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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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How to Set Up Players on PitchVision

This is a quick, simple guide to setting up a new player on the PitchVision Coach app for Windows.

If you can't see the video above, click here.

"Players" are anyone who will be using the system. It's important to set them up so they can view their videos and data after the session. However, once someone is set up, they will remain on the system. You only need to do it once. You can add players any time.

Cricket Show 338: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was,

Train Like the South African Cricket Team with the PitchVision Cricket School at CSA Centre of Excellence

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The PitchVision Cricket School is your chance to train like an international cricketer.

Based at the state-of-the-art CSA Centre of Excellence in Pretoria, you will experience exactly the same facilities and training you would get if you were in the South African squad. Think how quickly will you improve with world-class backing like this.

Iain Brunnschweiler on the Power of Saying Nothing

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This is a guest article from England Performance Programme Coach and Head of Inspired Cricket, Iain Brunnschweiler. For more coaching tips, drills and ideas from Brunchy, click here.

Let me set you a challenge: At your next coaching session, see how long you can go through it without giving any advice.

There is a lot of power in saying nothing.

Graphic: Balancing Batting Tradition with Creative Shots

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If you ever wonder how much you should practice traditional shots and creative new shots, answer the four questions in this graphic and get your answer (with thanks to Sam Lavery for the information).

Cricket Show S6 Episode 46: Williamson vs. Taylor

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Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe discuss the differences between Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor, and how that can help you improve your batting.

There is also cricket chat on becoming an overnight success compared to slow, painful progress and ways to get more drift as a spinner.

Download and listen now.

Batting Drill: Clearer Decision Making Against Spin

I ran a batting session the other day. We focused on how to use multiple shot options against spinners.

We had a net and a bucket of cricket balls. We also used cones for marking areas or fielders and a whiteboard for scoring progress. Tom was the batter. Garas was the coach!

Quick Tip: Improve Your Straight Drive Power with a Strong Wrist

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One common thing I see a lot with batsmen is a "broken" wrist.

Not damage to then bone, but instead the wrist has wrapped itself around the bat when you drive.

Can You Exploit this Loophole to Get a World-Class Cricket Education?

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What do you if you are desperate to get into professional cricket but also need an education?

That's the dilemma of millions of young cricketers around the world, especially if you are from India, where the pressure from parents to get a trade as an engineer or business manager are as strong as the passion for the game. It's a regular question sent in here to PitchVision Academy; how do I choose?

What if you didn't have to choose at at all?

Look the Part: How Your Image Makes You a Better Cricketer

Here's an inconvenient truth: Your image is important to your cricket.

Naturally, results always come first. It doesn't matter what you look like if you are scoring hundreds then bowling out the opposition top six before catching the rest at slip. But if want a chance, you absolutely have to "look and act the part".