{"id":30,"date":"2026-09-23T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/2026\/09\/23\/five-drills-to-sharpen-your-back-foot-game\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:18:27","slug":"five-drills-to-sharpen-your-back-foot-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/2026\/09\/23\/five-drills-to-sharpen-your-back-foot-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Five drills to sharpen your back-foot game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most club batters are stronger off the front foot. These five drills, taken from our batting masterclass, build the balance and timing to punish anything short.<\/p>\n

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  1. Step-back shadow:<\/strong> twenty slow-motion back-and-across steps without a ball, checking your head stays still.<\/li>\n
  2. Tennis-ball bounce:<\/strong> a partner bounces tennis balls at chest height; play the pull and cut with soft hands.<\/li>\n
  3. Gate drill:<\/strong> two cones just outside off stump force you to play the cut late, under your eyes.<\/li>\n
  4. Machine short-ball ladder:<\/strong> start at 90 km\/h and add 5 km\/h every six balls.<\/li>\n
  5. Scoring zones:<\/strong> finish with a scenario that rewards only runs scored behind square.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Film yourself from side-on. If your back foot is not parallel to the crease, start again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Simple net drills our coaches use to help batters score square of the wicket off the back foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-tips","tag-batting","tag-drills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-cricket-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}