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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 Show 53: Playing spin, the Magnus effect and fast bowling appearance

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Kevin's young and inexperienced team is having early season success. This week he reveals why he thinks everything has gone so well. Also Menno Gazendam and Gary Palmer join David in answering cricket coaching questions:

Why getting dropped will make you a better cricketer

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It could be going from representative level back to grade cricket or simply being selected for the 2nd XI. For some players getting dropped is a cricketing disaster. It's a dramatic demonstration that they are not up to the task.

How to bat well against off spin

Does good off spin bowling baffle you? It probably should. Even if you are confident against spinners, you can never really relax. Ask Ricky Ponting.

What you can do is learn to play better against off spin by making small changes to your technique and tactics.

Let's look at some of these now:

Laws of cricket: One run cost a century and recording a no ball

This edition of Laws of Cricket, in association with the International Institute of Cricket Umpiring and Scoring, covers some more tricky questions of the Laws.

Building the wall: The 1 sure-fire way to prevent a batting collapse

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Geoff Boycott has a simple formula: If you think your innings is doing well, just add two wickets and see how it looks. 80-1 sounds good. 80-3 is shaky. It's a nice idea but that safety-first approach can only lead to a batting collapse.

Cricket Show 52: Spin bowling tips, batting triggers and playing for India

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Guests Menno Gazendam and Gary Palmer join David and Kevin in this week's show. Kevin talks us through an exciting finish to his Saturday club match and the start of his Twenty20 campaign. We also answer a wide range of questions including:

Don't be a bad stand-in umpire

stand in umpirePlayers, coaches or spectators roped in to umpire club cricket matches all want the same thing: To keep mistakes to the minimum and let the players enjoy the match. But it's tricky if you are not a qualified umpire.

No wonder you are a little reluctant to do it.

Living the dream: Cricketer reveals how he won a professional contract

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In August 2009, 19 year old Josh Davey was awarded a contract with Middlesex County Cricket Club. How did he do it?

How India prepared for the World Cup

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The following article is an extract from Now or never: The Inside Story of the Indian Cricket Team at the 2003 World Cup by the team analyst: Shayamal Vallabhjee. In this section Shayamal tells us some of the plans India put into place before the tournament started.

The Indian contingent stayed at The Spier Wine Estate for our first match.

5 exercises no cricketer should do. Ever.

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Absolutes are a rare thing. The phrase 'it depends' is always hanging close to the lips of good cricket coaches and fitness trainers. There are always exceptions to rules.

Except in this list.

When I see people doing any of these exercises in the gym I just want to wince. Partly because they wasting their time. Sometimes because it's downright risky. Mainly because their heart is in the right place (they came to the gym after all) but their execution is all off.