Quick Tip: Don't Mistake Dreams with Goals
Quick, if I asked what is your goal for the cricket season, what would you say?
Maybe it's 500 runs, or 50 wickets. Perhaps it's getting selected for a higher team. Maybe it's something else totally.
These are fine ideas. They are not goals, they are dreams. So, you need to be careful with how you try and reach them. Goals and dreams are handled differently.
CRICKET JOBS: Physical Performance Coach - Cricket Australia (Aus)
Closing date: 12th March 2015
Cricket Australia (CA) is one of the nation’s premier sporting bodies, with a vision for Cricket to be Australia’s favourite sport. A key pillar of the Australian cricket strategy is to “Produce the best teams, players and officials in the world”. The Physical Performance Coach will play an integral part of the achievement of this strategy through overseeing a plan and method for the delivery, implementation and evaluation of physical performance programs across the breadth of Australian cricket.
CRICKET JOBS: Anti Corruption Manager, 2 posts - ICC (Worldwide)
Closing date: 20th March 2015
The International Cricket Council (“ICC”) is the global governing body for the sport, which administers all aspects of international cricket. Protecting the reputation and integrity of the game of cricket is a critical part of the ICC’s mandate. This mandate is implemented and reinforced by the Anti Corruption Unit (ACSU).
CRICKET JOBS: Player / Coach - Parley CC (UK)
Closing date: undisclosed
The role will last between 1st April and 3rd September.
Cricket Show S6 Episode 6: Cheeky Run Competition
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Mark Garaway and Sam Lavery join David Hinchliffe as the panel talk cricket coaching and playing. Adn there is great mystery in the show as Garas refuses to reveal his top secret tactic for running between the wickets.
If you can guess what it is, tweet or email (see below) and win a prize!
Mark Garaway wonders how important an inspiring speech is for a cricket team. Garas talks about it on the show and writes about it here. And the team is delighted to get some feedback from Emily, a young bowler who struggles to recover when she bowls poorly. It's a unisex problem, but it's rare to get a question or comment from female players or coaches. Please send more!
PV/VIDEO Weekly Highlights: All the Great Shots
Welcome to the PV/VIDEO Digest, your highlights summary of the weeks best videos from PitchVision Interactive
You can share these videos by email or onto facebook, and post your comments right here: From serious analysis to Friday fun. Here are the top videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.
Inspire Your Team by Using Golden Moment Speeches
How important is a speech to rally your players?
According to Jolyon Finck, it's crucial. Jol is the Director of Swimming at Millfield School and was the successful coach of the England Squad in the Commonwealth Games of 2014.
Recently Jol spoke about having to deliver those "Golden Moment" speeches to his athletes ahead of each heat, semi-final and final.
In total, Jolyon gave 57 speeches.
In these moments the coach aims to focus, relax, motivate or positively distract the athlete to help them get into their ideal performance state.
Who's Job Is Cricket Fitness?
Unless you are a professional or academy cricketer, there is noone responsible for improving your strength and conditioning. And that's hurting your game.
But fear not, there is a man on a mission to help solve this problem for you and for millions of players who don't get access to good training. That man is Ross Dewar.
Graham Gooch on Coaching Batting Technique
This article is an exerpt from the Graham Gooch Runmaker eBook available on PitchVision Academy. For more details, click here.
I want to talk a little about working on technique with a batsman, one to one.
CRICKET JOBS: Cricket and Sales Support Assistant - MCC, Lords (UK)
Closing date: 6th March 2015
Very competitive salary and excellent benefits package
Lord’s Cricket Ground is widely renowned worldwide as the Home of Cricket. Its retail business operates 12 months a year through the main Lord’s Shop that offers a wide range of souvenir merchandise, clothing and gifts for everyone and the Lord’s Cricket Store, central London’s only dedicated cricket equipment retailer selling a huge range of leading brands for players of all skill levels and ages