This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Purpose: To develop speed, agility and ball handling skills in a pressure situation

What spin bowler hasn't heard these clichés in his cricketing career?

"Toss it up" the young spin bowler is so often told. "You've got to flight the ball, give it some air, and get it above the batsman's eye line".

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 Being a consistent cricketer isn’t always as good as we imagine.

As decent level players we search for better consistency. We have had good performances in the past. We dream the purple patches will come again. Every shot you play beats the in-field and every ball you bowl finds the outside edge to a pair of safe hands.

To celebrate the release of the latest eBook on PitchVision Academy I’m offering it to you, dear PitchVision Academy reader, at an introductory offer of 50% off.

The eBook is based on the real-life experiences of club cricketers who struggle with making preseason training work for them. It offers a series of practical tips and advice that have been proven (by real life coaches and players) to work at club level.

This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Purpose: Perform the underarm throw fielding skill under the pressure of a race between two teams.

Waltham St Lawrence in the leafy English county of Berkshire is not a place you expect to find a redefinition of cricket. Somehow, that’s exactly what has happened.

It’s been a few days since we made the changes to PitchVision Academy, and I wanted to take a moment to say a quiet “thank you” to you.

You the reader, you the listener to the podcast, you the member of PitchVision Academy and everyone else like you are the reason we work so passionately on the site. Your positive feedback about the changes has helped us get through the tricky parts and made most of it a lot of fun.

In another guest article, club left arm spinner AB talks us through exactly where to land the ball to cause maximum damage to batsmen’s averages.

We all know the key to top quality spin bowling is to bowl a consistent line and length. But what does that actually mean?

First we need to figure out where is the best length to bowl.

We want a length that is full enough that the batsman is forced to come forward, but not so full that he is able to reach the ball on the half volley without mis-hitting it.

Do you bowl or coach leg spin? Do you want to improve your skills?

If you said ‘yes’ to that you want to act fast because I’m about to close both offers of free leg spin advice.

As you know I have been giving away free leg spin videos and articles to celebrate the launch of online coaching courses by Mohammed Haroon, our leg spin coach.

But we can’t do it forever so we are giving you a last chance to:

Let me be the first to welcome you to the exciting new PitchVision Academy pages, come in, take a look around and make yourself at home.

As you know, we have had the virtual decorators in to give the place a full makeover (if you are reading this in an RSS feed or email you can click here to check out our pimped ride).