In England, I was bought up being told that you should not hit against the spin.

You can't hit with control and the bowler will end up getting your wicket, they used to tell me.

Every time I hit an off spinner for 4 between mid off and extra cover I was told it was risky.

But I reckon that in all my batting career scored 2000 runs with that one shot.

In our regular series of coaching questions PitchVision Academy put to Kevin Pietersen during the filming of Keep Calm and Smash It, we asked KP to explain his approach to left arm spin. He doesn't see a problem.

The video below explains it all, including demonstrating the way he scores.

Click play to watch it.

If you want to learn shortcuts to learning your own methods of batting success get Keep Calm and Smash It, the online coaching course that gives you instant access to videos, drills and worksheets.

Today’s article is a guest post on technology in coaching from Bala of criccube.com, republished with permission.

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

"We have a batsman who in game situations plays most of his shots from his back foot. How can we get him to play more front foot shots in games? What can we do during this winters nets to get him onto his front foot more without taking away his very good back foot shots? How can we progress this to better shot selection during games next season?" 

Listen to the panel’s 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. 

Cricket coach Darren Talbot has been thinking about how to make the most of a short English summer for kids still in school

The summer is far too short for colts cricket here in the UK and it’s causing a problem.

Matches start at the start of May and end when schools break up in mid-July. Kids are getting barely 3 months of competition. Certainly in my area this is unlikely to change anytime soon.

6 whole weeks of potential cricket, including the whole of August and how much is played? 

Batting coach Gary Palmer joins the show to talk angles, technique and an alternative method that challenges current approaches to caoching.

Meanwhile Burner, Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe discuss the IPL auction and how the biggest name players are not always the most important (and how that applies to your team).

Plus questions are answered on finding form after an injury, how to stop playing everything off the back foot and how to sport a beard as well as Matt Prior (listen to the show to find out more).

 There are as many different styles of coaching as there are cricket coaches. Some things are changeable based on your personality and philosophy as a coach, but there are 4 pillars for every coach. These are the things that you take to every session, without question.

After discussing the best trigger for pace bowling in part one, part two of this video sees Gary Palmer move on to spinners.

Yet again Gary’s goal is to make sure the batsman avoids the common technical problems with a simple move that is an adaption of the popular – and highly misunderstood – forward press.

Click here to view to video now.

If you are in the UK and play or coach club cricket, you can come at meet PitchVision at the Headingley cricket ground in Leeds this weekend (11^th February).

The Cricket Resource Show heading to Yorkshire and it’s going to be packed with ideas for you to use this coming season, including PitchVision.

There are sections to help you raise funds through your club, get vital training and ground equipment, playing gear and merchandise: everything under one roof so you can explore.

PitchVision batting coach Gary Palmer has been causing a bit of a stir.

After years of experimenting and developing he has come up with the ultimate batting session.

A batting session that is so effective and so complete he has been showing it to open-mouthed coaches at several first-class counties.

But here is the kicker; it teaches you to bat in a way that has never been taught before.

Gary calls it 4 Angles, and it’s the only session you will ever need as a coach or a player.