GB2411598A

GB2411598A - A cricket training mat

Info

Publication number: GB2411598A
Application number: GB0404649A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Andrew Emery
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-03-02
Filing date: 2004-03-02
Publication date: 2005-09-07
Also published as: GB0404649D0

Abstract

A cricket training mat comprises a mat with lines and areas defined in various colours. The mat guides a left or right handed player as to the appropriate stance and position in which to make the required shot.

Description

241 1 598 Cricket Coaching Mat.

Description.

Six colours are used in the mat design. These are, black, white, yellow, blue, light green, dark green The mat which is 11 yards long, and six feet wide, should be made of any material which can replicate the normal playing characteristics of a cricket pitch within parameters, given that the mat will be laid on a hard surface, such as a sports hall floor or tarmac type playground. The mat should be durable. The mat is divided into equal sized quarters by white lines, which run vertically and horizontally. If we imagine we are standing at one end of He mat, two of the sections [urtl.est away from us are predominantly light green in colour, apart from the two geometrically opposed shapes, one in blue and one in yellow, which mirror each other. A different geometric and mirrored shape appears on the two sections of the mat, which are nearest to us as we look at it, again in blue, and yellow, but this time on a background of darker coloured green.

Where the white line divides the mat in two horizontally as we look at it, are two ovular shapes in black.

Claims

Cricket Coaching Mat.

Claims.

The design gives guidance to right or}eft-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play a front foot cricket shot.

The design gives guidance to right or left-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play a back foot cricket shot.

The design gives guidance to right or left-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play a defensive front foot cricket shot.

The design gives guidance to right or left-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play an attacldug front foot cricket shot.

The design gives guidance to right or left-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play a defensive back foot cricket shot.

The design gives guidance to right or left-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play an attacking front foot cricket shot.

The design gives guidance to right or 3eft-handed cricket batsman on the appropriate time to play an attacking back foot cricket shot.

The mat incorporates the line and length of 'body-line', bowling to right and left handed players.

The mat incorporates We line of bowlLng for a 'snick to slips' to right and left handed players.

The design gives right and left-handed bowlers, a target area.

The design gives bowlers reference areas.

The design gives bowlers the opportunity to examine the merits or otherwise of bowling deliveries which do not land within the target area.

The design gives both right and left-handed bowlers and batsmen reference points to which they can examine the merits of both the line and length of each delivery.

Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows I. The shape of the surface decoration descries the best areas for a medium paced bowler of either left of right-handed origin to pitch the ball given present recorded documented data available in order to achieve the aim of batsman dismissal.
2. The shape of the surface decoration describes an area of danger of dismissal to a right or left handed batsman according to where the ball pitches given the present recorded documented data available.

3 The shape of the surface decoration describes an area of length for which a medium paced bowler of either left or right-handed origin can pitch the ball given present recorded documented data available in order to achieve the aim of uncertainty of weight on the front-foot or weight on the back-foot type shots for the batsman in receipt of a delivery.

4 The shape of the surface decoration describes an area of length for which a left or right handed batsman should consider whether side should play a shot using weight on either their front or the back foot, given the present recorded documented data available.