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PitchVision Academy: The Countdown to Summer starts here

PitchVision Academy is world's most comprehensive guide to playing or coaching better cricket. Click here to find out more about it.

For readers and listeners in England and Northern Hemisphere right now is an exciting time. New kit is getting unpacked and equipment is being dusted down in annual anticipation of nets starting again. Hopes are high.

As players and coaches ourselves, we know how exciting this time is, and also how important it is to having a great season. That's why we are launching our great Countdown to Summer 2010 section.

The section contains forums, exclusive new content, a free newsletter (totally different from the existing one) and access to top class coaching both online and in real nets across the UK. In other words, you can't miss it if you are serious about becoming a better player or coach.

But don't worry if you are in Australia, India or anywhere else that is currently enjoying cricket weather, it's business as usual for the rest of PitchVision Academy; still the best guide to playing better cricket in all temperatures.

David Hinchliffe - Director of Coaching

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Release the Hounds!Bowlers win cricket matches. Because of this, the fast bowlers are a team within a team and need to put unrelenting pressure on the opposition.

In other words, you need to hunt as a pack.

What does a pack of fast bowlers look like?

When you think of a pack of fast bowlers the first thing that springs to mind is the great West Indian teams of the 1970's and 80's.

 

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miCricketCoach Show LogoGet your hankies ready as Kevin tells talks us through how his championship dreams were crushed at the weekend.

Don't worry though, we have plenty of more positive stuff to look at too. Gary Palmer answers another batting question and we rummage through the mailbag for more reader's questions.

 

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Morning cricketTo be a coach, you have to coach, right?
 
Not always.

Coaching isn't like filling a jug with water. Minds don't work by having information poured into them until they are full. For a start, jugs don't wonder if it's the right kind of water for their needs.

 

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DSCF1591Who wouldn't want to be streetwise with thoughts and plans at their fingertips?

How about this guy:

Raj is an opening batsman. He is a slow starter, but is able to score freely once he gets his feet moving. His coach has been helping him with some technical points.

Meanwhile his team-mates have been teasing him for his slow starts.

 

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Leicestershire v India, 1990Bowling is hard. At least when you bat and you are out you can hide in the pavilion, but when you bowl and are clattered for 3 boundaries in a row there is nowhere to hide. You have to finish the over.

No wonder the mind becomes cluttered with thoughts and plans when you stand at the top of the mark.

 

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Action de criquet, Wellington Firebirds - Northern KnightsBowling the last few overs of an innings is like being a Hollywood star. When everything goes well you are adored. Put one foot wrong and your embarrassment could not be more exposed.

For the starlets it's wearing the wrong dress at a premier, for you it's getting clouted for 20 in the final over of the match. Same difference. So how do you avoid the cricketing equivalent of appearing on Perez Hilton?

 

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miCricketCoach Show LogoOn the show this week David and Kevin chat about the ECBCA conference and bowling the opposition out for a below par score. Gary Palmer talks about an unusual guard and we answer your questions.

 

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Gary Palmer, the PitchVision Academy batting coach, takes fresh look at an old idea and finds out that you can be technically correct and score quickly. If you would like coaching from Gary, check out CCM Academy.

Playing straight with a checked drive in the 'V' from both front and back foot is something that all the great players have done well, and still do well today.

 

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The wicketkeeper's role is the source of many an analogy: The conductor, the sergeant-major and the cheerleader. But are these comparisons valuable, and which is the best?

Kent coach Paul Farbrace was drawing his ECBCA conference session to an end. The young wicketkeepers were excited and energetic in their drills while a host of coaches sat gripped to his every word.

 

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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.

 
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Cricket Basic Number 44: Turn the Tough Times to Your Advantage

44. When the going gets tough, tough teams take the winning advantage. When the game becomes do or die confidently encourage your team, concentrate on the basics and put the pressure onto the opposition.


 
 
 
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