How To Prepare For A Match Working As A Cricket Photographer

How do you prepare for a match?

Depends on what the match is. If you've got a test match abroad, it can start weeks before. If there's a lot of gear to carry, you want to make sure you're fit to be able to hump that gear around all day. If you're abroad in really hot sun, you want to make sure days before you're getting gallons of water down and not just on the day you drink a lot of water, that's not it, it's re-hydration most of it so you don't pass out halfway through. Because you're sitting in full sun, you're not even sitting in the shade, you're sat in the sun for eight, nine hours a day which is not great but then with the gear, you want to make sure all your equipment is working properly, clean, everything is in top order. Computers, you make sure, if you're abroad, you've got connections whether it be Wi-Fi, or you've got a local ISP to connect to get your pictures back. Just make sure everything's working properly and go through it all in your mind. Even after years of doing it, there's always something that will catch you out. Something that will happen on the pitch and you're not quite ready for it and you think 'Ah, I should have known that was going to happen' and there's always something that will, and that's the nice thing about the job is the sort of variety of it.