Players develop the technical and mental skills for the game over time and with experience through good cricket coaching and practice of repetitive skill sets and the grooving of individual techniques.

Famously, Sir Don Bradman practiced for hours hitting a golf ball with a stump against an uneven wall to develop his incredible hand-eye co-ordination.

Sachin Tendulkar is known to often spend hours on a bowling machine practicing individual shots after his team training session.

These two batting legends would have easily clocked up the 10,000 repetitions of an action required for a skill to be loaded into the subconscious mind, as described by Bob Woolmer in “The Art and Science of Cricket.”