Closing date: undiscloed

Doughty Coaching are looking for qualified cricket coaches to coach at cricket camps round the Buckinghamshire area in Easter and Summer. All coaches must have:

Knowledge of the game, an ECB Coaching Qualification, an up to date CRB Certificate, an up to date First Aid Certificate.

For further details contact: Doughtycoaching@aol.com

We all know the benefits of purposeful practice, for players and for cricket coaches at every level. If you have no purpose, you have no reason to be at practice.

But that is easy to forget sometimes, especially when a net is running itself and everyone is getting a go. Things drift quickly. I want to prevent that so I want to know:

What are you working on right now?

Leave a comment in the comments box and let me know.

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

The winning question was:

"I am a top order batsman.My batting is good but I have lot of fat on my lower body which blocks me to play a long innings and run quickly to take singles. So, I want to lose fat from my body, what should I do?"

Listen to the panels answer to his question here.

To enter your own question for the chance to win your choice of online coaching course send your questions in here.

Gary Palmer has been coaching batsmen for decades and alongside running the high-class CCM Academy, acts as a batting consultant to many professional and International batsmen. To find out more click here.

Don't underestimate the power of coaching the basics well.

Think of good progressive coaching in building blocks: keep building the pyramid from the bottom up. It takes much longer to get it right unless you technically prepare players for the next level.

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 5 videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

Sam Lavery joins the cricket show panel this week as "Lavers", Burners, David Hinchliffe and Mark Garaway talk about the sticky subject of losing weight for cricket, including the fitbit. Plus Lavers makes a stunning debut on the "soap box".

The mailbag also has a question about which types of spin bowling work best for Twenty20 cricket. The team and give all the budding short format spinners some tips for success whatever your style.

Download the show and listen now!

We have all been in England's shoes: A good side at the hands of a huge defeat. How the English fight their way out is a good case study for the teams that we coach.

England are not in unfamiliar territory. They are used to chasing a series after losing the first test match of the tour, It's been happening for years; it started on my watch unfortunately! As the perennial bad starters into fast finishers, England are the Usain Bolt of cricket.

Looking at the facts, England have been undefeated in 55% of overseas Test series in the last 11. However, they have won the opening Test once since 2006. England Coach Andy Flower thrives under this type of pressure, he knows that his team are slow starters and most importantly, history tells him that England fight back well after their slow starts.

So where do they go next, and what can we learn?

Keen listeners to the Cricket Show will remember we talked about the best technology to use for coaching. Mark Garaway made a few recommendations during the show.

Here is the list:

Closing date: 16th December 2013

As part of Derbyshire County Cricket Club’s Cricket Management Strategy, the Club is seeking a highly-motivated and successful Elite Cricket Performance Director to lead all of our cricket operations.

I was recently lucky enough to have a conversation with Shahzad Altaf, the Head Coach of Young Talent Cricket Academy in Dubai. One of his key coaching philosophies is that developing cricketers is just like building a medieval cathedral.

I love the analogy because it works on a number of levels: