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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 JOBS: Head of Commercial Rights - ECB (UK)

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Closing date: 28th November 2014

 

The England and Wales Cricket Board was established on January 1st, 1997 as the single national governing body for all cricket in England and Wales and has its headquarters at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.

CRICKET JOBS: Admin Manager - PCYC (UK)

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Closing date: 30th November 2014

This exciting role will be based at the PCYC office located in the Yorkshire Indoor cricket school, Headingley, Leeds. We are looking for a dedicated and motivated person to oversee and co-ordinate the administration of the business.

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights: Metronomic

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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 videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

Cricket Show S5 Episode 43: From Playing to Coaching

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How can a player transition into being a good coach? With the appointments of Collingwood and Ramprakash to high profile roles, and some criticism floating around, the team discuss if you need to be a world-class player to coach at world-class levels. Or a good player to coach at good levels.

David Hinchliffe, Sam Lavery and Mark Garaway go on to look at cricket bats, and in particular how you deal with a bat that is not right for you. Plus we discuss the term "skidding the ball" and try to interpret exactly what it is, and how to use it to your advantage.

Your thoughts on the topic are welcome.

Quick Tip: Decide to be Conventional or Unorthodox by Asking Why

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Conventional thinking is a double edged sword.

A lot of orthodox ideas have found their way into cricket because they are effective. If you tell a batsman to dig in and play straight you are onto a winner because generally this advice works. It's worked for literally hundreds of years, especially with players of a certain type.

How to Develop Fighting Cricketers

When someone says that a player is or isn’t mentally tough I always reply with "what is mental toughness"?

This was a question that was asked to England's best players back in the mid-2000s by Dr Steve Bull and his Sports Psychology team. The findings of those discussions ultimately split the subject of mental toughness into 4 sub-categories: Fight, Inner Drive, Critical Moment Control and Resilience

By breaking the huge subject down, we are able to attribute characteristics that define each of these 4 sub-categories. As coaches, we can make interventions and build strategies into our planning that help to develop and challenge these capacities with our players and teams.

So let's take "fight" and delve a little deeper into the associated characteristics:

Work on Your Strengths to Bowl Faster

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CRICKET JOBS: Groundsman - Totton and Eling Cricket Club (UK)

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Closing date: undisclosed

Totton and Eling Cricket Club, a well established cricket and sport club based in Hampshire's Southern Electric Cricket League, are currently recruiting a new groundsman.

CRICKET JOBS: Chair - Suffolk CB (UK)

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Closing date: 24th November 2014

We are pleased to invite applications for the position of Chair of Suffolk Cricket Board:

Suffolk Cricket Board Limited is looking to recruit a Chairman whose business and marketing skills can help promote “Suffolk Cricket” and secure investment into the game within the county.

CRICKET JOBS: Performance Analyst, England Women's - ECB (UK)

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Closing date: 26th November 2016

Full-time – Based At National Cricket Performance Centre, Loughborough 

£ Competitive + excellent benefits 

The vision of England Cricket is “to Inspire the Nation”. The mission is “to become and remain the most successful and respected cricketing nation” and, as part of this, is seeking to “create the world’s best cricket intelligence and applied knowledge”.