, I think,
James Breese: I think we need to do definitely turning mechanics in a video, I think, to show people how to do it. Because there's two, there's two ways you can do it coming out like a sprinter and then coming out like a half and half kind of method.
But I, the half and half heaven is what we try to teach more because it gives you better vision in terms of where the ball is. But both have their merits at different type at different times, if that makes sense. So you're right, but again. Think of this, the better you're running mechanics, the better it'll carry over to running in pads.
That's the, that's the approach we go. So we need to have great sprinting mechanics and then we kind of break the rules a little bit by putting the pads on to get them in here. 'cause again, if your arms are going all over the place, [00:07:00] guess what's gonna happen? The time's gonna be down. So we need to focus on, the more you
Josh Kennedy: can ingrain those sprint, those sprint mechanics in the first place, the more, yeah.
Obviously you can never get it perfect 'cause you're wearing kit. Yeah. But it'll be better.
James Breese: Yeah, absolutely. So we, we do both. So again, we're not saying, we're not saying you should always should train without kit. We're, our process is we do TR mechanics and technical work without kit and then we put another bit of pressure running in kit to, to mimic game-like scenarios, which I think is really important.
But again, a goal is help we score more runs as a batter, okay? Mm-hmm. And the best way to score more runs is run better between the wickets. And be fitter because you're not gonna score a boundary or a six every single ball. It's about Nerd League. For ones and twos. Look at the best. Joe Root's a great example.
How many runs do he score through? Third man, right? Noodles down for one. Sometimes a boundary, but the point is we've gotta try and put it all together and to help you become a better cricketer by understanding these numbers. And this is the [00:08:00] data. At the highest level that you need to know. Yeah,
Josh Kennedy: so absolutely there.
Yeah. So there you go guys. If you don't know your times for your ones, twos and threes, go and get it timed. That is it for today. Please don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe. And if you would like our free training plan, then go to cricket matters.com/train. And remember, our goal is to make you a better cricketer.