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PitchVision: Improve Your Cricket

Do you want to grow your cricket? Then PitchVision is the home of online coaching and self-improvement in the game. Bring your "growth mindset" to better technique, better tactics, more skill and a winning team. All these things are possible if you play the game to improve rather than prove.

Read, watch, listen, work, improve. That's the PitchVision way.

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Cricket Show 13: Cricket fitness with Rob Ahmun

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Its cricket fitness special this week as I interview Glamorgan CCC Strength and Conditioning coach Rob Ahmun.

We cover a wide range of performance enhancing and injury prevention tips for cricketers of all levels including:

Field Settings: Medium pace, some movement, slow wicket, limited overs

This article is part of "The complete guide to cricket field settings" series.

This is a field with a single purpose but can be used by medium paced bowlers from the faster to the slower end. The purpose is to 'squeeze' a batsman who is looking to score runs by stopping the singles. It does away with attacking fielders to prevent the runs so is ideal in limited overs cricket.

Free video reveals how bowling 3 different lines can get you more wickets

There are a variety of different lines and lengths to bowl. Many club bowlers sick doggedly to the 'corridor of uncertainty'.

While this is a good area to bowl, Sticking to one line and length reduces you chance of wickets.

In this short video, I show you how to adapt your bowling to different situations.

This "situational" style bowling will give you better results.

Q&A: The PitchVision Academy cricket fitness plan

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Since I posted version 2 of the PitchVision Academy cricket fitness plan, a few questions have come up, mostly via email. I want to answer those questions today.

If you are using the plan and need to understand a little more about it you can leave your question here. I'll answer anything you need to know.

Diary of a future cricket star: Conditioning camp

miCricketCoach reader and cricketer is a 14 year old all rounder who has already played for the UAE Under 15's, Young Talent Cricket Academy and Talent Cricket Club. In the future he plans on a long and illustrious International career. Follow his progress here.

How important is a trigger movement to your batting success?

To move or to keep still, that is the question.

Almost every first class batsman has a trigger movement of some kind: That shuffle of the feet just before the bowler delivers the ball that gets you into position.  Yet the coaching books are adamant about keeping still.

Who is right?
 
Should you be using a trigger move?

As with all great cricketing questions the answer is 'it depends'.

Cricket Show 12: Making the most of practice

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Club cricket practice is not often used as well as it should be. Kevin and I come up with a few ways to run a more effective session than just netting alone.

We also discuss:

Field Settings: Right arm fast, inswing, new ball, fast wicket, long format

This article is part of "The complete guide to cricket field settings" series.

The fast bowling inswing field is even more rare than the outswing field, however it can be effective for a genuinely fast bowler (at club level that is around 80mph or 129kph) on a pitch that is very quick.

Cramping your style: How to stop cramp

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Are you a cramper? If you have ever cramped up on the cricket pitch you know how annoyingly distracting the pain can be from batting, bowling and fielding.

From experience I know it can put you off enough to get you out or prevent you from bowling.

Is your cricket training like the US election (and where is your vote going)?

Whether you are in the USA or not, the decision of the next President is a critical one. The whole world feels the effects.

In a similar way to the US citizens, your choice has a far reaching influence. Only in this case it's on your aims to succeed as a cricketer.