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CRICKET JOBS: Staffing Manager - Lancashire CCC (UK)

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Closing date: undisclosed

 

Staffing Manager 6 month contract (with view to permanent) Salary commensurate with experience.

CRICKET JOBS: S & C Coach - Glamorgan CCC (UK)

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Closing date: 12th September 2014

Position: Strength and Conditioning Coach

Department: Cricket

Accountable to: Head Coach

1. Job Summary

The aim of the Glamorgan sports science and medicine strategy is to optimise the Club’s best players’ availability and performance through the provision of outstanding sports science and medicine services.

CRICKET JOBS: CDO - Cornwall Cricket (UK)

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Closing date: 15th September 2014

 

Salary – (£18,000 - £22,000) Hours: 37 hours per week (flexible)

To coordinate and deliver key aspects of the player pathway from the management and delivery of Chance to Shine, player retention programmes and disability cricket and supporting the wider club network.

Cure the Mid Season Slump with These Simple Tips (Part 2)

Last week we looked at a couple of trusted methods to turn mid season slumps into season ending purple patches.

But keeping a team firing right until the end of the summer is tough. The run in can seem endless, especially with poor form to cast doubt on ability. If last weeks strategies aren't completely doing the job then these additional upgrades will get your players right on track.

What Facebook Teaches About Cricket Advice

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"The worst vice is advice" - Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate

There is a strange thing that happens on the PitchVision Academy Facebook page, and it teaches something about human nature that you can take into your cricket.

 

You see, every day I post a video of a player using the PitchVision system from the thousands that hit our servers and here's the thing;

Stay Focused During Boring Nets with a Competitive Edge

I was chatting to Matt Dawson - Head Coach at Cricket Asylum - about the problem of young net bowlers "messing about".

I'm sure you recognise this: The session starts well but as attention span wanes, young bowlers tend to start entertaining themselves. The try to distract each other, run in while finishing a conversation or decide to "bowl leg spin" all of a sudden (and it goes into the side netting).

Of course, fun is a key aspect of training - especially in teenage players - but training time is limited and for most the goal is also to get better at cricket.

So how do you deal with it?

Matt's answer was insanely simple.

Drills to Get You Out of the Bowling Machine Blues

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Coach and county cricketer Chris Watling returns with another article, this time on bowling machines.

Bowling machines are not always good.

We all like to get on the machine and smack 3 or 4 buckets of cover drives. It's good for confidence, it's good to feel the ball out of the middle of the bat and it puts you in a good frame of mind.

Is it actually doing you any good?

The reality of it is, you know you can hit a cover drive well most of the time. How much do you really need to spend your limited practice time doing something you can already nail?

How much are you getting into position the ball even shoots out?

Isn't it better to expand your game by taking yourself out of your comfort zone?

Cricket Show S5 Episode 32: Free Weight vs. Bodyweight

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What is best for fitness training, bodyweight or machines?

That's one of the questions in the show that has been put to the team of Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe. The answer is in the show, along with some cooking tips from Lavers.

Plus the team discuss the importance of the hips in spin bowling, and how to get rotation through the hips and into the ball to give it a rip.

All that and much more, ready for download. Listen now!

PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights: Making Things Happen

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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 JOBS: CDO, Adult Participation - Surrey CB (UK)

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Closing date: 17th September 2014

 

Cricket Development Officer (Adult Participation – 16+ and Inclusion)

 Salary: £25,000-30,000 per annum