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4 Ways Television Has Changed Club Cricket

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TV has a direct influence on club cricket.

I was playing a game not long after the review system was introduced to Test matches. Without TV cameras and technology at our game there was no chance of a review. Yet at the first dodgy LBW decision the first slip turned to me and made the now familiar T sign. We both quietly giggled and hope the umpire hadn’t seen the dissent.

That story tells me all I need to know about how TV has changed how we approach cricket, even when we don’t have cameras and Hawkeye at our games.

Do You Make These 4 Fitness Mistakes Every Summer?

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We all recognise the importance of fitness in our lives. It’s not just about being better on the cricket field. Regular training makes you healthier and, let’s face it, damn good looking.

Yet fitness is so often the cause of mistakes that lead to the opposite: weaker, more injury-prone, run down and looking awful.

Meet the Watsonian CC Players (and Take a Sneak Peak at the Ground)

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By now, like me, you will have adopted Watsonian CC as your 2nd team and willing them to success as well as learning a few things along the way (Leave a comment here if you are, I'd love to see the readers backing the side).

Fielding Drills: Triangles

This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Purpose: To add a conditioning aspect to the practice and throwing and backing up.

How to Improve Your Batting Shot Selection: Cover Drive

This article is part of the “How to Improve Your Batting Shot Selection” series. To see the full list of shots click here.

With its stylish flourish, the cover drive will always get your team-mates roaring “shot!” as you blaze the ball away. Yet, it’s a paradox of a shot.

You Don’t Need Every Variation to Be an Excellent Spin Bowler

Mushtaq Ahmed, Graeme Swann, Syd Barnes and Shane Warne: Each player a unique and world-class spin bowler of his time.

None of them used every variation in the book.

They didn’t need them all. They maintain their deception by varying the angle of spin within a small region either side of their stock delivery.

Subtle and devastating.

Cricket Show 106: Become a ‘Sonian

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How to Improve Your Batting Shot Selection: Front Foot On Drive

This article is part of the “How to Improve Your Batting Shot Selection” series. To see the full list of shots click here.

The on drive is the best shot in the book.

The crowd-pleasing cover drive gets all the glamour and attention. Meanwhile really good batsmen know that the on drive is a far more useful shot.

How to Improve Your Batting Shot Selection: Introduction

Look in the old-fashioned coaching book gathering dust on your shelf and you will see the shot selection mantras. If you have batted at any level you know that shot selection is way more nuanced.

The best cricketers appear to have two or more shots to every ball.

They know exactly when to use these shots and when to cut them out. Tendulkar famously scored 241 without a cover drive (he thought it was too risky to play).

Fielding Drills: Fast Feet

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This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Purpose: Develop the ability to accelerate, decelerate and change direction while ground fielding a ball.

Description: 4 cones are set out in a square. The fielder has to run in a figure of eight touching each cone and fielding/returning the balls fed by the coach in the order show in the diagrams.