Looking, thinking and acting like a batsman will give you the confidence to bat well, whatever your batting skills.

Jonathan Trott averaged 89 with the bat in the 2010-11 Ashes series in Australia, rising to number four in the Test rankings. He's become famous for his pre-shot batting routine, making a mark with his bat, and then marking the same spot with his foot.

When you play a team you’ve beaten before you relax. You have figured them out.

You don’t need special strategies you can play the cookie-cutter way: win the toss and bat first. It’s in the bag.

Every cricketer can benefit from being strong. And every cricketer can get stronger.

Unfortunately, a lot of players turn away from the idea of strength because they assume to be strong you need to look like a bulky bodybuilder. It’s a reasonable assumption, especially when you see that most gyms base training around bodybuilding methods made popular in the 1970s and ‘80s.

A few days ago I told you about the changes happening to PitchVision Academy, today I want to give you the details, but don’t worry it’s still business as usual for us.

The PitchVision Academy pages, which have been providing coaching tips, performance analysis and interactive leagues since 2008, are getting a complete makeover, making it easier on the eye and faster to get around.

Burners is on top form, giving advice to a worried batsman based on the bloke who delivers the morning dairy. It’s unmissable.

But aside from yogurt-based metaphors, we also have interviews with Chris Peploe, who tells us the secrets of Ealing CC’s club cricket success, and new contributor Leigh Lowry.

There is no sight more pleasing than your yorker taking out a batsman’s stumps. Like a sniper you can use a single yet fatal blow to cause destruction.

And it’s a skill that when done at pace is worth a fortune because it wins you Twenty20 games (and there is no faster way to make a fortune than to show you can win IPL matches).

Something tells me you don’t have a good leg spin coach where you play, but that still doesn’t stop you bursting to get better as a leg spinner.

You have got a grip on the basics. You have played enough games to know what’s going on. But you don’t know what to do next.

In other words, you are stuck in a rut and don’t have anyone to turn to.

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Let me tell you about the backroom staff at PitchVision.

These are the unsung heroes deep in a bunker underneath the PitchVision offices who work night and day to keep the website delivering content to you.

Setting a total in a one day match relies on the ability of a team to judge what a good score is on that day. It depends on conditions and relative team abilities, all of which need to be assessed from match to match.

Yet in club cricket, a total of 200 always comes up as the ‘magic’ score that will lead to inevitable victory.

Everyone is a bad starter at the crease. Nerves jangle, the feet are not moving as fast as the brain and you are keen to get off the dreaded duck.

But some batsmen are better than others at getting off the mark. Have you ever wondered why players like  Jacques Kallis, Sachin Tendulkar and Jonathan Trott look so composed right from the off?

Here are the 3 main reasons, and how you can employ them in your games: