Momentum - Does it Exist?

[centurymaker]

Don't believe in "momentum" unless it's meant as a synonym for form or confidence (which themselves are far from the same thing), however I think a lot of people mean it totally differently from those two words.

I’m as certain as you can be that confidence affects performance, purely from personal experience. Being confident (or “in form” if you like) by no means guarantees that you will perform well though, merely makes it more likely.

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yea thats what i was saying.

 

[Cabinet96]

I can understand the idea within a game. But not between matches. It's simply buzzword for players to use in order to describe "playing well" or "form".

This! Within a game it definitely plays a part i.e. good end to the first innings and a good start to the second, but not between matches. Long breaks kill momentum.

 

[Tricia McMillan]

To me, this thread is hilarious, because I'm a Kiwi living in North America, and in North America I hear "momentum" used the exact same way as we use "form" back in New Zealand, and then after that experience, I come into this thread and see some people having tried to say that they're two different things.

Not calling them wrong, but it's just funny to read after I built up that mindset after three years in the United States (since I'm often trying to "translate" Americanisms back into my "native dialect").

 

[smash84]

yes, there is lots of momentum in cricket

F = (mv)/t

(mv)=Ft

Force is simply rate of momentum i.e. when a batsman hits a shot or a bowler runs in or bowls you see lots of momentum

 

[centurymaker]

smiley's best post till now?

 

[Spikey]

2011 world series

 

[Son Of Coco]

Manko o misete kudasai?

Edit: Wait, how did this end up in here?

 

[Howe_zat]

If the answer's not air jordan, I don't want to know