In cricket, you can’t eliminate luck, but you can give yourself a better chance of success.

Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe get into the cricket chat of the week. The discussion starts about how a new coach can impress a head coach. Then, there are questions about braced front leg for fast bowling and bat speed against spinners and seamers.

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Where does spin come from?

Ask any spinner or any coach this question and you can get a huge number of answers ranging from the pivot of the foot, through to the angle of the delivery stride.

This is largely to do with the open question. A better question is,

"which part of the body has the most significant role to play when generating spin?"

Here's what I think.

We have all been there; the nagging bowler who doesn't give you anything to hit, and just keeps plonking the ball on a length.

Time after time, while the runs dry up.

You fear being called too defensive, so you try hitting it and end up caught. Your game ruined.

What can you do?

It's simpler than you think, it just takes a little practice.

“I just try to stand still”

You probably don't have time to read this article.

Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe talk to Mark Garaway about coaching and playing cricket. The show is about playing cricket successfully past 35 year old. The team also look at batting practice while injured and the art of six hitting.

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Every Friday, I head down to Millfield Prep School and work as an assistant coach for a good friend of mine, Head of Cricket Dave Beal. Dave played 1st Class cricket for Somerset and since then has helped developed countless 1st class cricketers in his time at Millfield.

The demand for coaches to enhance player performance is increasing at an extraordinary rate.

How are you going to approach Scoring in 2018?

The same as last year?

Things have changed. We live in a social media age. Cricket Scoring has changed... but perhaps not quite enough to keep pace. People expect more information; they expect video content – and they want it on their phones or on the web. More importantly, people want more than just the scores. If they can’t be there in person, they want to understand and experience ‘what actually happened’. They want to share the excitement, triumph, or tragedy.