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Help with Cricket Research with This Short Survey

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If you are a cricket coach, researcher Habib Noorbhai at he Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa is asking for your views.

"Play with a straight bat."

Everyone who has played cricket has heard this advice: Your bat is lifted back towards the stumps with the elbow up, pointing in the direction of the ball.

Or is it?

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights: One Hand Batting Drill

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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 videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

Cricket Show S6 Episode 20: He Never Played First-Class

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It's often assumed that to be a good coach you have to have playing experience at that level. the team of David Hinchliffe, Makr Garaway and Sam Lavery discuss how important it is to be a first-class player to be a first class coach.

Plus, there are questions about improving your play outside off stump, and a a finisher who is working on the ramp shot and is having a problem. What advice will the team have for the youngster?

Listen to the show for half an hour of cricket fun.

Wicketkeeper Standing Back Drill: Relevant, Functional and Challenging

The challenge with any wicket-keeping drill is to make it relevant, functional and challenging.

Last week, we were doing a standing back drill using the Katchet board. I was throwing the ball onto the board as hard as I could to challenge the two keepers. The keepers are both County Age Group players and in one of the cases, an England International.

It soon became apparent that both were not being challenge sufficiently by the drill and that my shoulder was getting warmer and warmer. We needed to solve a problem.

That solution was the Sidearm. Since a recent Sam Lavery article on coaching kit, I have noticed more players have purchased Sidearms. It's great to see sessions where players are practising batting in pairs against the sidearm. It’s a brilliant piece of kit.

I decided to ease my shoulder by attempting to throw the ball onto the Katchet using a Sidearm. The results were awesome.

Here's my view,

Let's Stop Being Afraid of the Bowling Action and Start Getting Better

Let's all stop being afraid of bowling actions.

Coaches are increasingly afraid of coaching because of a culture of fear in cricket. Bowlers live in terror of ruining their natural action.

I argue we are all wasting a chance to improve both pace and accuracy. We just need to shake off the fear. You can see it in the media. In this article about James Harris we are told,

Graham Gooch on Batting with Confidence

Confidence is slippery. You want it but how do you stop all those negative thoughts? In this video Graham Gooch shares his methods for breaking through doubt and walking to the crease with confidence:

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Cricket Show S6 Episode 19: Director vs. Coach

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What's the difference between a Coach, a Director of Cricket and a Director of Coaching? In the show, David Hinchliffe, Mark Garaway and Sam Lavery discuss the topic from school to international level.

Plus, there are a couple of listener's questions answered - and a prize won - by the team. The first asks about the best way to lift up your bat, and the second is a query about bowling around the wicket. As always, it's Gara's that takes it to the next level with some more #garasgold

Listen to the show now to get all the banter and coaching advice.

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights: Missed out, Is It Out?

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CRICKET JOBS: Digital Video Producer - ECB (UK)

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Closing date: 2nd June 2015

CRICKET JOBS: Digital Content Editor, England - ECB (UK)

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Closing date: 2nd June 2015

Job Summary the Digital Content Editor (England) will be responsible for delivering high quality news, features and reporting (audio, video and copy) from the England camp to enhance all ECB digital channels and help grow our reach. This person will work to enhance the quality, timing and engagement of all England content.