The podcast returns for 2017 with more discussion between Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe. This first show hits it's stride with a discussion on the new fielding average in the BBL.

The podcast returns for 2017 with more discussion between Mark Garaway, Sam Lavery and David Hinchliffe. This first show hits it's stride with a discussion on the new fielding average in the BBL.

Then, questions are answered on injuries caused by the front foot block and how to deal with fear of the short ball.

Listen in for details.

I love it when a new coach comes onto my team, it means that I can start stealing his coaching drills!

This is a guest article from Waqas Zafar: video analyst, cricket enthusiast and computer scientist based in Lahore. Read more of his work by clicking here.

In this article, I’ll be analysing a seamer from a cricket club who has bowled a total of 368 balls in the indoor nets. The deliveries were tracked on PitchVision's PV/ONE ball tracking over the course of a preseason in the UK.

Have you been watching the BBL?

Admit it, you have played a shot you regret.

You have heard the advice about how to become a cricketer: Get into a good Academy and the top quality coaching will send your game to the next level.

Whether you are in Delhi, Manchester or Sydney, the word “Academy” is shorthand for “excellence” and “success”. So, how do you get in there in the first place?

In my first few years as a coach I used to go along to coaching presentations and hear about the benefit of reflection and review.

Having been bought up in a “beer and chat” environment as a player, all this was a bit lost on me: A bit of utopian and conceptual thinking rather than real coaching practice that I could use with teams and cricketers.

Then I met Ricky Ponting!

Be it praise or criticism, tip or coaching, useful or useless; there are always people who want to give you cricket advice.

How do you sort the good from the bad?

In a world of many different and successful ways of playing cricket, how can we know what is good technique?