David Hinchliffe's Articles | Cricket coaching, fitness and tips

Quick Tip: Boost Your Cricket by Planning Your Own Training Session

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Chances are your coach plans your sessions for you. What's stopping you from doing it yourself?

How to Become a Cricketer: What Are Your Chances?

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How to Become A CricketerYou're desperate to become a cricketer.

You watch your heroes on TV and dream of playing alongside them. You play your heart out in matches and seek that chance to show your ability. You practice as much as you can, even training alone when there is no one else to train with you.

Like and Share Your Cricket Videos with the PitchVision App

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The PitchVision app not only allows you to shoot and edit your cricket videos, it also lets you show off your skills to your mates with the like and share options.

This video shows you how the features work and how you can become a cricket legend with your friends and followers.

Batting Tactics: How to Attack in Club and School Cricket

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In one day cricket, the tactic used to be to play yourself in early, knock the ball around in the middle overs and smash it at the end. Nowadays, the really powerful teams are able to attack throughout the innings.

Video: PitchVision App Gives You Drawing and Editing Tools at Your Nets

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Here's how to use the PitchVision app to draw lines and coach live at your next session. You can also edit video as soon as you have taken it to really highlight your point.

Super Strengths: Why It's OK to Ignore Your Cricket Weaknesses to Become a Cricketer

When you go to nets you work on bringing up your weaknesses. But what if your time is better spent on your strengths?

This is what modern cricketers and coaches call "super strengths".

Quick Tip: Use Averages to Set Realistic Tactics

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I was shocked by what I saw when I checked my local cricket league averages recently.

If you had asked me how many players had scored over 500 runs or taken over 30 wickets I would have guessed at least a dozen. That is the standard of a "decent" club cricketer in my idle mind.

Video: How to Make Cricket Nets More Fun and Competitive

Net games are easy to add to any standard net session. They make practice more fun and improve standards.

In this video you can find three simple ways to up the competitive part of nets.

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Cricket Tips: Combining Video with A Bowling Machine Boosts Performance

We all know how good a bowling machine is for improving batting technique. But just using it to hit balls is not the best way. That's where a good review and PitchVision's PV/VIDEO comes in.

This video shows you how you can use video analysis for instant feedback on your bowling machine session. This allows you to tap into the proven power of deliberate practice and effective review.

 

Quick Tip: The Two Best Ways to Use A Bowling Machine

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A bowling machine is not a bowler, so you have to practice with one differently. There are two ways to get the most from a bowling machine session.