What guard do you take? Is it a ‘two please’, or ‘one leg’? Maybe you are a bit maverick and you would like a guard ‘outside off’?

Happy New Year! The drink is finished off, there only the unwanted coffee creams hiding amongst the discarded wrappers in the bottom of the chocolate box, everyone is back to school and work, it is cold, dark and wet but thankfully, the 2020 season draws nearer with every day.

There are times at school when you wonder what the point in learning the thing you are learning is. Whenever will you put this geometric information to good use again after your GCSE maths exam?

In the recently completed WODI series between Australia and Sri Lanka, there appears to be evidence of the Sri Lankan team making a concerted effort to ensure that the Australian women did not steal even an inch at the non-strikers end.

Sport needs to constantly evolve in order to stay ahead and remain interesting to those that play it and to the spectators that watch it, cricket is no different.

I have noticed a trend in international cricket that more and more batsman are being bowled.

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.