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Client: Chris Lynn T20 Cricket Academy Project: T20 academy hero video Duration: N/A – app. 5min Format: 16:9, colour Talent: Chris Lynn Date: 060515

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FADE UP TO SLOW-MOTION CHRIS VO: FOOTAGE OF SPINNING CRICKET What happens when it all BALL TRAVELLING HORIZONTALLY comes together and there’s ACROSS FRAME nothing holding you back?

When your training kicks in and everything just flows…

When you suddenly realise your full potential.

Big things. SLOW MOTION GOING TO NORMAL SPEED AND CRICKET BALL (SFX: crack of bat hitting DISAPPEARING OUT OF FRAME ball)

VIDEO MONTAGE WITH (THEME MUSIC UP) HIGHLIGHTS FROM CHRIS’ CAREER (THEME MUSIC DOWN & UNDER)

CHRIS: MS: CHRIS Hi, I’m Chris Lynn from the Brisbane Heat and Kolkata Knight Riders. Welcome to the CL T20 Academy.

In a moment, I’ll be revealing what support you’ll enjoy as an academy squad member, but to ensure that you’ll get the most out

of our work together, I’ll start by covering some ground rules.

CU: CHRIS If you’re serious about your professional cricket career, there are a few things you should know.

Firstly, that everything you do creates habits that affect your game. Over time, cricket literally becomes part of you – it’s in your muscle memory and in how you instinctively react in certain situations. So practice the right techniques the right way, or you’ll have to unlearn before you can develop further.

FROM THIS POINT ONWARD, Good habits are about more ALTERNATING HALF-BODY, than what you do on the CLOSE-UPS AND APPROPRIATE field, though. As I grew up, TOPICAL FOOTAGE my parents always used to nag me to do well in school. They were right. Not only because there’s a life after your cricket career, but because always applying yourself 100% reinforces the dedication you need as a professional.

Of course, you’ll also find it a lot easier to focus on your game when everything around you is working out. It’s like Darren Lehmann told me: “when life is good off the field, it’s good on the field”.

With the right guidance, you’ll soon realise that you (CONTINUED) can draw on all sorts of ALTERNATING HALF-BODY, experiences to improve your CLOSE-UPS AND APPROPRIATE game. As an academy squad TOPICAL FOOTAGE member, you’ll learn to live by this code.

Secondly, be aware that not everyone will understand the path you are on. That probably goes even for some of the players in your cricket team. Not everyone will have your level of ambition, and it can be easy to get distracted from achieving your goals. Make sure that you listen to the right people.

At CL T20, I’ll share my own skills and experiences as well as the collective knowledge of my specialist coaches, physiotherapists, nutritionists and other elite professionals with you. Having already passed the milestones that are still ahead of you, I’ll let you know what obstacles you can expect to come up next.

Which leads me to the third point:

Don’t despair if you face adversity. If you’re dropped from a team, if you’re struggling with an injury or if you feel that you simply cannot take it to the next level. I’ve been there. Before I joined the tour as a professional player, I was dropped from 1st to 2nd-grade cricket, and I’ve worked my

way back from some pretty severe injuries.

(CONTINUED) Accept what is, and find the ALTERNATING HALF-BODY, inspiration to overcome the CLOSE-UPS AND APPROPRIATE challenge. It’s a skill that TOPICAL FOOTAGE you’ll have plenty of use for in all areas of life.

Much of what you see at CL T20 is built on this kind of resilience, because that’s what it takes to become a professional cricketer.

Ok, one last word of wisdom before we get to your CL T20 membership: keep it fun. Nothing will make you play better than your love for the game.

CL T20 LOGO Now, let’s look at exactly what kind of support your CHRIS, MIXED SHOTS academy membership gives you. It is, in a word, comprehensive. Has to be.

You see, cricket is just CU: BALL IN HAND like the ball you play with – all sides are interconnected. True, you CHRIS, MIXED SHOTS can specialise as a batter, bowler or fielder, but you can never excel in either position without having a thorough understanding of the others. Being able to predict how the opposing batters, bowlers and fielders will react to your strategies is hugely important. As is being able to communicate wordlessly with your own teammates. To be the complete package on the field, you have to

TOSSING UP BALL AND CATCHING become a well-rounded IT AGAIN player. Your success hinges on this game awareness.

CURSOR MOVING OVER MAIN From the moment you enrol at NAVIGATION MENU ON HOMEPAGE, the academy, you have full CHECKING OUT WHAT’S access to a huge range of AVAILABLE. videos, illustrated guides and audio. You’ll progress through courses arranged into seven modules: batting, bowling, fielding, captaincy, fitness, nutrition and game awareness. And on top of these seven tuition modules, CURSOR HOVERING ABOVE you’ll enjoy two special RELEVANT LINKS/BUTTONS video and audio modules where I go deeper into the MODULE FOOTAGE OF CHRIS ON mindset of a successful COUCH, SPILLING THE BEANS ON athlete, reveal how some THIS AND THAT. little touches – we call them 1%ers – can add up to winning a match, and share STILL: OLD FAMILY PICTURE my journey from 7-year-old rookie in the Queensland STILL: PORTRAIT FROM countryside to professional PROFESSIONAL LIFE cricketer touring the world and being coached by greats STILLS: CHRIS WITH HIS such as X, X and X. MENTORS

TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION Detailed videos make is easy VIDEO to understand different techniques and integrate the skills.

CU: YOUNG HAND SCROLLING Illustrated guides provide THROUGH FULL-SCREEN PDF ON quick and convenient IPAD reference.

YOUNG PLAYER LYING ON GRASS, For those quiet moments when LISTENING TO POD CAST you just want to lean back and absorb new knowledge, you have pod casts covering everything from short balls

and captaincy to training intensity and mindset for success.

STUDENT POSTING QUESTION ON And when you want to FB interact with your fellow students or me, just log in to the members-only academy Facebook Group, where you can read my private updates STUDENT INTERACTING ON FB directly from the tour and we all chat about everything cricket. It’s a fun and easy way of always staying in touch with the game.

CU: CHRIS ON FIELD Each module is absolutely jam-packed with information that I know will help you improve your game. We’re CHRIS, MIXED SHOTS ON FIELD talking the most useful knowledge and deep insights that I have gleaned from everyone who has helped put me where I am today: elite coaches, fitness trainers, X and X who have spent a lifetime developing their particular expertise. Cherry-picked pieces of advice and wisdoms that usually only are traded between professional players in the locker room. Not just one or two little nuggets, either. All in all, the main curriculum consists of some 70 videos, 70 written guides and 6 audio pod casts – and more learning material will be added as you go.

I will personally take you through batting, fielding, captaincy, fitness, nutrition and game

awareness. For the bowling, I will introduce you to spin bowler Cameron Boyce and pace bowler Ryan Harrison. Together, we’ll help you build all the skills you need to become the complete package.

I truly see this as a CU: CHRIS ON FIELD privilege and an honour. Because I know that, for all my successes as a CHRIS ON FIELD, MIXED SHOTS professional player, I wouldn’t have got here had it not been for my own trusted coaches and mentors.

This is going to be fun – and I can’t wait to see where it’ll take you. I can tell you one thing for sure: anything is possible. Not long ago, I was just a little boy who loved cricket and the next Star Wars figurine.

CU: CHRIS But I dared to dream.

MS: CHRIS CASUALLY HITTING BALL ACROSS FIELD See you inside.

CHRIS SMILING AND WALKING OFF