Keep the scoreboard ticking with this simple trick.

You may recall the excellent “King Power Hitting Drill” which was posted a couple of years ago.

If you have coached cricket to young players you will know that not everyone listens intently to your every word.

The nightmare scenario is a group who seem bent on destroying any chance of developing skills. It's frustrating because, as a good coach, you are aiming to make every session fun as well as instructive.

Yet someone finds a way to be disruptive to your plans: Asking irrelevant questions, getting bored after one try and trying to distract others, I even once saw a kid so unfocused he walked across the pitch as the bowler was bowling (fortunately with a soft ball)!

The standard advice is "make it fun", but what do you do when your best efforts to make things fun are disrupted?

Who has the time or need for Neuro-Lingusitic Programming? It's much better to just go and hit cricket balls.

"How did you go at the weekend?" I asked the batsman I was coaching.

Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe talk cricket scoring, scouting, streaming and coaching. The pair discuss PV/Match from a coach perspective, recruiting new players and coaching cricket to people who may have not even heard of the game!

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How can you improve on perfection?

The ICC Women’s World Cup Final was a perfect and fitting end to an exceptional tournament.

Your team is full of talented all-rounders. Someone needs to fill the final place. What do you do?

In cricket, sides are always changing. To survive, every team needs to scout and recruit players.

But that's difficult.