"The Korean Sports Academy, yet again creates rising stars for The football premire league. The past few years have been excellent for The growth of Korean Football and scouting talent."
Aah, it's about the KSA again. I've heard about it like a million times by now.
"What made it possible is this KSA, that has been found back in 1992 but has recently had visible growth potential in nurturing talents. Not just Football bug the likes of Baseball, Basketball, Vollyball and Table tennis have also seen visible spike in INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS."
If only it had cricket, I'd probably get scouted, not only that but people would understand the dynamics of cricket way better than they do now.
"Mind you, for the people who don't know. This is an academy directly funded by the government. The givernment funds as far as 500 Billion won into the academy and it's prosparity. For infrastructure, Tournament holdings and many other things."
Like, this game is all about timing, placement and power and not just mindless slogging.
It's not a hit and run game, It's a hit it in the gaps game.
That's why we are allowed to hit 360 degrees and not a 1 dimensional sport.
"If you wish to join the academy, I'm sorry, but you have to get scouted by professionals and that's the only way you can enter. This Acadeny has 3 years of academic life.
Teaching everything, Starting from the basics of the sport to tactics, Gameplay and Leadership. It's a place that teaches everything and has practical Tournaments every month."
Korean cricket has a lot to learn honestly, They are mindlessly tonking the ball.
Like in baseball, where you see the ball and predict the trejectary and hit it for a homerun
That's not how you play cricket.
You can hit the ball and take singles, you can try and find gaps between Fielders.
It's not always about hitting sixes.
If the pitch is good to bowl on, even 120 can be saved. You Don't have to go far and try and hit 180 runs.
Even the greatest batsman fail to score runs when there's purchase on the Ground.
That's what they need to understand. Once you unerstand the Timing of how to hit the ball you'll easily understand how to tonk sixes without worrying about hitting it to the fielders.
Whenever there's a big and a small team, they'll always have good bowling pitches to make it easier for lower level teams to have lower scores.
But, whenever there's a flat pitch you'll 100% of the time lose.
Why? Because, you already having a hard time scoring below par runs on Good bowling decks.
How will you hit 100/50 balls on flat pitches ehich by the way won't even guarentee a victory.
Now, the real test begins for these people. The real test would be the 50 over format.
A format, that'll test your Patience, Timing, Placement, And most of all SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.
Why situational awareness? Its a 300 ball game, for 1 innings.
You have ample time to score runs but you can't be too defencuve nor can you be too attacking.
This will reveal your mindset, If you are Worthy enough to play 50 over cricket.
Because, you need to have that awareness of when to do what.
Based on wickets, Based on runs scored and based on the amount of overs bowled.
What some teams do is get too defencive and barely score 200 and some try to tonk everything and get all out below 150.
The average score in a 50 over game is 300 and you have to play all 50 overs. That's mandatory.
You can't just play 30 overs and score 300 runs.
You have to make sure you save your wicket until than...
Unlike t20 format, You can play 100 balls and score 100 runs and it won't matter.
What you can't do is score 30/10 and get out
that doesn't help anybody.
While you can do that in the back end (I.e between 40-50 overs) but doing that as an opener is absolutely unnecessary.
It's fine if you score 30/10 and are not out and end up scoring 100/100 even but if you get to avoid is getting out off of that score.
If you get out while facing an insanely good delivery, It's all well and good but if you get out based off your own stupidity?
That's forbidden, I'd suggest you avoid that.
But, all of that is worthless if you can't have good shot selection, and a good form while playing shots.
While Hard hitters don't have what you call footwork but that's an exception.
They are inhuman, If you think you are inhumane try hitting shots without proper footwork, You'll 99% of the time get out.
Even as basic as defence needs footwork.
There are 2 types of footwork, 1 front foot and the other backfoot.
There are certain deliveries that are supposed to be hit off of front foot while some off of backfoot.
If you do the opposite, You'll get out.
Hand and eye coordination, footwork, Timing, Placement, Power.
All of these combined together will create a perfect shot and if even one of these are lacking unless you have a stroke of luvk.
You'll get out. It's as simple as that.
But, than... who teaches them these things?
Nobody since they have no experience in cricket.
Korean cricketers have no proper cricketing form, No proper footwork, They have ample amounts of power but without timing it's worthless.
So, that's precisely why smaller teams are lagging behind bigger teams and teams like Afghanistan, South Africa and even Switzerland and USA That recently got better understood the framework of cricket.
That which teams like Korea, Japana and China didn't understand.
These teams only understood that after they played against bigger teams.
The things they are lacking and the things they need to improve on.
That's why once a team understood the game completely, they Don't really have a downfall.
They just go down for a bit and than come back up again.
No team, Unless taken down by the govt has ever really Had a downfall so bad that they stopped playing altogether.
Or representing the country.
It's because once you understand the framework of cricket, There's never a downfall because some way or the other you'll do better and get better.
But that realisation only comes once they actually play against higher ranked teams.
But that happens once every centuary when teams like these qualify for world cup games.
That's why for the development of cricket, someone who understands these dynamics needs to coach the country.