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Cricket Show 153: Lessons from Dravid’s Career

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There is plenty club and school cricketers can learn from Rahul Dravid. As the classical batsman has retired recently the team look back at his career and work out what we can take from his game into grass-roots level.

We also answer your questions about concentration and how to raise your personal fielding standards.

Cricket Show 152: Kevin Pietersen Interview (Part 2)

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As part of the launch of Kevin Pietersen’s Keep Calm and Smash It online videos and eBook, the show has a distinct KP feel.

The main interview is part 2 of the chat we had with KP (click here for part 1).

The questions section also has a batting bent; as six hitting and putting away bad balls on the back foot is discussed. Plus we look at how a top performing International like Kevin reviews past tours and looks to the future with intent.

Cricket Show 151: Kevin Pietersen Interview

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Kevin Pietersen’s new online coaching course – Keep Calm and Smash It – hits PitchVision Academy shortly. That means this week’s show is dedicated to the England batsman with the trademark switch hit.

The interview this week is a recording taken from the course with KP. Also, the team talk about The Big Switch (KP’s competition), skill vs. fitness, pre-season drills and how to bat well if you have lost form.

Cricket Show 150: Win Kevin Pietersen Prizes

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The team announce your chance to win a feast of Kevin Pietersen prizes this week. Click here to enter.

But it’s not all grabbing swag. There is also a host of advice from David, Burners and Mark Garaway. The importance of “bench strength” is discussed in the light of India, Australia and Sri Lanka in a very heavy period of ODIs.

Readers’ questions are answered on choosing a captain and how to perform again after a good performance. Also, ECB rep level coach Paul Williams guests with some advice on coaching talented youngsters from the club game. 

Cricket Show 149: Captaincy, Tail-enders and Indian Academies

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With Mark Garaway away in the West Indies, cocktail in hand, it’s over to Burners and David Hinchliffe to run the ship.

The show discusses how not to use PitchVision (as this video shows) and defining roles for players with a wide skill set. Irfan Sait of the KIOC Academy in Bangalore comes on the phone to talk about what it takes to become a pro.

Your questions are also covered on bowling to tail-enders and how to captain an inexperienced side.

Cricket Show 148: Gary Palmer

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Batting coach Gary Palmer joins the show to talk angles, technique and an alternative method that challenges current approaches to caoching.

Meanwhile Burner, Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe discuss the IPL auction and how the biggest name players are not always the most important (and how that applies to your team).

Plus questions are answered on finding form after an injury, how to stop playing everything off the back foot and how to sport a beard as well as Matt Prior (listen to the show to find out more).

Cricket Show 147: Iain Brunnschweiler

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Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe discuss batting collapses in the light of India and England’s poor performances on tour. Every team has had a collapse, so the team talk about ways you can at least try to prevent them in your side.

Iain Brunnschweiler joins the show on the phone to talk about his work with the England Under 17 players in a recent camp, and also his Inspired Cricket Manual.

Cricket Show 146: India vs Australia

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The team looks at some of the coaching issues surrounding the Indian 2012 tour of Australia. We discuss David Warner’s unusual road to the top and the difference between IPL and Indian national coaching methods.

Plus we answer your questions on the importance of psychology in cricket and what to do if you are a short fast bowler. Themes that are universal but both came from Indian correspondants this week.

Finally, our interview this week is Surajit Lahiri; highly respected club cricketer from Kolkota who has also played and coached in the UK.

Cricket Show 145: Behind the Scenes on the Kevin Pietersen Shoot

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With Burners on holiday, David Hinchliffe and Mark Garaway get to discuss what it was like seeing Kevin Pietersen up close during filming at the Oval. You can see the results here.

The team also discuss the Ranji Trophy final and rant about writing people off too early.

Plus we answer your questions on how leg spinners and wicketkeepers can work together and how to look after a young talented fast bowler like Pat Cummins.

Cricket Show 144: New Logo, New Season, Pre Season

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We’re back! It’s an all new Cricket Show. New logo and new theme tune and the advice is just as good.

This week it’s all about preseason training.

Burners, Mark Garaway and David Hinchliffe are back together to discuss how preseason has changed and what the new IPL coaches will be getting up to as they gear up for the latest instalment of the tournament.

Plus we answer your questions on swing bowling when it’s not swinging and keeping focused through a long, and sometimes hard, preseason period.