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When should you bowl your backspinner?

Nothing stops you bowling it at any time, but then you are just bowling without a plan. And good spinners always bowl with a plan.

This week's winner of the Cricket Show podcast question competition is Shiv. He wins a free coaching course from PitchVision Academy.

The winning question was:

"I'm a good player of fast bowling but when it comes to spinners, I find it difficult to score off the good length balls. When I try to sweep I take the risk of getting out LBW and the close fielder's in, make it difficult to regularly take quick singles. What would you advise to keep my run rate going through that phase?"

Listen to the panels answer to his question here.

To enter your own question for the chance to win your choice of online coaching course send your questions in here.

Today's guest article from Darren Talbot; Professional coach, Managing Director of Darren Talbot Cricket Coaching and founder committee member of the Surrey ECB Coaches Association.

I keep hearing from clubs they are doing off season "nets" for their juniors (and seniors, more of which later).

The team get together from opposite ends of the world as David Hinchliffe is in Sydney, Burners is in London and Mark Garaway takes half an hour away from coaching at Millfield School in the West of England. Also, we are joined on the line from Podar Sports Academy in India in the interview. A global feel for a global cricket show.

Plus we answer your questions on playing good length balls from spinners and analysing bowling technique. And, as the title suggests, Burners considers writing a slim volume of cricket poetry.

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John wrote in with a sad tale of a cricket team in trouble, and a real problem:

"I am the captain of my club cricket team. After about 6 overs if we haven't taken a wicket or two most players start sticking their hands in their pockets and not really putting in the effort. The game just goes down hillfrom there. What should I do to try to lift the team's enthusiasm?"

We have all been there. Here is what to do.

I used to get annoyed watching the ODI game when a new batter would come to the wicket against a spinner and merrily knock 10 singles in 15 balls without any pressure.

The field setting and the tactics were so defensive.

The New ODI rules and regulations will change all that.

With 5 men as a minimum inside the inner ring, here's what will happen:

Planning is vital to coaching, especially if you are trying to cover a lot in a set number of sessions with the players you coach.

Many coaches do "in the head" planning, which is fine, but a lot of coaches prefer to get their ideas and thoughts on paper.

And a great tool for this is a simple session planner for group coaching: One sheet of paper that includes everything you need to cover during a session from saefty concerns, through the skills are are practicing to coach self-reflection.

Menno Gazendam is author of Spin Bowling Project. Get your free 8 week spin bowling course here.

We love to blame a bowler's action. As soon something goes wrong the everyone have something to say:

This week's winner of the Cricket Show podcast question competition is John. He wins a free coaching course from PitchVision Academy.

The winning question was:

"Should keepers keep in the nets when you have bowlers bowling to batsmen for part of their training?"

Listen to the panel's answer to his question here.

To enter your own question for the chance to win your choice of online coaching course send your questions in here.

In a recent article, MS Dhoni's method of finishing one day games was put under the microscope.

It's worth a read in itself, but I wanted to look at Dhoni's method from the viewpoint of a non-professional batsman.

Can a club or school player emulate this method in their games, or does the Indian's rare genuis and skill mean you would be foolish to try?