Cricket doesn’t care about my emotions, how well I’m feeling or how nervous I am. There is no optimal emotion for me to perform at. There is only the emotion that is currently present. ‘It just is’.
Coming of the back of a decent score the week before was a factor to me feeling in a pretty calm spot pre game and during my innings. It was an interesting battle battling with a bowler spraying it giving me “yum yums” followed up by a ball that could get me out. I managed this by sticking to my anchored phrase which helped bring me back to the present moment and greater my chances on making good decisions and not throwing it away.
My dismal from an external perspective I imagine would look like I just knicked a good ball spinning away from me. But internally I knew the ball i smashed on to my achilles which was still giving me some agro took me away from that clarity of just watching the ball and reacting. Resulting in me knicking and over hitting a ball that an over before I would’ve made a better decision over.
Next time: I will reset better, maybe take some time out of the over to retie a lace, take some deep breaths and face up again.