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

"As the new season approaches quickly, I want this pre-season to be better than previous ones. As a young (14 years) fast bowler, what are the best drills to improve my technique, and fitness wise, what kind of things should I be doing at this point?"

Listen to the panel’s 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. 

Hurry, it’s your last chance to send your switch to be in the hat to become The Big Switch prize winner!

Get your entry in now for your chance to win epic prizes including Adidas gear, online coaching from KP and a load more coaching from top names at PitchVision Academy.

It’s the perfect prize from any cricket nut who has ambitions to play better (and with some amazing kit)!

All you have to do to win is play a switch hit (it doesn’t even need to be any good, or even with a bat)!

Full competition details, including how to enter, can be found here. 

He keeps doing things that go against what you believe. And it’s not helping you, or the team that you captain, improve.

But you have to work together because winning teams are built on a strong relationship between the leaders.

You see, when most coaches and captains have a clash of personalities you soon find it’s not as epic as it first seems.

Kevin Pietersen reveals his secrets of playing spin bowling in this exclusive preview video of Keep Calm and Smash It.

KP has had great success against some world -class spinners. Warne and Muralitharan both suffered at the bat of the England man.

And now - in this video filmed at the Oval in London as part of KP’s online coaching course - you can learn how he does it so well.

If you want more videos and content from KP, head over to pitchvision.com/kp

In the classic movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones is faced with a problem.

Trying to make a run for it he is intercepted by an intimidating swordsman doing tricks with a sword that the hat and whip had no chance against.

Research has show the simple truth: the better the batsman you are the faster you pick up the line and length of the bowler.

But how do you do that so you can emulate the likes of Kevin Pietersen who seems to have so much time he knows what the bowler has bowled before the bowler even knows?

In the first of three articles on sweeping spinners, I look at the hard sweep: The ‘normal’ sweep where the ball is hit out towards the square leg boundary along the ground.

Many commentators are very critical on the shot and its use in any format of the game.

Here's your chance to win some incredible prizes AND prove you are the most creative batter in your cricket club, office, factory or bedroom!

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Every club at every level craves a genuinely quick, aggressive fast bowler. They win games.

Some say it’s the luck of the draw: talented young bowlers are born, not made.

No one is born to be a bowler. Every successful fast bowler in history had to learn how to bowl fast and accurately. That means you don’t have to wait for God-given talent to arrive at your club. You can mould the young players you already have into demons.

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

"I am an off spinner and I have a peculiar problem of bowling well to the batsmen of good quality but when I come across bowling to less skilled batters or tailenders I tend to bowl a bit waywardly. So David could you please tell me how i can come over this problem and bowl consistently and accurately to all types of batsmen irrespective of them reputation? " 

Listen to the panel’s 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.