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PitchVision: Improve Your Cricket

Do you want to grow your cricket? Then PitchVision is the home of online coaching and self-improvement in the game. Bring your "growth mindset" to better technique, better tactics, more skill and a winning team. All these things are possible if you play the game to improve rather than prove.

Read, watch, listen, work, improve. That's the PitchVision way.

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JOBS: Cricket Coaches - Cricket Coaching Excellence (UK)

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Closing date: undisclosed

Coaching Cricket Excellence, based in West London and run by ex-Middlesex player, Peter Welling’s, has opportunities for current and former County cricketers interested in coaching. Our activities include children’s holiday courses, cricket for foreign student groups, one-to-one tuition, academy/elite-level training and work with Indian cricketers visiting the UK.

If you’re interested in coaching for Coaching Cricket Excellence, please email peter@coachingcricketexcellence.co.uk, call 07958 981919, or visit: www.coachingcricketexcellence.co.uk for more information.

Become a Cricketer: 5 Ways to Get Ignored and Overlooked

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Do you want to be a cricketer? Then read this all the way though.

It's time for some tough love.

We get many, many comments and emails every day from hopeful players. The passion is clear however, the methods used are guaranteed to mean that you will be overlooked and never make you dreams come true. There is a negative pattern that is increasing in volume. You want our help, we want to give it but we can't because you are setting yourself up to be ignored.

You are better than that.

So here are those pitfalls.

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights 22: Chinaman Spotted

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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.

 

Cricket Show S4 Episode 45: Sprint Drills for Fast Bowlers

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Mark Garaway joins David Hinchliffe to don thick rimmed spectacles and put pens in their top pockets to talk about the hardware that is best for cricket coaches and players. Phones, laptops and tablets are covered.

But we don't stay there very long as we also answer questions on sprinting for fast bowlers, how our bodies move, and coming back after rehab from an injury.

Use A "Management Team" to Build the Indestructable Cricket Club

You might not realise, but your side has a management team.

We don't have the professional luxury of a huge support staff containing physiotherapists, sports psychologists, analysts and assistant coaches like the major international outfits. We do have have a group of people who shape our performance on and off the field.

And it's the coaches job to manage this team, or it will manage itself: badly!

Quick Tip: Handling the Shane Watson LBW Problem

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Kurt asks,

"I currently have a problem with my front foot when the ball is on middle and leg. It seems to always get in way, kind of like the same problem Shane Watson has at the moment. Can you please advise some things I can do to correct this?"

There are a few reasons for this, but one of the quickest ways to correct the fault without a coach to help you is by a simple adjustment of your feed.

And it's such a clever trick it works with throwdowns, drop feed, bowling machines and even bowlers.

Does Your Club Give You Value for Money?

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Cricket takes a lot of time and effort. So, a big part of the job of grass-roots clubs to to ensure players get the best value possible for their membership fees.

PitchVision Academy are in a great position to find out more about the value different clubs around the world give their members, so we decided to survey some clubs to find out what you get in different parts of the world.

We looked at the cost of adult membership, including annual and match fees and kit costs for several clubs around the world. Then we took an average annual cost (see below).

JOBS: Head Coach - Magdalen College

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Closing date: 4th December 2013

Applications are invited for the post of Head Cricket Coach with effect from 6th January 2014.

Magdalen College School is located in the heart of Oxford on the banks of the Cherwell and is one of the country’s leading and most historic day schools. It was founded by William of Waynflete in 1480.

Good Cricket Coaches Know What to Say, Great Cricket Coaches Know When to Shut Up

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One of the best tools a cricket coach can use is the ability to say nothing at all.

I can hear the nay-sayers already baulking. How can you possibly improve players if you stands at the back of the net in stony silence throughout a session? Of course, you can't and shouldn't do that. But you also need to work hard at knowing what to say, when to say it, how you say it, and - most importantly - if you need to say it at all.

Cricket Show 237: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was:

"I'm a leg spin bowler and my coach says that my spine is at a 45 degree angle and that I'll have back problems in the future, but he didn’t tell me how to fix this. I’m wondering if you guys would know how fix this problem? "

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.