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Do you want to grow your cricket? Then PitchVision is the home of online coaching and self-improvement in the game. Bring your "growth mindset" to better technique, better tactics, more skill and a winning team. All these things are possible if you play the game to improve rather than prove.

Read, watch, listen, work, improve. That's the PitchVision way.

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Exercises to Bowl Faster: Ab Wheel Rollouts

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Ask any Strength Coach about the fitness needs of fast bowlers and they will all quickly start talking about the core.

The term is loose, but it broadly means your "midsection". It is vital for you to be strong and stable in that area if you are looking to bowl fast, prevent injury or both.

And who isn't?

Of course, core training can et complex with a lot of differing theories so it gets confusing quickly.

Do you do crunches or not? Are your hamstrings part of the core? What about this "anti-rotation" buzz word you have heard?

Cricket Show 194: Competition Winner

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This week's winner of the Cricket Show podcast question competition is Del. He wins a free coaching course from PitchVision Academy.

The winning question was:

"At what time in the day would you say it was too late to train a cricketer of the age of 13? Our club will have sessions at 8:00-9:30 on a Sunday night. I think this is too late not only as he has school but is there any problems that could arise to injury?"

Listen to the panels answer to his question here

 

To enter your own question for the chance to win your choice of online coaching course send your questions in here.

Are You Bowling the Right Line for Spin Success?

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here.

You will hear commentators talk about bowling in channels and lines and that good bowlers should look to bowl good lines.

This is true, but not the whole story.

Cricket Show: Series 4, Episode 1

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The 4th season Cricket Show kicks off with a blast into 2013, and it's set to be the best series yet as we head towards our 200th show.

Burners, David Hinchliffe and Mark Garaway talk about the real way to make changes and why resolutions are not the best place to start. But it is a new year and people's minds turn to fitness so we also answer your questions on resistance bands and training late at night.

Remember, you can participate in the show, improve your cricket and win a prize!

How Club Mentors Launch International Careers

In my first ever article I wrote about my early coaching influences which started at Ventnor Cricket Club on the Isle of Wight.

On Christmas Day I heard the news that one of those mentors from VCC had sadly passed away earlier that morning.

Malcolm Sketchley was one of my heroes.

3 Lies India's Cricketers Like to Tell

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We look to our heroes for advice, and group has more hero worship than Indian cricketers. How could they lie to their fans?

Be it mis-information, spin or taken out of context, these are the truisms taken as gospel by the fans that, in fact, won't help your game if you are trying to emulate the stars:

Quick Tip: Home Exercises for Teenage Fast Bowlers

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Ashish asked a question I think a lot of young fast bowlers wonder,

"What are some good bowling exercises for teenage fast bowlers to do at home? I heard fast bowlers need a strong core, shoulders, arms and legs."

Ashish has heard right in that bowlers need strong everything!

How to Bowl Spin on a Flat Pitch

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here

Why would anyone prepare pitches that do not take any spin?

It's a great loss for the game when the beauty of spin bowling is neutralised by flat pitches. It is a modern day trend at the top level cricket that will hopefully change.

Don't Make This Mistake in Your Quest for Cricket Fitness

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The new year brings new hopes for getting fit, and for cricketers that means very specific things: run faster, bow faster, hit harder, throw longer, keep up stamina and prevent injuries.

All worthy aims of course, but there is a trap waiting. If you fall in you can forget about your dreams of improved fitness this year.

What is this trap?

Get Fit For Cricket with One Email

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There is no doubt that fitness is crucial to the modern cricketer to improve performance and prevent injury. The benefits are well proven.

But fitness is also a minefield.

There is so much information available yet much of it is at best no benefit and at worst dangerous.

That's why you should get the PitchVision Academy newsletter.

The weekly email cuts through the rubbish and takes you straight to the tips, ideas and programmes that actually work to help you reach your goals for the year.