Queensland’s players have adopted an unusual training method – batting while wearing glasses that have had their bottom half blacked out and others that have been blurred. As Robert Craddock explains in the Courier-Mail, the aim is to improve the batsmen’s concentration.
"I felt they were quite useful," experienced batsman Martin Love said. "With the blacked-out glasses you lose sight of the ball three or four metres before it gets to you so you start reaching for the ball and hitting it in the air. Eventually you adjust and start waiting for the ball to come to you and hit it later. When you give the glasses away you tend to hit the ball later. That is what we are trying to achieve."
