This series is part of the Cricket Fitness Workouts monthly series. For the full list, click here.

Everyone knows how important it is to be fit as a cricketer. Modern Indian professionals now train in the gym 3-4 times a week regularly. Even the old school stalwart Rahul Dravid once said "It's important to stay and look fit to be able to play for the country."

And The Wall is absolutely right.

This week’s winner of the Cricket Show podcast question competition is Jeremy. He wins a free coaching course from PitchVision Academy.

"Having recently had exposure to the Cricket Australia coaching set up I was amazed by the almost complete focus on implicit coaching. While I can understand the benefits for more established cricketers, coaching young lads from scratch is extremely difficult without a certain amount of explicit instruction. What is your view? Balance?"

Listen to the panel’s answer to his question here.

To enter your own question for the chance to win your choice of online coaching course send your questions in here. 

This summer at Millfield School we ran an experiment in improving the power hitting of the 1st XI players.

It was a new concept to us, and I wanted to see how well it would work. Here is what we did; and what we found out on the way.

We introduced “Back-loading” and played around with shifting weight in the set up as a batter waits for the bowler to release the ball.

With India becoming Under-19 World Champions alongside the senior win, we look at the future of Indian cricket and the influence of the IPL. Plus there is follow up on taking stumpings, and a quickfire comparison the chances of success for a young player in a full member nation vs. affiliate countries.

We also open the mailbag and answer questions on spinning the ball from a leg spinner, and implicit vs. explicit coaching.

The no ball is the bane of the fast bowler. Just ask Sreesanth, who is infamous for overstepping.

You charge in, trying to exert every last ounce of pace onto the ball, finally get the edge you want into the keeper's gloves.

And the umpire calls the dread two words; "no ball!"

The worst part of it is that although you only have yourself to blame, you have no idea how it happened.

It's a terrible habit, but like all habits it can be broken.

This interactive diagram is part of a series from Ryan Maron's Cricket School of Excellence. This time we look at back foot defence. To see Ryan's previous tips, click here.

Ryan Maron - the former Western Province player - is one of South Africa’s leading coaches, running his famous Cricket School of Excellence in Cape Town for over 10 years as well as being Head coach of the University of Cape Town.

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here. 

Here is a drill that provides huge gains in distance, power, placement and tactical awareness for all of your batters.

The inspiration comes from the golf driving range. It got me thinking about how we could apply a similar concept to the practice of batting skills.

Here is the range driving drill.

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This week the team tackle 100mph bowling, causing and stopping a batting collapse, and quick decision-making as captain.

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here.

Finger spinners spin with their fingers. And so, they cannot generate as much spin as a leggies.