This is a guest article from Waqas Zafar: video analyst, cricket enthusiast and computer scientist based in Lahore. Read more of his work by clicking here.

In this article, I’ll be analysing a seamer from a cricket club who has bowled a total of 368 balls in the indoor nets. The deliveries were tracked on PitchVision's PV/ONE ball tracking over the course of a preseason in the UK.

Have you been watching the BBL?

Admit it, you have played a shot you regret.

You have heard the advice about how to become a cricketer: Get into a good Academy and the top quality coaching will send your game to the next level.

Whether you are in Delhi, Manchester or Sydney, the word “Academy” is shorthand for “excellence” and “success”. So, how do you get in there in the first place?

Be it praise or criticism, tip or coaching, useful or useless; there are always people who want to give you cricket advice.

How do you sort the good from the bad?

In a world of many different and successful ways of playing cricket, how can we know what is good technique?

You love your phone. You can't possibly be parted from it. The problem is that Coach has banned phones from the nets.

What do you do?

It’s time to recognise the hard work of your coach. Nominate them for Coach of the Month!

At PitchVision we are all about coaching. We love to help players directly. We love to be involved in educating coaches. We also want to recognise the best coaches.

That’s where you come in.

Julian Wood is the PitchVision Coach of the Month.

He was chosen from dozens of nominations across the cricket world for his innovative work with attacking batting and power hitting.

Wood is a former Hampshire cricketer who moved into coaching after he retired. That’s not especially unusual, but he had an experience in America that changed everything.