Drills

Skills are built one drill at a time. Yorker's drill mode designs targeted drills for exactly the skill you want to work on — with the setup, the steps, the coaching cues, and a built-in timer to run the session ball by ball.

Generating a drill

Open the coach chat and switch to Drill mode, then describe the skill you want to sharpen:

• "Give me a drill to stop playing across my front pad"
• "Yorker accuracy drill for death bowling, 15 minutes, solo"
• "Slip catching drills for two players with one ball"

Each drill comes with a clear setup, step-by-step execution, coaching cues to check your form against, and a progression — how to make the drill harder as you improve.

Drills are format-aware: Test-match drills lean on defensive technique and patience batting, ODI drills on phase-specific skills like middle-overs rotation, and T20 drills on power hitting, innovative shots, and death bowling. The coach also adapts to what you have — no bowling machine becomes throwdowns, no nets becomes a single-stump target, no partner becomes wall drills and shadow batting. For junior players, drills stay age-appropriate: bowling workloads are limited and technique is emphasised over power.

Interactive drill cards

Every drill renders as an interactive card in chat, not just text:

• Step-by-step execution — numbered steps with the drill's setup, cues, and progression
• Run drill — a guided timer mode that splits the drill duration across steps, counts each one down on a ring, and announces every step aloud as it starts
• Rep counter — track your reps per step while the timer runs; the completion summary totals them up
• Read aloud — audio narration of the full drill (setup, steps, and cues), useful when your hands are full at training

Tip: Prop your phone up at the net, hit Run drill, and let the audio cues pace the session — no need to touch the screen between steps.

Your saved drills

Drills generated in drill mode are saved automatically. The Drills page (search "Drills" in the command palette) lists every saved drill with its intensity and duration — expand any card to run it again with the full timer, or hit Continue in chat to have the coach adjust it, progress it, or build on it.

Drills, practice plans, and your training log

A drill targets one specific skill; a practice plan is a full structured session — warm-up, several drills, and cool-down. Use drill mode when you know exactly what to fix, and plan mode when you want the coach to design the whole session. Either way, record what you actually did in the Training Log so completed work counts toward your progress tracking.