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PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights: All the Great Shots

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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.

Inspire Your Team by Using Golden Moment Speeches

How important is a speech to rally your players?

According to Jolyon Finck, it's crucial. Jol is the Director of Swimming at Millfield School and was the successful coach of the England Squad in the Commonwealth Games of 2014.

Recently Jol spoke about having to deliver those "Golden Moment" speeches to his athletes ahead of each heat, semi-final and final.

In total, Jolyon gave 57 speeches.

In these moments the coach aims to focus, relax, motivate or positively distract the athlete to help them get into their ideal performance state.

Who's Job Is Cricket Fitness?

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Unless you are a professional or academy cricketer, there is noone responsible for improving your strength and conditioning. And that's hurting your game.

But fear not, there is a man on a mission to help solve this problem for you and for millions of players who don't get access to good training. That man is Ross Dewar.

Graham Gooch on Coaching Batting Technique

This article is an exerpt from the Graham Gooch Runmaker eBook available on PitchVision Academy. For more details, click here.

I want to talk a little about working on technique with a batsman, one to one.

CRICKET JOBS: Cricket and Sales Support Assistant - MCC, Lords (UK)

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Closing date: 6th March 2015

Very competitive salary and excellent benefits package

Lord’s Cricket Ground is widely renowned worldwide as the Home of Cricket. Its retail business operates 12 months a year through the main Lord’s Shop that offers a wide range of souvenir merchandise, clothing and gifts for everyone and the Lord’s Cricket Store, central London’s only dedicated cricket equipment retailer selling a huge range of leading brands for players of all skill levels and ages

CRICKET JOBS: Retail Administration Assistant - MCC, Lords (UK)

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Closing date: 27th February 2015

Salary dependent on skills and experience

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is the World’s premier Cricket Club, based at Lord’s – The Home of Cricket. The Club’s Retail Department is seeking to employ a full time Retail Administration Assistant to join the high performing and profitable retail team within its in-ground retail stores at this world famous sporting venue.

CRICKET JOBS: Cricket Development Officer - Cornwall Cricket (UK)

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Closing date: 27th February 2015

Job Title: Cricket Development Officer

Salary – (£18,000 - £22,000)

Hours: 37 hours per week (flexible)

Develop Your Very Own "Runmakers" with England's Greatest Run-Machine: Graham Gooch

PitchVision Academy are delighted to announce today England record-breaker and batting coach Graham Gooch is sharing his knowledge by joining the online coaching panel.

Click here for full details.

Cricket Show 296: Competition Winner

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

The winning question was,

"I'm interested to know your thoughts on field settings for leg spinners in T20 cricket and how to attack but not go for too many runs."

Cricket Show S6 Episode 5: Fielding In The Box

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David Hinchliffe chats to coaches Mark Garaway and Sam Lavery. The cricket topics start with a discussion about the difference between skill, and skill under pressure. Listen in for the team's solutions.

Then the show moves on to field settings for Twenty20 leg spin bowlers. Both Garas and Lavers came up with the same field.

You can view it here.