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Use the 4 tent pegs bowling drill to improve your pace and accuracy

The 4 tent pegs fast bowing drill has been designed by Ian Pont to improve fast bowlers at all levels.

The drill is performed without a ball to allow the bowler to get the right feel for the 4 key positions of the bowling action.

This video is a free sample of Ian Pont's How to Bowl Faster online training course. If you like the video, you can purchase the rest of the course and get instant access.

Cricket Show 60: Ashley Metcalfe and our first guest co-host

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With Kevin away the show welcomes Peter Harold, video analyst from Ryan Maron's School of Cricket Excellence in South Africa as our very first guest co-host. David and Peter talk about coaching and answer your questions.

 

5 Ways to convince the skeptics to change tactics and training

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As a miCricketCoach reader you know more than most club cricketers about how to improve your game. But what about the rest of the team?

In my experience cricketers are a conservative lot. There are still plenty of players who look at you out of the corner of the eye if you suggest gym work, or baulk at the idea that a warm up needs to be more than a quick cigarette and a couple of arm whirls.

How the humble berry can save your cricket

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How can a berry improve your cover drive?

Of course, it can't. Not even a strawberry. Not directly anyway. But what it can do is represent something bigger than itself.

I see the berries as a whole attitude. A way of life even: The way of the berry. And this way is the fastest route to becoming a better cricketer.

Cricket training secrets: Foam rolling

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This is part one of a series of tips that are often overlooked by traditional cricket coaches. All are proven to give you the edge but because they don't originate in the cricket world have not been picked up by the mainstream of players yet. That's why we are calling the series "training secrets". This secret is about foam rolling.

Now cricket clubs and coaches can make money from PitchVision

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Grass roots cricket has been given a double boost with PitchVision. The cricket coaching product can both help to improve cricket skills and make money for the club, school or sport centre where it is installed.

Do you make mistakes with your batting trigger move?

This is part 3 of a 3 part series on trigger moves by Gary Palmer. To go to part 1 click here, to go to part 2 click here

In this free video Gary Palmer shows you The common mistakes batsmen make when making a trigger move. Get it wrong and you can end up in a poor position that is more likely to get you out.

Cricket show 59: Secrets of success

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It's Kevin's last show of the year as he goes off for his holidays so the show is packed to the rafters. Gary Palmer is back with more batting tips and Alan Crouch, Head of Performance at Wiltshire cricket. We also answer questions on:

Stop playing cricket: Why too much of a good thing can be a bad thing

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If you want to be a better cricketer you better play lots of cricket. That's a no brainer. But what if too much cricket leaves players failing to reach their potential?

It might upset some of the players of yesteryear, but the research shows that you can play too much cricket (or any sport) when you are growing up.

Specialising too early reduces ability.

I remember when this was all fields

Find out how fast you can bowl with PitchVision

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Bowling speed is a constant source of discussion in club cricket. How much faster are the bowlers you see on TV compared to the men you face on the weekend? How fast is that 15 year old talent in the club compared to 15 year olds in the rest of the region, country or world?