I have been coaching and playing cricket for decades. Every year I come across the same frustrating attitudes that stop people reaching their potential.

It all happens long before the season starts. People mess up their pre-season training and simply never recover when the weather improves.

If only they realised what they were saying and took positive action. It’s time we changed things for the better and started giving you the summer you deserve by giving you a preseason to be proud of.

These myths drive me mad, yet I hear them every preseason nets.

As you know, the Cricket Show is on a Christmas and New Year break, but that doesn’t mean the team are resting.

We are busy getting the new season ready for January 13^th and we need your questions.

The first show back will have a couple of surprises – so subscribe for free to get it when it’s out – and will be themed around getting ahead at preseason training.

What’s more traditional than an end of year review of the season?

All good teams do it, so all good coaching websites should too. Here are the most popular and relevant posts of the last 12 months here at PitchVision Academy.

It’s been a stellar year, thanks for coming along.

The Case Study

There are two types of fielders; people who are allowed to field in the slips and those who aren’t.

This is more down to the fielder’s reactions that their ability to catch.

The edge that flies straight into the body is regulation for the slip fielder, but many club and Academy cricketers struggle to react to catches either side of their body simply because of the variation in the pitch.

The more variation in the pitch the greater variation in the carrying edge.

It’s junior fielding lesson number two: walking in with the bowler.

Unfortunately, you often see a least one fielder in every side who doesn’t do it; and it makes a massive difference.

But you can go one better than walking in; you can trot in.

Walking in keeps momentum going forward.  Move continually towards the ball prevents a quick single or allows you to cut the firmly struck ball off before it is past you.

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

My question is regarding bowling; kindly inform me a pace bowlers activities like running (how many kilometers need to run) and warm ups plus gym activities (how I can improve my arm or shoulder power to deliver fast like 150kmph).

Listen to the panel’s answer to his question here.

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

Hayden is a year 8 student on New Zealand’s North Island. For his assignment he has been asked to do on a seminar on a career of our choice. He chose a cricket player.

But to make it work he needs some more information. So I thought the community of cricket nuts at PitchVision Academy could help.

It’s a simple calculation:

Desmond Haynes was a world-class batsman. He is a world-class coach. The unique skills he can teach are invaluable to any player (or coach) with the desire to improve.

But you will never get to have coaching from him.

This video is the final free preview of the online coaching course Batting Lion: the Desmond Haynes Masterclass.

Everyone thinks that the best way to iron out mistakes is to get in the nets and work on your flaws.