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Over the last thirty years, few cricketers caught better in the slips than Richie Richardson and Graeme Hick. Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey and New Zealand’s Chris Harris were about as blinding in the outfield as you could get.

These and other former test stars are coming to Eversley Cricket Club on Friday June 3^rd, with the Lashings World XI, but whilst the game goes on, you too can learn to field like the stars. Take the Crazy Catch one minute challenge and sharpen your reactions, hand-eye coordination and vision, with the same rebound reaction trainer used by international cricket teams all over the world.

Essex swing bowling legend and Lashings Manager, John Lever, believes Crazy Catch  helps develop good catching skills. Lever who played with some great slip catchers for England and Essex, believes taking the ball with soft hands is the key. Time and again the likes of Keith Fletcher, Mike Hendrick, Ian Botham, and the best he ever saw, mark Waugh, picked up catches off his bowling. Lever remembers the time when Botham actually dropped one. “He shrugged, apologised, but still wanted the next one to come to him, and never lost confidence that he would catch it,” Lever says.

“With Crazy Catch, the ball comes at you at different angles, so it’s more like a game,” Lever adds. “The more you practice the better you become, and Crazy Catch makes catching practice fun, and something you can do on your own. You don’t need someone to hit the ball to you or stand the other side of the slip cradle. It’s just you, the ball and the Crazy Catch; you can spend as much time as you want.”

The Crazy Catch One Minute Challenge is pretty straightforward. You get one minute to take as many catches as you can. But watch out, one side of the Crazy Catch is double sprung, giving an unpredictable, insane return. On the day, the best under 14 will get a trophy, so too will the best over 14.

At the end of every Lashings game, each One Minute Challenge winner’s name goes into a hat. At the end of the Lashings season, one of the local winners will get a lunch trip to Lord’s in the company of a Lashings player.

Thousands play Crazy Catch in schools, clubs and back gardens all over the UK. To find out more, visit www.flicx.co.uk or call Richard Beghin on 07900883630