We tend to ask for help when we need it; a technical flaw, a tactical error of judgement we don't want to repeat, ways to lose weight. Whatever.

Yet, help is not just about removing negatives to stop the pain of failure. It's also about looking at things in a new way and boosting your game in ways you had not even considered.

Here's how you can check to see if your hunches are right.

Good cricket coaches have good hunches. They can sense something and make swift changes based on their experience and skill. That's the art of coaching. But hunches can also be wrong, or biased. That's where you can use data to back up your hunch, or find out if it's wrong.

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Isn't it strange that naturally talented cricketers always talk about how hard they work?

Good batsman turn starts into hundreds. Anyone can get out early in an innings, but once your eye is in your goal is to get a big score.

Yet how many players do you see getting a good-looking 30 before falling to a loose shot? The art of the long innings is waning in the crash-bash Twenty20 world.

Choosing the right shots for the situation

This is a guest article from Max Andrews

Bracing up with your front leg after front foot landing is absolutely critical for exploiting maximum control, speed and spin.

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

The winning question was,

Welcome to the PV/VIDEO Digest, your highlights summary of the weeks best videos from PitchVision Interactive

You can share these videos by email or onto facebook, and post your comments right here: From serious analysis to Friday fun. Here are the top videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

You don't need to be a quick runner to be a quick fielder, or to steal a quick single.

Of course, it helps to be as rapid as a sprinter but how many professional cricketers do you think can do a 100m in a decent time? I'll tell you now. Not many.

Technology can easily be used for all levels of cricketer. Take a look at this video, where PitchVision was used with an occasional batsman to make almost instant improvements.

This video shows you don't need to be a talented, skilled cricket player to make improvements. Technology can work for you even if you have had no formal coaching before and play two pickup games a year.