Mr Cricket by Michael Hussey

Author:Michael Hussey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781742732046
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 2010-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

HOW DO I PLAY AT MY PEAK?

PREPARATION: diet, sleep, relax with Amy, practise, fitness, weights, weekly program – no stone unturned

MOTIVATION: at training, at games

INTENSITY: at training, at games

MONDAY: fielding/fitness

TUESDAY: skills session, net session, long run, fielding

WEDNESDAY: nets (WACA), weights, skills session, fielding

THURSDAY: nets (WACA), fielding, write diary

FRIDAY: game starts.

We got back to Australia and I had just a couple of days to gather my wits before we headed off on the big tour to the West Indies. It took us two days to get there and I was still feeling the effects of jetlag nearly two weeks later. Luckily, we had a fortnight before the tournament started to play practice games, train and acclimatise. In fact, we prepared as well as I can imagine any Australian team preparing.

It was peculiar to me, then, why I wasn’t as excited as I should have been coming into that first game. It was the World Cup, yet I wasn’t really feeling primed. Maybe it was because we were playing Scotland first up and we knew we shouldn’t have much trouble winning. That was the likely reason, I think, because when we played South Africa in the third game, I was a different person and was very excited about playing.

It was a very long tournament and I know there was a lot of talk in Australia about the tournament dragging on and on. But the fact that we had plenty of time between matches was crucial for us, having played such a long stretch of cricket beforehand. We were all missing our families and homes and there were times when many of us felt tired from the regular travelling and playing. But the time between matches allowed us to recover properly, relax a bit, do the appropriate training and also have a bit of time to ourselves.

History will show that we won the World Cup in about as convincing a manner as possible. However, it was only after I returned home from the tournament that I realised that I’d gone into the World Cup a bit fatigued and not at my best. With a gigantic program ahead of us again throughout late 2007 and into 2008, mental fatigue is going to be an issue I’ll have to confront again.

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