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Cricket Show 43: Fast bowling tips (with Ian Pont)

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Ian Pont takes centre stage this week as we feature the fast bowling guru answering your questions on how to bowl with pace and accuracy. Kevin discusses his palns for the coming summer and David watches the rain sheet down as another game is called off.

Your questions this week include:

To Throw or Not to Throw? That Is the Question

Making a quick decision to throw can be the difference between a run out and a stolen single.

But it's never quite that simple is it?

Even if you are a dead-eye when throwing at the stumps, it's possible to give away overthrows and face the wrath of your "double teapot" captain and bowler.

Ask the coaches: Your answers

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A little while back we posted a question to the coaches who read miCricketCoach: How do you stop bowling down the leg side?

We came up with some solutions, asked you to rate them and make some suggestions of your own. Which you did. Here is a selection of some of the answers we heard about from coaches out there in the real world.

Classic bowling dismissals: In swing

This article is part of the 'Classic bowling dismissals' series. To go to the start, click here.

Often thought of as the easier type of swing bowling, the inswinger can be a devastating weapon when used effectively.

When bowling to a right-handed batsmen, here are the classic ways to get a wicket:

Do you trust your hunches?

You have never seen him before, but there is something not quite right about the batsman as he takes his guard.

You can't put your finger on quite what it is, but it's clear something doesn't add up.

He plays a couple of balls out and still something nags at you about him. You glance at the 'keeper and he nods his head towards the new man at the crease. Whatever it is, he has seen it too.

Cricket Show 42: Nutrition for cricket

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Lay the table as this week we are talking about food and cricket. It's an often overlooked but important part of everyone's game.

Laws of Cricket: Unusual signals and six leg byes?

This edition of Laws of Cricket, in association with the International Institute of Cricket Umpiring and Scoring, covers some more tricky questions of the Laws.

How you can instantly be a better cricket coach

A long time ago in another life I was a fitness instructor at a big gym.

Even back in the late 90's people would tell me at their first sessions that they didn't want to get too bulky. They wanted to tone up. As we know, it's all but impossible to accidentally get too big.

What's this got to do with cricket coaching?

How professional fast bowlers warm up for cricket

To celebrate the new new warm up video on the strength and conditioning for cricket course on PitchVision Academy, we are putting a portion of it on miCricketCoach.

The video, filmed at English Test venue the SWALEC Stadium, features Glamorgan CCC Strength Coach Rob Ahmun demonstrating the warm up he puts his professional fast bowlers through before play:

 

Want to become a professional cricketer? CCM Academy is taking enrolments

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I know a lot of young players reading this have dreams of becoming a full-time cricketer. Perhaps you are one of them (or perhaps you are a hopeful coach or parent). If so, this post is for you.

My question is this: are you giving yourself the best chance of making it as a professional?