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CRICKET JOBS: Head Coach - Cricket PNG

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Closing date: 11th May 2014

Cricket PNG is looking to appoint an experienced National Coach on a full-time, two year contract.
 
The Hebou PNG Barramundis are now ranked 16th in the world and were recently awarded ODI status by the International Cricket Council. The team has an exciting mix of natural talent, flair and athleticism and over recent years has developed greater consistency and experience with an increased national team playing schedule.

CRICKET JOBS: Head Coach for Cricketers with an Intellectual Disability - Cricket Australia

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Closing date: 2nd May 2014

Head Coach for the Australian Cricket Team for Cricketers with an Intellectual Disability

The position of Head Coach for the Australian team for players with an intellectual disability is responsible for the individual skill development and team performance of the Australian team in the lead up to and during the 2015 Tri Nations tournament. The event is to be held in March 2015 in Melbourne against South Africa and England.

CRICKET JOBS: General Manager of Cricket Performance - Cricket NSW (Aus)

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Closing details: 16th May 2014

Cricket NSW is seeking a motivated and energetic person for the role of GM, Cricket Performance. The GM, Cricket Performance is responsible for ensuring NSW is the No.1 performing State, county or province in the cricket world.

How Freddie Flintoff is Helping to Build a New Cricket Education Tradition

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30% of English professional cricketers are private school educated, despite only 10% of people going through paid-education. The system works. It's a wonderful tradition.

That's a system that the Andrew Flintoff Cricket Academy (AFCA) has decided to bring to colleges with no cricketing tradition. A new scheme is set to have cricket at the centre of a fully rounded education, without the need to pay high fees.

I'm not going to lie, I wish there was a model like this when I was 16.

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights 37: Confident Pull Shot

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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.

Cricket Show S5 Episode 13: The Batsman's Doosra

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The banter flows between David Hinchliffe, Mark Garaway, Burners and Sam Lavery (back with a sick note from his Mum). The team look at serious issues including the "batsman's doosra", the World Twenty20, and changing your fielding skill from dead cert fine leg to high class cover point.

Names galore are dropped as we tell stories about KP, Michael Bevan and Johnty Rhodes. And fun is had with Burner's top tips for fielding with a bad keeper and how to dunk a ginger nut in a hot drink.

It's all on this show, so download today!

How Kumar Sangakkara Used Hideous Batting Form to Win the World Twenty20

Kumar Sangakkara signed off his Twenty20 career with a Man of the Match performance steering Sri Lanka to World glory.

Yet entering final Sunday, Kumar was experiencing something every batsman feels: hideous batting form.

Sri Lanka had progressed to the final of the tournament despite Sangakkara scoring 19 runs at an average of 4.75. He was horribly out of form and couldn't buy a run.

We all know that feeling!

For most players, the downward spiral tends to continue, our scores remain low, our confidence is eroded on a daily basis and our emotions shift between dejection and desperation.

But this cycle did not happen to Kumar Sangakkara.

Quick Tip: Manage Your Fast Bowling with 742

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How much should you bowl?

All fast bowlers know that the more you bowl the better you get. We also know that the more you bowl, the greater you chance of injury. So every session is a balance between performance and preventing back, knee or shoulder issues.

The ECB has done a huge amount of research into the subject and have come up with a simple guideline for working out how much is too much and how much is just right: 7/4/2

Streetwise Bowling: The Moon Shot

This article is part of the "Streetwise Bowling" series from PitchVision Academy. To view the full list of tactics click here.

Off spinners have to be clever. Moving the ball in to the right hander reduces your ability to take wickets over an equally skilled slow left arm bowler.

That means you need to be even more canny than the average spinner, and it's why you see such a variety in styles of off spin.

The big ripping offie bowls an "attacking" line outside off stump and through the gate. This is a great tactic, but what do you do to mix it up, or defeat a batsman who has your number?

So, picture the scene: an attacking off spinner who is having no luck against a batting pair. The batsmen are using their feet well to get to the pitch and drive safely.

What happens next?

Graphic: The Truth About Cricket Skill to Fitness Crossover

You don't need to be fit to be a skillful cricketer, and you don't need to be skillful cricketer to be fit. But, both elements together will feed off each other to make you a better player.