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Cricket Show 76: What's your in-season training like?
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Murray Creed is this week's guest coach answering your questions on a range of cricket coaching subjects.
Coaches: Don't ignore strength and conditioning for your young players
If you are not working on strength and conditioning with the players you coach you are missing a chance to improve their cricket.
Yet it's common to not bother. At club, representative and school level coaches avoid the world of fitness. They stick to what they know; skills work with a few high intensity fielding drills thrown in to gas everyone.
That's simply not enough. Not if you want results as a coach.
The 4 best exercises for cricket fitness (part 2)
In part 1 of this 2 part series we looked at the best lower body exercises for cricket. This article focuses on the upper body.
I'm not talking about going to bars and chatting up lovelies here. Pulling exercises improve your cricket.
How to exploit batting weaknesses: Low backlift
This is part of a series on How to exploit batsman's weaknesses. To see the other weaknesses click here.
The low backlift is seen at every level from school matches to Tests. Yet, at lower levels it's a batting weakness that can be used to your advantage.
The 4 best exercises for cricket fitness (part 1)
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I'm interested in how to run faster, throw further, stay injury free, score runs and take wickets.
Because that's all exercises are; a means to an end.
As a cricketer, the best exercise in the world is useless if it doesn't help you play better cricket.
How to become a professional cricketer (Pakistan edition)
This article was only possible thanks to the expertise of former First-class leg spinner Mohammed Haroon, who provided the insights into becoming a professional cricketer from Pakistan.
It's difficult to become a professional cricketer in Pakistan.
With such a deep love for the game, everyone in the country seems to want to play at the highest level.
Competition is hot.
Cricket Show 75: Kabir Khan, wicketkeeping and batting concentration
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Nic Northcote joins the show to answer you cricket coaching questions on his specialist subject wicketkeeping. If you like his answers pick up a copy of Nic's excellent eBook: Wicket-Keeping: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering the Art.
The 4 biggest secrets of successful youth cricket
This is a guest article by Daniel Maddocks of T20Kids.com: Promoting Cricket for Kids. Daniel is an ECB Coach with experience in coaching young cricketers in the North West of England.
A healthy youth section is the sign of a healthy club.
How Watsonians CC make fitness training cricket specific
One of the fastest ways to gain an edge over the opposition is to improve your fitness because so few sides work on it.
But you don't want to waste your valuable time on fitness work that's useless on the pitch on matchday.