when i was batting, if i opened i used to love taking the first ball. get it out on to the middle of the deck and just feel it out of the screws early. watch the bowlers are watch the ball onto the bat. you dont have to go out swinging from ball dot, build a nice innings, but keep your confidence. time in the middle is getting your form back. punish the bad balls, you must as when i was bowling and i bolwed a widish or bad ball and the batsmen struggled i gain all the confidence i needed as a bowler to think this guy is struggling, then the mind games come into it.'
when your batting take it all in, dont get agro and if they are sledging let them get to you. i used to love when they where giving me stick, just agree with them and lught it off, nothing gets them pissed off even more was if they are trying to sledge you, your enjoying your time out there and even better the runs are flowing.
if you play and miss at a few, dont worry we all do and will continue to, just keep concentrating, one thing i used to do and was always good at it was to count my runs, some say a bad idea as you know when the nervous 90's are etc but i used to be able to build an innings in blocks of ten. get to ten right start again, back on zero, and you do it that way and bfefore you know it your 30 or 40 and feeling brilliant. but just enjoy have fun and give it to them, before you know it they wont be sledging you buddy, they will be sledging each other.