Talent Scout: Cricket New Zealand

Closing Date: 11th October 2013

Cricket is New Zealand’s staple summer sport with more than 100,000 people currently playing the game, making it one of the most widely played sports in the country.

New Zealand Cricket is responsible for the administration of the game in New Zealand, with delivery of grassroots, club, school and representative programmes managed through six regional Major Associations. New Zealand Cricket also administers the New Zealand men’s international team, The BLACKCAPS and the women’s international team, The White Ferns, as well as the New Zealand A, U19 teams and emerging players.

We’re looking for two Talent Scouts, reporting to the GM National Selection. These are part time contract roles from the end of October 2013 until the end of March 2014, involving approximately 80 days of work over this period.

The primary focus of the HP Talent Scout is to identify the talented players in the national men’s pathway who have the potential to become international cricketers for the BLACKCAPS, or representatives at New Zealand A or New Zealand Under-19 levels. This may involve attendance at Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy, HRV Twenty20 or the occasional U19 or secondary school fixtures, prior to making recommendations to the GM National Selection.

Mark Garaway drags us into his personal batting hell as he relates to a Reader's Question on the show. The solution is is creative as always, so download the show and get listening!

We also discuss the success of Irish cricket in recent years, the Kanga league, and the myth of weight training to get bulky (hint: you won't).

This is a follow up to last week's question from Paul Wood asking how he can progress as a coach. I recommend you read last week's article first.

Last week we looked at the formal pathway through to "performance" level (rather than helping beginners). This week we are going to go one step further and look at both elite coach education, and informal options that are available to all coaches, irrespective of qualification or coaching environment.

I got a great question emailed in recently,

"My son gets a lot out of playing cricket. I think as well as the physical side of the game, it is vital the mental side is dealt with. My lad as played club and county development cricket this year. He says when he plays county he finds he feels different. He never seems to be able to say how, but just that he does. I would like to find out how he can overcome this."

Face it, your head has been turned by the new iPhone 5. It's the new hotness. It's sexy. It's GOLD.

Most of all, it's a game changing device.

Whatever you do as a cricketer, or coach, having a tiny but powerful computer right in your pocket opens up a world of opportunity. And with the new iPhone about to hit the shops, is the perfect time to buy.

So why exactly should you buy an iPhone 5 if you want to play better cricket?

National/High Performance Cricket Coach: Jersey Cricket Board

Closing Date: 11th October 2013.

The Jersey Cricket Board is seeking to appoint an experienced and highly motivated coach to assist with the continued development of cricket in the Island.

It is envisaged that the contract will be for a minimum two-year period and will be operational from December 2013 and reviewed thereafter.

The principal responsibilities include:

Cricket Coach: University of Exeter

Closing Date: 25th September 2013

A full-time Cricket Coach is required at the Sports Park, at the University of Exeter. The role will involve coaching and management. This position will be for 10 months and is part of the Graduate Business Partnership internship scheme.

The University of Exeter manages paid internships for graduates, placing them with small, medium and large organisations or companies. For more information on the scheme please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/internships

The main duties will include assisting the Director of Cricket in the coaching of University second and third eleven cricket teams, to be lead coach of the Exeter College cricket academy and all holiday camps and coach on a one to one basis as required. You will also support the management of the indoor corporate league and oversee and ensure that the cricket centre is maintained to the highest standard of presentation at all times.

Picture the typical fast bowler personality. You are probably thinking of an angry, red-faced man with a face full of bristling moustache. He is bent on everything short of murder and not short of a few choice words or a bouncer aimed straight at your teeth.

But what if you have a bit of fast bowling talent without the aggressive personality?

Can you ever be a success as a quickie?

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

On one of those typical scorching hot South African summer days I was being smacked around the park. Not pretty.

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

The winning question was:

"I want to know secrets of winning matches, because we every week but we have not won a single match for 3 months. I am frustrated being Captain, I accept all the responsibility, either the opponents are too good or we are too weak. But we play competitively we just lost by inches. How do we win?"

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.