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PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights 10: Right Out of the Screws

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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 31: Ducks and Hundreds

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Burners, David Hinchliffe and Mark Garaway return to discuss cricket coaching and playing. There are tales of Garas getting a duck and Burners scoring hundreds for fun.

But we also talk tips including when to bring young players into adult cricket, playing on seaming wickets and keeping a good seam position when bowling.

Download the show and listen on your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad, or just listen right here in the browser to half an hour of cricket goodness in your ears.

How to Use the "Simpson Drill" to Teach Throwing Skills

Last weekend I headed up a great group of cricket coaches at Sportsfest 2013 in the grounds of Wormsley Estate.

I was working with a group on throwing and they were struggling with both their alignments and also to understand my instruction.

Find Out Here if you can Bowl a Doosra

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

The doosra and carrom ball is very difficult to bowl. Some even say they cannot be bowled legally.

The Frank Underwood Guide to Batting Power

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House of Cards is an epic TV show following the dark exploits and political manoeuvring of US congressman Frank Underwood. It's a compelling story of power. You should watch it.

But the lessons from the show are not just for aspiring politicians. There are things batters can learn from the way Underwood understands and manipulates people to his own ends.

Because people are still people. Be they opening bowlers, or Presidential candidates.

Here is the wisdom of Underwood that you can use, or as he may say in that understated southern drawl, abuse:

Cricket Show 223: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was:

"How can I improve my fast bowling, just by bowling in the nets or are there any drills?"

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.

Cricket Training Ideas: Baseball Mitts

It's rare to see a coach these days without a fielding bat and a baseball catching mitt in the kitbag. But the mitt is a tool that can be used by all players.

I can hear people saying, "Hang on, mitts are cheating. Why would a player want one?"

The answer is simple: to improve your throwing.

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights 9: Ripping Leg Breaks

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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 30: Drill, drills, drills

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It's a bit of a drills special on the Cricket Show, with the team of Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe discussing how to evaluate a drill before and after you have used it.

The panel also look at ways to stop shuffling across the crease, and drills to improve fast bowling (especially against bowling in nets). While David gets on his soapbox about draw cricket.

Download the show to your phone, or listen right here in the browser. Half an hour of a cricket party with Garas!

Coaching to Win: Inspire Cricketers with Lessons from Lions Legends

This week I am working in Sardinia with Rugby World Cup Winners Will Greenwood and Austin Healey. We run holidays for families which included world class coaching in both rugby and cricket.

So I have had the great pleasure to spend my days alongside International and Lions legends such as Scott Quninnel, Shane Horgan, Will and Ian Salisbury.

You know I am always looking to learn, well here are the things that the Legends have imparted on me this week: