Cricket Development Officer – Schools & Education: Leicestershire & Rutland Cricket

Closing Date: 25th October 2013

Leicestershire & Rutland Cricket ("L&RC") is the Governing body for the sport in the counties and administers all aspects of recreational cricket.

We are currently looking for a Cricket Development Officer to support the Development team in the planning, delivering and monitoring of a co-ordinated programme of high quality, professional cricket activities that are reflective of the needs of the sport in the counties. The primary role of the CDO is to develop Secondary schools cricket in line with Chance to Shine ‘Sport England’ funding pathway and expectations for students aged 11 – 16.

Responsibilities of the Cricket Development Officer include but are not limited to the following:

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here

Bowling to tailenders is hard. In fact, sometimes it feels you would rather bowl to a proper batsman who play normal looking shots than to a tail-ender that does not know which end of the bat to hold.

And you know as a spinner they all back themselves to have a go at you. They will swing at everything, and occasionally they will connect big. Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a poor batsman cart you all over the park.

What problems are you having with your cricket at the moment?

I'm keen to find out because, as you know, PitchVision Academy thrives on helping you with relevant cricketing advice. Be it questions on the Cricket Show answered by Mark Garaway, video courses from top names, or detailed articles.

This week's winner of the Cricket Show podcast question competition is Tejasvi (also now know as "Tejers"). He wins a free coaching course from PitchVision Academy.

The winning question was:

"I am a left arm pace bowler my bowling action is semi action. I just want to know, is a semi bowling action OK? Do I need to be fully open chest bowler? I also want to increase my pace so please help me."

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.

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It's more special guests on the show this week. Malcolm Ellis of Willow CC and Roy Davie of Knox Gardens CC give us new insights.

But all the usual team are also in place. Mark Garaway chats with David Hinchliffe and Burners about left arm bowling midway actions, spin bowling pace nd the next 50 years of limited overs cricket.

Burners jumps on his soap box and there are allegations of name-based corruption! Listen right to the end to find out more.

The final part of my series on how to become a professional cricket coach looks at the role of the internet and creating your own practical opportunities to extend your learning.

To get up to speed with the rest of this series, take a look at part 1, part 2 and part 3.

So where do I go online to build my knowledge? Apart from PitchVision Academy of course! A couple of websites that I visit frequently are:

Here's an interesting question,

"I'm a 14 year old medium pacer. I don't have enough different types of balls, so if the batsman gets his eye in he can read me and whack me around, the balls in my arsenal are: Standard Delivery, Slower Ball, Faster Ball and the Off Cutter (I can also bowl a leg cutter, but I can't control it so I don't use it much).

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here

The backspinner, or zooter, is not that hard to bowl.

That's the ball where you push it out the side of the hand with backward revolutions. It is certainly not easy, but it is within the grasp of most good leggies. It’s simply a matter of understanding what a back spinner really is, and working hard enough at perfecting it.

Academy Strength and Conditioning Coach: Northants County Cricket Club

Closing Date: 11th October 2013

Northants County Cricket Club is one of eighteen First Class county cricket clubs which make up the English domestic County Cricket leagues and are the 2013 T20 Champions.

Northants CCC also gained promotion to Division 1 of the County Championship.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a highly ambitious Science and Medicine Department for the 2013-14 Winter and 2014 Summer Programme.

The coaching programmes are the core activity of the Professional and Academy/Emerging Player Squads which is supported by a fully integrated programme of technical, tactical, mental, and physical and welfare sessions. Strength and Conditioning is seen as a key element of the programme.