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How easy is it to change cricket skills?

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Don't tell anyone, but I have a little dream.

I dream of taking up leg spin. I admire the art and, frankly, you can go on a lot longer bowling spin than you can wicketkeeping.

Specialist fielding: Introduction

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One of the hallmarks of a well-drilled team is having fielders in specialist positions. This works because fielders can work on the specific skills they need in practice and become better in those areas.

But what are the skills and tactics of each fielding position that need to be worked on?

In this series of articles we will show you.

Cricket Show 93: Adrian Shaw on how to have an outstanding season

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PitchVision Academy Cricket ShowHaving a successful club season doesn’t just happen by luck.

Just a warning...

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Update: due to huge demand, registrations for PitchVision Academy Live! Are now closed.

Slots are filling up fast for PitchVision Academy Live!, so if you are thinking of coming along to the Oval in London on the evening of August 27th for the world’s first interactive coaching event, now is the time to act.

The 6 traits of first team cricketers

Cricket club selection meetings always bring up controversy.

In every club that puts out more than one team, there is bound to be the fringe player who splits the committee. In my club this is especially true of young players looking to break into the first XI.

I’ve sat on selection committee all this season and one of the qualifiers for whether a player is given a chance or not is if he ‘looks like a first team player’.

Why your nets are stopping you improving

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 When a side are doing badly it’s inevitable that extra nets are put on.

The logic is clear: If you practice you get better. Practice, as they say, makes perfect.

But if you were designing a way to practice to get better based on what we know about skill development, traditional nets are about as useful as bat with a hole in the middle.

Nets don’t work to get you better because they don’t fill the fundamentals of improving.

Why you shouldn’t ‘take the positives’ from a loss

This is a guest article from Laurie Ward

In modern cricket-speak, losing captains are quick to say “we will take the positives from this game” when they have been played off the park.

But do they really? Or is it just fluff for the media?

In reality the team and coach will look at what went wrong in the cold light of day and then work hard to put things right.

Ask the Readers: Do you play in the Spirit of Cricket

An incident in the 2010 England-Pakistan Test series got me wondering how you play your games. Do you play in the Spirit of Cricket?

Leave a comment and let me know how hard you play.

Cricket Show 92: The secrets of batting technique

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Gary Palmer is the guest on this week’s show as we look at the technique of ailing Englishman Alastair Cook. Find out what Gary’s advice is to the young opener and pick up some of your own tips.

What can be learned about batting from a bat maker with 50 years experience?

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What do you think of when you think of a Batmaker?

It’s one of those jobs that seem to come from a bygone age. Like Candlestick Maker.  Surely all bats are made by a machine in one big factory in Pakistan these days?

Not true.

The bat making art is alive and well in England and is producing handmade willow for cricketers.