GETTING to GRIPS is a unique publication for cricket players and coaches of all ages. It offers skills, drills and practical solutions to common batting problems. Toby Radford uses his experience as an international batting coach to offer invaluable insight into what makes the world's best players so successful. He describes the Five Fundamentals of batting - the basis of good batting - and uses an innovative mix of images and notes to describe so clearly what have always appeared highly complex batting techniques and movements. Ten years in the West Indies, as batting coach to some of the world's finest players, has enabled Toby to study his own players at close hand as well as some of the finest from opposing teams around the world. The techniques, skills and drills Toby uses to great effect with the world's top batsmen in the West Indies, in Bangladesh and with the ECB are all offered here to help take your playing or coaching to the next level. Enjoy!.