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PitchVision: Improve Your Cricket

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: Community Marketing Specialist - Cricket Victoria (Aus)

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Closing date: 19th August 2016

Cricket Victoria is one of the state’s leading sporting organisations. Cricket Victoria has the responsibility of developing and overseeing cricket throughout the state to underpin growth and participation and contribute to the success of the Victorian and Australian cricket teams. From grassroots cricket to the elite teams - the Bushrangers, VicSpirit, Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades - we nurture and promote the development and success of the sport for all Victorians.

CRICKET JOBS: Female Participation Specialist - Queensland Cricket (Aus)

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Closing date: 19th August 2016

Queensland Cricket (QC) is one of Queensland’s premier sporting bodies, with a vision for cricket to be Australia’s favourite sport throughout the state. With a dynamic and committed workforce it is driving participation in the game and developing future state and national players, both male and female.

Three Simple Ways to Slog

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Picture the scene: You are playing a Twenty20 match and it’s the last few overs. The field is set back and the bowler is trying to bowl yorkers. You need to score at nine an over to win.

It’s time to slog.

CRICKET JOBS: Business Manager - Oxfordshire Cricket (UK)

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Closing date: 9th September 2016

This role is pivotal to enable Oxfordshire Cricket to work within the Game Wide Strategy, ‘Cricket Unleashed’, specifically under ‘More Play’, ‘Good Governance and Social Responsibility’ and ‘Strong Finance and Operations’. Participation and Growth development within Cricket will be a real focus for everyone involved in the game.

CRICKET JOBS: Assistant Groundsperson - Nottinghamshire CCC (UK)

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Closing date: 17th August 2016

Trent Bridge, the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, is looking to recruit a full-time ASSISTANT GROUNDSPERSON to work as part of a small team based mainly at its Lady Bay ground.

CRICKET JOBS: Events and Sponsorship Co-ordinator - Melbourne Stars (Aus)

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Closing date: 17th August 2016

The Melbourne Stars is a high profile BBL team playing in the KFC T20 Big Bash League (BBL) and the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) in Australia. The Melbourne Stars continue to grow due to the increasing interest, popularity and participation in Australian cricket particularly the BBL and WBBL.

How to Turn Good Net Form into Runs: Comparing Batting in Nets with Games

One of the age-old battles in cricket is in the nets.

The bowler claims one thing (caught!), the batsman claims another (one bounce four!). No one ever knows for sure unless the bowler hits the stumps. It's all good banter, but it does bring up one question; how can you improve your game if you don't know what happened?

Let's look at the problem and come up with some answers.

Cricket Show S7 Episode 27: Bouncing Back

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Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe are joined by Khyati Gulani to talk about cricket. The show looks at the lessons from England's Test series with Pakistan before mving on to listener's questions.

The team talk about concentration while batting, women's cricket and preparing for three day cricket. "Tune" in to hear the coaching chat.

Good Cricketers are Good at Failing: Here's How to Emulate Them

How good are you at failing?

As a player and a coach, I have endured my fair share of failure. We all do. Failure is central to cricket's core. A bowler fails, a batter succeeds. The batter fails and the fielding side is happy. A duck is the ultimate batting failure. One team succeeds and one team fails.

The best batters in the world succeed once every three to four innings.

That's a 75% failure rate.

With these numbers and experiences in mind, how good are you at failing?

Khyati Gulani: The Awesome Power of the Question

This is a guest article Khyati Gulani. Khyati is an ex-cricketer now coaching state and academy cricket in Delhi.

One of the most important parts of communication is the culture to question.