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PV/VIDEO Weekly Digest 1: Keep Your Cool

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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 5 videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

Cricket Show S4 Episode 21: Dealing with Pressure

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Pressure makes all cricketers do funny things, and this week we talk about the influence of pressure on teams and individuals as we look at Under 11 wides, the IPL final and team dynamics when chase a score you feel is beyond you.

Plus David Hinchliffe and Mark Garaway get in a rant about Jimmy Anderson, and what we can learn from his story of a changing bowling action.

It's a real crackerjack this time round. Download it now, or stream it from your browser.

3 Simple Measures Turn Batting Bunnies to Run Getters

It only seems like a few years ago when every team had at least one batter who would walk to the wicket with his team-mates giggles carrying across the outfield.

We were all waiting for the inevitable death rattle as the "bunny" plays all round a straight one.

Top level coaches now encourage the "bunny" to think about scoring runs rather than just surviving with leaves, blocks and evasion. As a result it's common to see lower order players reverse sweeping and moving across their stumps to tuck the ball into the on-side for one.

So how can we develop the next generation of lower order batters in our clubs, academies and schools?

Is There Any Reason to Bowl No Balls?

Long jumpers don't overstep the foul line to get more distance.

Dart players don't stand closer to the board to get more accuracy.

Footballers don't practice penalties from in front of the spot.

So why is there such an "overstep-idemic" at cricket practice?

Here is a perfect example:

Is Simulation the Future of Cricket?

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The Launch of PitchVision's Batting Simulator - the "Batting Studio" - at mainstream entertainment venue Bloomsbury Lanes in London has brought the future of the game into the spotlight.

The arcade-style batting lane, where anyone can face up to virtual bowlers and compete with friends, seems tiny compared to the behemoth "real" Test, ODI and T20 games. However, that doesn't detract from the wider implications, especially as this lane is the first of many worldwide.

What are those implications?

5 Coaching Lessons from the IPL Final

The IPL seems a long way from the cricket we play. But it is the same game with the same size pitch, balls and stumps.

It's just the players are a bit better.

So there is bound to be lessons guys like Dhoni, Malinga, Pollard and Morkel can teach us. Even if we may never play at Eden Gardens in front of 60,000.

Here are 5 universal things that I think we can take into our next game, be it a friendly or a vital final:

Retaining Young Cricketers: Training Sessions

This is the 2nd in a series of guest articles from Darren Talbot of Darren Talbot Cricket Coaching and Head of Coach Mentoring at Surrey County Cricket Club. To read part 1, click here

Over the past decade cricket clubs have worked hard to get their junior sections more formally organised with qualified coaches, good player to coach ratios and generally much better sessions for young cricketers.

Older junior cricketers get many years of weekly, structured, brilliantly organised training sessions with a qualified coach.

Then they start going to senior training.

Ah.

Cricket Show S4 Episode 20: Bamboozled by Spin

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PitchVision goes to the bowling alley this week, and we also chat about Irfan Pathan's actual bowling (not the ten pin variety).

And the mailbag is stuffed, as usually with your questions. This time it's all about a new leg spin variation and a crunch decision about when to decide to cricket as your career. We get a deep insight into Burner's journey along the way.

Stop the Insanity: Coach the 3 Patterns of Improved Running Between the Wickets

Can you imagine this at Manchester United's training ground:

Sir Alex Ferguson: "Robin! What are you doing?"

Robin van Persie: "Practicing my free-kicks Boss"

Sir Alex Ferguson: "Are you mad? You know that we don’t allow that! You're only allowed to take free kicks in matches. But make sure you don’t miss."

What Fountains of Wayne Can Teach You About Fast Bowling

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Being a rock n roll hero is a long way from ripping through batting orders, but the American band Fountains of Wayne seem to have found a link between the two.

Specifically the track All Kinds of Time, from their third album, gives an insight into the mind of a sportsman at the peak of his performance.

You should give it a listen

When you do, you understand what it's like to be perfectly in the moment and flowing with ease as if you are in complete control of the game: