Cricket Show 77: Dealing with inconsistency
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Pat Legge is our guest coach this week as we talk about leg spin, scoring hundreds and taking wickets. Plus Gary Palmer gives us another batting tip and David is excited by the start of the summer.
5 Ways to be a better leg spinner
If I had to pick one type of bowler I love most it's the leg spinner.
As a keeper there is no greater pleasure than watching a good leg spinner bamboozle someone from behind the stumps. Plus the challenge of picking the variations is great fun.
But leg spin is not always encouraged as it should be.
Wickets are less spin friendly, coaches don't know how to teach the technique and captain's are unsympathetic to even good leggies.
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Picture the scene: A gloriously sunny day with a warm breeze rustling through the trees; Perfect cricket weather.
Walking out to the middle to examine the playing area, the bowlers take one look at the pitch and hang their heads while the batsmen rub their hands in glee. It's a bowler's graveyard: Hard and flat with short boundaries and a fast outfield.
Whistling down the mine: How to improve your bowling by going back to the old days
It used to be said that if Yorkshire (and England) needed a fast bowler they just whistled down the nearest mine.
These men seemed carved from granite. They bowled a thousand overs a season on nothing but a warm beer and a bag of chips at the close of play. They only ever got injured if they broke their knuckles on someone's jaw.
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Cricket Show 76: What's your in-season training like?
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Murray Creed is this week's guest coach answering your questions on a range of cricket coaching subjects.
Coaches: Don't ignore strength and conditioning for your young players
If you are not working on strength and conditioning with the players you coach you are missing a chance to improve their cricket.
Yet it's common to not bother. At club, representative and school level coaches avoid the world of fitness. They stick to what they know; skills work with a few high intensity fielding drills thrown in to gas everyone.
That's simply not enough. Not if you want results as a coach.
The 4 best exercises for cricket fitness (part 2)
In part 1 of this 2 part series we looked at the best lower body exercises for cricket. This article focuses on the upper body.
I'm not talking about going to bars and chatting up lovelies here. Pulling exercises improve your cricket.
How to exploit batting weaknesses: Low backlift
This is part of a series on How to exploit batsman's weaknesses. To see the other weaknesses click here.
The low backlift is seen at every level from school matches to Tests. Yet, at lower levels it's a batting weakness that can be used to your advantage.
PitchVision Spans the Continents
Momentum continues to gather under PitchVision, the cricket coaching product that has registered sales in 5 continents.