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Is Bad Planning Costing You Wickets?

This is a guest article from Harry Shapiro, spin bowling coach. To get your free trial membership of the Leg Spin Association, click here.

Planning your over is hard. It take plenty of practice and control. No wonder young spinners get despondent when it doesn't quite work. That's no excuse to abandon good planning.

Part of the reason spinners don't plan their overs well is because the state of the game brings in a lot of different ways to approach things.To make it easier, here is a basic guideline from which you can start thinking about your bowling. You may adapt it to the state of the game on the day, but start here if you want to plan well.

There are two ways to look at planning an over:

JOBS: Master in Charge of Cricket - Dulwich College

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Closing date: 22nd November 2013

Dates: Job starts September 2014
Location: Southwark
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
 
An ademically selective independent boys' school with a tradition of inspired teaching, genuine scholarship and co-curricular breadth, Dulwich College is situated in a 70 acre campus in South East London.

JOBS: National Coach - German Cricket Federation

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Closing date: undisclosed

Cricket Germany is currently looking for a national team coach for 2014 and beyond. 

The position is freelance and will encompass about 25 days work next summer and will include training camps, warm up tournaments and coaching the German national team in the ICC Europe Division 2 Championships in Essex.

The coach should be at least Level 3 qualified and should be resident in Europe.

Mails please to manager@cricket.de

Cricket Show 235: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was:

"I am a coach at high school and I have a bowler who bowls off the wrong foot. He takes wicket regularly with that action, he also bowls good line and length, swings the ball and controls it well. My problem is that whenever I try to change his action he loses control of the ball and swing. He has the best bowling statistics in the province and he has always drawn the attention of the under 14 national selectors. The selectors said the can't take him until he fixes his bowling action. I was given two weeks to work on him. How do I go about changing him"

 

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.

Don't Let "Peak End Rule" Make you Train Like a Dummy

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Adam Kelly is a sport psychologist, coach and former professional cricketer. In this article he shows us the importance of memory in performance.

Here is a fact that will shock you if you coach or play cricket: Coaches can accurately remember only 40% of performance.

Explains why analysis is important in the modern sports environment, doesn't it?

You can't improve if you can't remember, so in a moment I am going to explain how to deal with this issue. But first, it's important to understand whywe only remember 40%.

According to research by Daniel Kahneman, we are all prone two phenomenons; 'duration neglect' and 'peak end rule'.

CRICKET JOBS: Player Coach - Coventry and North Warwickshire CC (UK)

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Coventry and North Warwickshire CC are looking to take on a player/coach for next season. The club is in a beautiful setting and boasts a wide array of sports and clubs, including it’s 4 senior teams and colts ranging from 9-17.

Cricket Show S4 Episode 42: Outrageous Selection

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Should selectors insist on correcting technical errors? Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe discuss the issue on the show. But it doesn't end there.

There is an interview with Cape Town International Cricket Academy enrollee Josh Hunter-Jordan. The young lad is looking to make it into first-class cricket and is heading to South Africa from England to train.

Bob Woolmer's coaching book and batting drills are discussed with a view to "watching the ball onto the bat", and we hear from an Aussie coach who is struggling to translate mindful training into runs on the park.

Can Gara's help?

Download and tune in!

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights 19: Name The New Shot

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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 5 videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

JOBS: Sports Referees / Umpires - Melbourne

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Melbourne Sports Institute is the leading supplier of sports coaches and umpires to schools in Melbourne. We are specifically seeking expert officials in the following sports: Basketball ; AFL; Netball; Volleyball; Cricket; Touch Rugby; Soccer; Softball; Hockey And more.

JOBS: General Manager Game Development - Queensland Cricket

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General Manager Game Development

"Grow Australia's Favourite Game"

Queensland Cricket is responding to the changing needs of the game by placing increased emphasis on promoting and developing the game amongst the younger generation, across both genders and within Australia's Indigenous community.