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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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Cricket Show 182: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was:

"How long do you think it will be until the rate of innovation in T20 tactics finally slows down? Its been 10 years now and we're still seeing new ideas emerging every tournament, new shots, new variations, new field settings, new batting plans, new bowling rotations. It seems like the way to win at T20 is to be one step ahead of the field in terms of an innovative and unexpected strategy. In comparison to longer formats, there is so little time for adjustment out on the field that if you come up with something the opposition weren't expecting, you immediately gain a significant and often decisive advantage. If you can come up with a completely new tactic, oppositions teams will eventually find a way to adjust, but by the time they do the tournament may be over."

Listen to the panel’s 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.

The Dhoni-Fletcher Guide to Getting Out of a Slump

Does it sometimes feel like you are cursed to make no progess with your cricket?

Like India's post-2011 World Cup slump of Test hammerings and World Twenty20 failure you can feel that - despite all your hard work - you have lost your ability.

You are stuck in a rut and it can feel like a disaster.

That feeling you had when you were a master of the game has gone. Your confidence is shot which puts you into a spiral of worse play and no idea how to get out it.

And as for progress, well, you can't even tred water, let alone improve.

Cricket Show 182: India's 5th Bowler

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India are out of the World Twenty20, but the selection dilemma the national side faced is one sides at all levels also see; 5th bowler or  extra batsman?

Find out what the team think by listening to the show.

We also discuss the rate of innovation in Twenty20 and where batsmen should stand in the crease, with Burner's getting some direct coaching advice from Mark Garaway.

If Twenty20 is a Lottery: What Does That Make Super-Over Cricket?

We now see sides progressing into World Cup Semi finals on the back of 1 over innings; the penalty shoot out of cricket.

So it possible to become a great 'super-over' player and a great 'super-over' coach?

Here is the main attribute that I believe you need to be successful in the new shortest format of the game.

Batting Like Sehwag is About More Than Aggression

Virender Sehwag is more than an opening batsman. Through his astounding achievements he has come to represent an attitude to batting.

That attitude has both been praised and admonished as simple yet irresponsible.

Batting is not a complex tactical and technical mix to Sehwag. He see's every ball in every situation as a chance to score runs. Ideally a boundary but he will take less if he must.

Quick Tip: How to Start the Season Well

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This week's quick tip is courtesy of a question from Neil in Mumbai:

"I play school and club cricket. I have also played the MCA tournament with the state players. My cricket tournament are starting on 10 October. As it is still rainy here the wickets will be quite damp. Please can you give some advice to handle the tough situation, and score big runs in the begining of this new season?"

Ryan Maron Batting Tips: Running Between the Wickets

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This interactive diagram is part of a series from Ryan Maron's Cricket School of Excellence. This time we look at running between the wickets

Ryan Maron - the former Western Province player - is one of South Africa’s leading coaches, running his famous Cricket School of Excellence in Cape Town for over 10 years as well as being Head coach of the University of Cape Town.

Click here to view the details now.

Cricket Show 181: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was:

"We recently had a fielding session in which we practiced diving , but as soon as we started I got badly bruised when I dived because I didn't know how to make a proper dive. What is the correct technique for diving & cushioning the impact?"

Listen to the panel’s 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.

The Great India Fielding Hoax

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

India has many great cricketers, but fielding has always been the weakest area for the team. Like a club side, the attitude is that fielding comes last. It's not as important as batting or bowling so you can afford standards to drop, as long as your main skill is in form.

That's a pure hoax.

Cricket Show 181: Bowling the Carrom Ball

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The Boss comes off the bench to replace Burners on the show for another week, but the podcast is still packed with practical cricket coaching advice.

We discuss the resurgence of Harbhajan Singh, bowling with personality bowling the carrom ball and how to dive in the field.