For a bowler it is crucial to have rhythm and to bowl with a consistent and repeatable action. For consistency with your accuracy, you need to ensure you have the consistency with your run up and bowling action.

What a day.. What an event.. What a game! Old Father Time, looking down from his lofty perch above the score box had never seen or heard the like at his old ground ...

Condoning drinking in an article that is aimed at increasing the performance of young and impressionable cricketers?

However good your bowling unit is, there will always be one bowler identified as the weakest link, and good sides will always try to make the most of these overs.

It is a split second decision: bowler or ‘keeper? Get it right and with a good throw you affect the run out. Choose the wrong end and the chance goes begging.

I remember those net sessions, years ago, when I arrived late and had to make do with whatever ball I could find in the bag.

Unless you’ve been living under a stone you will have seen Ben Stokes’s stunning catch at the Oval last week vs South Africa and you’ll continue to see it on the highlights reel of this World Cup

For much of the time that you spend fielding you’ll probably find yourself in the ring saving or trying to save the single.

When working with younger bowlers, we often see them bowling over and round the wicket with little or no idea why they are doing it, or how this can affect their opportunities of taking a wicket

It is not only junior players that find setting a field tricky. Quite often at club level you see basic errors in field placing which can result in unnecessary runs scored against the bowler.

Today at training, it became apparent that some of our U14 age bowlers were struggling to adjust to find the right line. ‘But it would have hit the stumps, sir’, was the general response to the leg stump in-swingers...

One of the main reasons that encouraged us to write our book, ‘A Leading Edge for Captains’, was our observation of the amount of control the junior coach has over the game, reducing the input the named captain has on the field.

George Munsey scored a 25 ball hundred for Gloucester 2nd XI the other day, smashing 147 in 39 balls with 20 sixes.

In our book, ‘A Leading Edge for Captains’, we look at the issues associated with entering a new dressing room and how a new player to a club or even a team within a club will need welcoming in and made to feel part of that team.

Almost all elite cricketers have a pre-delivery movement or a ‘trigger’ movement but why do so many feel it’s the correct thing to do rather than simply standing still?

Sam Curran's 4-11 (inc hat trick) in 2.2 overs aided in the collapse by the Capitals batsmen.

Here we are already! The clocks have gone forward, the first Championship matches are about to get underway, schools are breaking up and children and adults...

Amy Jones – England, Loughborough Lightning and Warwickshire – “It is definitely a good time to be involved in women’s cricket. It looks like we are going get more and more coverage and opportunities to play all around the world.”

You mention the name ‘Whispering Death’ to any cricketer worth his salt over the age of 40 and they will be able to conjure up the image of one of the most fearsome sights....

Heather Knight captained England Women to a 3-0 T20I series win over India, in India