Having a successful club season doesn’t just happen by luck.

Global bat-maker Gray-Nicolls invited PitchVision Academy down to the UK bat factory in East Sussex this week. The show comes direct from the factory with the sound of bats being hand made in the background.

Us cricketers love our bats, they are very personal to us, and there is a lot that goes into choosing and looking after the sacred willow.

So in this interview I grill Ian about how to buy, knock in and look after your blade.

The show retains its shorter format this week as we look in detail at the question of how to deal with a bad captain.

Featuring an interview with England Women's prospect Catherine Dalton, the show this week has a different format.

If you are a regular listener you will be used to half hour shows with a coaches answering your questions. This week the show is 10 minutes long and is dedicated to the interview with Cath.

It may seem like the cricket show has somehow become obsessed with declarations.

Yet again we discuss when is a good time to declare an innings and come up with some interesting stats to back up our argument.

If you are not so bothered with all the declaration chat, we still answer your questions about:

The bones of David's game are picked over as we discuss the art of a good declaration. It turns out that in the heat of battle sometimes you can forget your principles.

Should David have declared earlier? Listen in to find out.

We also answer your questions on a range of topics including:

Due to last week's epic fail we felt guilty enough to extend this week's edition of the Cricket Show to 41 minutes to try and beg your forgiveness.

This week's PitchVision Academy Cricket Show has been cancelled.

Sadly the show had some technical difficulties meaning we could only record about 5 minutes of an introduction to the show but nothing more.

If you want your PitchVision Academy Cricket Show fix, the archive is still available for free from here.

It's a good chance to catch up on old shows where the cricket coaching advice is just as relevant now as it was then.

Former Glamorgan player and coach Adrian Shaw joins us on the show this week.

Adrian is the latest coach to join the esteemed PitchVision Academy panel and has developed a course called "The Game Plan: How to Build A Winning Cricket Team".