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This site has now grown to a size where I can say for sure there are regular readers and regular commenters.

Thanks for being part of the harrowdrive community.

As this site continues to grow I want you to feel part of it. We are all interested in improving our game (or the games of others).

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Today's coaching tip is from guest poster Matt Homes.

Currently I am coaching a lad of county age group standard who you would say is primarily a bowling all rounder. He has good hand/eye co-ordination and general tactical awareness.

Even at his young age he has been through a number of development and county age group courses during winter programmes and therefore would have been drilled technically in many areas of the game.

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If you wanted to improve your catching I'm betting you would do some catching practice.

One thing you would not do is train each finger individually.

‘Finger training' is a bad idea because you are isolating individual components involved in catching without practicing the skill as a whole. You know already that your brain doesn't work like that: To develop any skill you need to practice that skill.

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Back in the mists of ancient history (the 1980's) the Soviets were kings of sport. Their state funded athletes became a huge experiment in maximising performance.

This included the development of periodisation: the planning system that most sports follow to this day, cricket included.