It’s important to want the ball to come to you in the field. You want to showcase your skills. Once you know you aren’t going to get hurt by diving on the floor, then you can really attack fielding, make it fun.
I’m a big believer in ‘keeping the video camera still’ – at backward point I would watch the ball come out of the bowler’s hand but just out of the corner of my eye, so I kept my head still. I was a goalkeeper when I was a teenager and the techniques I used at backward point were pretty similar.