Closing date: 24th Feb 2014

Bedford School is looking for an outstanding candidate for September 2014, to direct cricket coaching and player development at all levels throughout the school. It is expected that the successful candidate will have coached and/or played cricket to a very high standard.

The role would suit an individual seeking to become a full-time coach or a teacher, who may wish to continue with a considerably reduced academic timetable alongside their extensive coaching commitments.

The School has a very strong cricket tradition, motivated boys, excellent facilities and equipment, a dedicated Coaching Team and an ambition to succeed at the highest level. 

There's no doubt that learning the craft of batting is a long road. So why not take a couple of shortcuts?

Here are three simple, streetwise ways that you can score more runs without spending hours in the nets grooving your drives. Yeah they are a bit lazy, but things are tough enough, you can use a helping hand.

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This is an exclusive excerpt from the Countdown to Summer eBook available for instant download on PitchVision Academy.

Everyone knows how important goals are to success during the season. What if you could use the same idea to make your pre-season go with a bang too?

It's often overlooked that the run up to the summer needs clear goals too. You might not be scoring runs and taking wickets, but you still need a focus, and writing down your preseason goals provides that.

So take up your pen and paper and start planning your preseason too.

Here are the questions you need to ask to get your goals in place:

Last week, I wrote an article which led to significant debate on the site. This is brilliant, exactly what we are looking for.

The drill that I wrote about was an option to use when you’re faced with a fast bowler who sweeps the back leg under the line of their body going into Back Foot Contact (BFC). Pitchvision Academy fast bowling coach, Ian Pont gave some views and opinions in the comments section and offered another set of drills that can help bowlers to deal with the same technical challenge.

For many, now is the time that the serious preseason work begins and hope for the new season turns to hard work in the nets.

As a PitchVision Academy reader you already know that standard net practice is not great, and you want to make to most of your time, but you also don't want to spend hours researching and planning things.

So put up your feet and let us do the work for you... at least the research part. You still have to do the nets part yourself.

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

I'll be honest with you about this one, it's disgustingly simple. So much so you might shrug and go "so what?". Yet year after year I see young fast bowlers make this mistake in the early season and miss out on a bundle of wickets as more canny seamers take full advantage.

So, this edition of "Streetwise Bowling" is more of a story than a set of balls.

Closing date: 31st January 2014

Location: The Ageas Bowl, West End, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 3XH

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Salary: £17k per annum

Are you a coach hunting for instant use "no fuss" cricket drills and practices for your team?

Iain Brunnschweiler, England Performance Programme Coach, has come to the rescue with a brand new 6 week series of session plans, including video demonstrations of drills. All you need to do is pick up the session plan and get to practice.

Click here to get week 1 drills now.

Each week, for the next 6 weeks, this series will bring you streaming video ideas to use for: