Ikgomotseng Mothoa was the Cricket South Africa PitchVision RPC and HUBS Coach of the Year.

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Name: Ikgomotseng Mothoa

Age: 29

Role: Head Coach, Hammanskraal Cricket Club

Ikgomotseng Mothoa was a Premier club cricketer who moved into grass-roots coaching through his passion for bringing cricket to youngsters in South African townships.

This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Purpose: To practice realistic ring ground fielding, run outs and backing up.

Description: Set up with fielders at point, extra cover, midwicket and square leg. One extra fielder waits behind point. The coach is fed an underarm feed and hit the ball to point (position 1). The fielder pick up and throws down the non-striker stumps. She then moves across to extra cover.

Being in a good team requires you to be a good team member. It's easy to think the best way to do that is by strong individual performances, but you can easily do so much more and contribute to other's games at the same time.

Cricket is a team sport played by solo players. Teamwork is a more subtle area that is easy to overlook. So let's no over-complicate things and get right to the heart of what makes a good team player (who doesn't compromise her own game in the process).

Start by looking left and right.

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

The winning question was,

Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe tackle cricket coaching issues. The show this week discusses the differences between removing weaknesses and building up strengths. Sometimes you can do both.

Plus there are listeners questions to examine. One player is wondering if his open stance is causing his issues outside off stump. Meanwhile someone else reminds Garas of his days at Cricket Ireland and asks about slow pitches and faster scoring.

half an hour filled with tips, tricks and banter!

Closing date: undisclosed

NORTH MIDDLESEX CC  -  COMMITTED, AMBITIOUS CLUB COACH AND ACADEMY DIRECTOR WANTED

North Middlesex CC (NMCC) is a long established (founded 1875), vibrant and progressive club, based in Crouch End, within 4 miles of the centre of  London

In last week's spin orientated article, I mentioned a comment that Glenn McGrath made about singing a song inside his head as he was running up to bowl. It was inspiring and reassuring to hear a great of the game talk about this as we use music a lot when working with players at Millfield School.

This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Closing date: 11th August 2011

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is seeking a dynamic and highly-motivated Conference and Events Administrator who will be responsible for supporting the Conference and Events team with the planning, delivery and evaluation of all our Derbyshire Experience events that we host at The 3aaa County Ground.

The role is broad and very rewarding and you will be involved in every aspect of The Derbyshire Experience from a customers’ initial enquiry through to the post-event review with the customer.

In the first Ashes Test of 2015, England brought in another weird fielding position: the silly slip.

Joe Root, helmet-clad, took a position at third slip that was far too close for comfort. It was reasonable considering the slow pitch and the low chance of an edge carrying to orthodox third slip. Successful or not, it is another in the long line of "funky" fielding positions that span back to the 1970s (at least).

Yet, club and school cricket remains staunchly formulaic. Is there something we can learn from the pros here?