Fielding Drills: Sidearm vs. Katchet
Here's a drill to practice your infield stopping and catching skills, and test them to the limit!
12 Ways to Have a Better Net: Fit, Focused and More Runs
As you know by now, nets are one area where you can improve how you train. How do you do it?
Khyati Gulani: Preventing Injuries in Women's Cricket
This is a guest article from new contributor, Khyati Gulani. Khyati is an ex-cricketer now coaching state and academy cricket in Delhi.
Women cricketers are more prone to injury than men.
Use Your Honours Board to Score More Runs in Less Time
Rotating the strike is the most unglamorous and under-appreciated skill in batting. You know you need to improve it but you never work on it. How do you solve the problem?
How to Bowl Perfect Line and Length
Let me ask you something; how much better a bowler would you be if you could hit a perfect line and length?
It's a challenge that takes a lifetime to master, and a road that is littered with distractions.
Fielding Drills: 4 Stump warm up
This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.
Purpose: To act as a warm up drill that practices every ground fielding skill required in a match. Each stump is a different skill to execute.
Improve Your Batting Against Spin by Changing Length
This is a guest article from Fish Hoek Cricket Club Head Coach, Jamie Rood
I run spin sessions by throwing off spinners to a 5/4 leg side biased field. We have a slip catching and two fielders out at square leg and deep midwicket. Everyone else is in the ring.
In one particular session, I was working with Kegan, an U16 batsman who enjoys working the ball into the leg side and picking it up over mid-wicket. Here's what we did.
Put a Ring on it: How to Grow a Committed Cricket Team
Have you ever been frustrated by the commitment and motivation of your cricket team? Do you think, like Beyoncé, if they like it they should “put a ring on it?”
Improve Your Spin Bowling with Better Hip to Shoulder Separation
This is a guest article from Max Andrews
“Hip to shoulder separation” is one of the most important movements in generating spin and velocity.
Catching Drill Progression for Better Technique and Hand to Eye Skills
Improve your catching technique and hand-eye skills with this simple, insanely effective, drill progression.
Using the Katchet ramp you can do a lot of work in a very short time to turn your basic skills into world-class basics. Practice is often touted as the main difference between "good" and "great". Simple drilsl like this take you from where you are to stellar levels.
