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The mental performance coach built for cricket.

It solves every cricket problem that shows up in the nets, on match day, between deliveries, after a bad game, and the night before the final. And it gives you the answer Nik Badkundri would give you.

  • 10+ years coaching cricketers
  • 165+ in the last 12 months
  • Junior to state and professional level

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The mental game shouldn’t be for the few.

One-to-one mental performance coaching is expensive and usually fully booked. So Nik built the same work into something every cricketer can open, whenever they need it.

“Tell it what you’re dealing with. It matches you with the exact framework I’d use with you, built specifically for your situation, and it walks you through it.”

Nik Badkundri · Mental performance coach
How it works

Open it. Say what happened. Get Nik’s answer.

01

Start 2 days free

Set up your account in a couple of minutes. Nothing is charged for the first 2 days.

02

Bring the problem

Say it the way you’d say it to a teammate. Nets, match day, a bad game, selection. No forms, no menus.

03

Work it through

HeyNik works out which pattern is running and takes you through the framework Nik would use with you.

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Come in as a founding member.

HeyNik is open. The first 25 people to join become founding members: 2 days free to try it, then a price that never moves again.

  • 2 days free to start. Try the whole thing first. Cancel within the 2 days and you’re not charged a cent.
  • $30 a week, locked for life. It goes to $40 a week once the 25 founding spots are gone. Yours stays at $30.
  • Full access from day one. Every problem, every pattern, the whole Badkundri Method™. No tiers and nothing held back for a higher plan.
  • A Game Plan 1:1 with Nik. Every founding member gets one one-to-one Game Plan session with Nik himself.
  • Built around the first 25. What those 25 get stuck on shapes what gets added next. That input doesn’t exist again once the founding spots are gone.
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2 days free, then
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Locked in for as long as you stay.

2 days free, then $30 a week for the first 25 founding members, locked for as long as you stay ($40 a week after that). Cancel in the first 2 days and you won’t be charged.

Questions first? Read the answers or get the details by email.

The invisible bottleneck

You carry moments.

30 off 40. You’re in. You’ve done the hard part.

Then one thought arrives. “Don’t waste this.”

And from that ball the innings changes. Not your technique. Not your fitness. Something underneath. Something nobody is coaching.

Or you’re bowling. First spell is going. You’re on the right length. The batter is uncomfortable. Then one over goes for 12. A top edge. A misfield. One that sat up.

And that’s the moment you cannot find that spot anymore.

You try to breathe. Visualise. Self-talk. It hasn’t worked as well as you’d like.

That’s because you carry moments.

In the nets there are no consequences. The game is different. It’s obvious why you play differently — and it is completely fixable once someone names what is actually happening.

What most players call it

Nerves. Form. One of those days.

It is almost never any of those. Underneath every problem a cricketer brings, there are three patterns — and HeyNik knows which one is running.

01

Nets to game day

You drive it on Tuesday and leave the same ball on Saturday. The gap between the player at training and the player in the middle. That gap has a cause, and it can be closed.

02

Overthinking

You know exactly what to do. Then the moment matters and your head gets involved. Second-guessing. Freezing. Too many things to think about and no way to narrow it down.

03

Am I good enough

Form, selection, confidence that moves with the scoreboard. Even Kohli named it in an interview. It has always been the work. That is the pattern.

Every problem. Named.

Bring it how you’d say it to a teammate.

No forms. No dropdowns. No library of videos you will never open. You say what happened, and you get the answer Nik would give a player sitting in front of him.

You

“My first ball is a loosener.”

HeyNik

If you treat it as a loosener you’ve decided it doesn’t count before it’s bowled. That’s a decision, not a habit. Let’s change what you walk out carrying.

You

“I replay the last ball.”

HeyNik

The last one is gone and the next one hasn’t happened. What you need is a reset quick enough to actually use between deliveries. We can build you one.

You

“My confidence moves with my scores.”

HeyNik

If it’s built on results it will always move with them. Let’s put it on something that doesn’t shift every time the scoreboard does.

You

“I miss my yorker when it counts.”

HeyNik

It’s there in the nets, so the ball isn’t the problem. What changes at the death is what you’re thinking about as you let it go. That’s the bit we work on.

You

“Dropped means I’m done.”

HeyNik

It feels permanent because who you are and how you’re selected have become the same thing. They’re not. Let’s separate them and put the time you’ve been given to work.

You

“One bad game ruins the next few weeks.”

HeyNik

It stays because it was never properly closed off. A review that actually finishes the thought will let the next game start clean.

Built on
The Badkundri
Method™
Working with cricketers10+ years
In the last 12 months165+ cricketers
Levels coachedJunior to professional
Patterns underneathThree
One-to-one coachingFully booked
Nik Badkundri — the coach behind it

I don’t sell motivation. I build frameworks.

Nik Badkundri works with cricketers who are good enough. Who have always been good enough. And who can’t work out why that stops mattering when the game gets important.

Ten plus years. 165+ cricketers in the last twelve months alone, across every level. The pattern underneath is almost always the same.

The Badkundri Method™ is that body of work — the questions he asks, the way he reads a performance problem, and the frameworks he builds to fix it. HeyNik is that method, made available to every cricketer who can’t get a seat in the room.

What players tell Nik

In their own words.

Messages Nik has received from players and parents after working through the Badkundri Method™. The same frameworks are inside HeyNik.

128*off 415 balls
“I wasn’t thinking about the scoreboard. I was just repeating what we’d trained.”
State-contracted batter · MPI™ 32 → 78

From that guy who looked like the star in the nets but couldn’t bring it into games consistently, to producing two match-winning knocks back to back and taking the team to the finals. It honestly feels like I am a different player altogether.

Club batter · after two weeks

Because of the work we did, I could finally use the gear I dropped $3K+ on. I spent all that money on bats, gear, training, thinking that was the thing that would take me to the next level. I just wish I started this two years ago.

Batter · end of season

Had a great game yesterday and I was honestly amazed with the way worksheet 1 and 2 combined to help me win the quarter final for my team. It almost felt scripted.

Player · quarter-final

After spending hundreds on cheap $47 courses trying to figure it out, you had the answer in less than 60 seconds.

Player

The laser-sharp clarity I have and the lack of overthinking has been a big tick for me in the pre-season and going into the season.

Player · pre-season

She looked like herself again at the crease.

Parent of a 16-year-old · now with the NSW Breakers

Names withheld for privacy. Individual results; every player’s journey is different.

For parents

You’ve watched them go quiet on the drive home.

Their batting gets coached every week. Their bowling gets coached every week. The part that decides what actually happens on Saturday gets a pat on the back and “just back yourself”.

Someone real behind it

Not an app built by a tech company with a sports skin on it. This is one coach’s decade of work with cricketers from juniors through to professional contracts, and he can see what your child is working through.

What it costs, plainly

One-to-one mental performance coaching runs into the hundreds per session and is usually fully booked. A month of HeyNik costs less than half of one session, it is there every day in between, and the first 2 days are free.

Safe by design

Performance coaching only, never therapy. If something a player raises needs more than that, they are told so directly and pointed to real support rather than worksheeted through it. Their data is never sold and never shared with advertisers.

Why this exists
Not everyone can afford to sit in a room with a coach. That shouldn’t decide who gets to play their best.

The players who need this most are usually the ones furthest from it. Elite programs have specialists on staff. Everyone else gets told to relax and back themselves.

Nik’s mission is to make the mental side of cricket accessible to every cricketer who wants it, wherever they play and whatever they earn. HeyNik is the first step in that.

— Nik
Before you ask

The honest answers.

Is this therapy?
No. It is mental performance coaching for cricket, built from Nik’s real coaching work and focused on your game. It is not a substitute for therapy or mental-health treatment. If something you raise needs more than performance coaching, you will be told so directly and pointed toward the right support.
Is it just ChatGPT with a cricket prompt?
No. It works from The Badkundri Method™ and the problems Nik has actually coached, not generic advice scraped off the internet. If what you bring sits outside cricket performance, it will tell you rather than guess.
What if my problem isn’t one of the ones listed?
Say it however you’d say it to a teammate. Underneath the named problems there are three patterns, and almost everything a cricketer brings runs on one of them. HeyNik works out which, then works it through with you.
What age is it for?
Cricketers from 13 up, at any level from junior and club through to representative and professional. Parents are welcome to go through it first.
What happens to my data?
It is never sold and never shared with advertisers. What you work through is used to help you and to let Nik see where players keep getting stuck. The full privacy policy is at the bottom of this page.
Is it open now?
Yes. HeyNik is open to everyone. The first 25 people to join become founding members: 2 days free, then $30 a week, locked in for as long as they stay, plus a Game Plan 1:1 with Nik. After the 25, it’s $40 a week.
How does the 2-day free trial work?
You set up your account and add a card, and nothing is charged for the first 2 days. If you stay, it rolls into a founding membership at $30 a week, locked in for as long as you stay. Founding spots are limited to the first 25; after that the price is $40 a week. Cancel any time in the first 2 days and you won’t be charged. There’s no lock-in after that either.
Now open

HeyNik solves any cricket problem.
Ready to try it?

2 days free. Then $30 a week as a founding member, locked in for as long as you stay. Only 25 founding spots.

Cancel in the first 2 days and you won’t be charged. $40 a week after the founding spots are gone.

Privacy PolicyHow we handle your information
Last updated 4 October 2026

1. Who we are

This website and HeyNik are operated by The Performance Mindset, Victoria, Australia. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean that company. We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

2. What we collect

  • What you give us. Your name and email address when you sign up or ask us to send you details, and your answers to the optional questions we ask — whether you play, coach or are the parent of a cricketer, the level of cricket involved, and the part of your game you would most like to work on.
  • What we collect automatically. Your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view and how you arrived here, through cookies and similar technologies.
  • What advertising platforms pass to us. If you joined through a form on Facebook or Instagram, Meta gives us the name and email address on your account together with your answers.

We do not ask for payment card details, government identifiers or health information through this page, and we do not want you to send them to us.

3. Why we collect it

  • To set up and run your HeyNik account, and to send you the details you ask for
  • To send you information about HeyNik, which you can stop at any time
  • To understand which advertising is working, and to improve the product and this site
  • To meet our legal and record-keeping obligations

4. Marketing emails

Leaving your email address means consenting to us emailing you about HeyNik. Every email we send identifies who it is from and carries an unsubscribe link that works. Unsubscribe at any time and we stop. We will not pass your address to anyone else to market to you.

5. Who we share it with

We share personal information with the service providers who help us operate, and only so far as they need it to do that job:

  • Meta Platforms — advertising and lead forms
  • HighLevel (LeadConnector) — email delivery and contact management
  • Stripe — payments, taken inside the HeyNik app
  • Netlify — hosting this site

Some of these providers store information outside Australia, including in the United States. By using this site you consent to that overseas disclosure. We do not sell personal information to anyone.

6. Cookies and tracking

We use the Meta Pixel and similar tools to measure our advertising and understand how this site is used. You can block or clear cookies in your browser settings, and you can manage ad personalisation in your Facebook or Instagram settings. Blocking cookies will not stop you signing up.

7. Young people

HeyNik is built for cricketers aged 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. Advertising for HeyNik is directed only at people aged 18 and over. Players under 16 need a parent or guardian to approve their account. If you believe we hold information about a child that should not have been collected, contact us and we will delete it.

8. Security and how long we keep it

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, loss, and unauthorised access or disclosure. We keep your information until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, and for a reasonable period after that where we need it for legal or record-keeping reasons.

9. Access, correction and deletion

You can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email hello@heynik.co and we will respond within a reasonable time. There is no charge for a straightforward request.

10. Complaints

If you think we have mishandled your personal information, contact us first at hello@heynik.co so we can try to put it right. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au or on 1300 363 992.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version is always on this page, with the date it was last updated shown at the top.

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