If you want to bat with power and timing, make sure you play your shots with both feet on the ground.

Holding the ball cross seam is horrifying to swing bowlers, but vital on good batting days.

Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe join forces to talk cricket. This show discusses how to bat on poor pitches, being an overseas professional in league cricket and bowling machine recommendations.

I would not call myself particularly old fashioned in my approach to coaching batting yet I have really enjoyed the purist first week of the ICC Champions Trophy.

The basics of batting against spin are different to the basics of batting.

Our captain, the canny character, has a saying. "Just bowl dots". Does this tactic really work?

"Do you want a game on Wednesday?" The midweek Twenty20 captain asks you after your Saturday match.

You can play, but it's a busy week and Wednesday is your only free time for training too. So you have a choice.

What do you do?

A third of the way through the season is a time to review.

“You tried to hit that one too hard” The coach says from behind the bowling machine. “You lost your shape”.

But wait, isn’t cricket about hitting the ball hard enough to get some runs?

Every bowler, whether they admit it or not, knows how many wickets they have taken.