Jarred Opperman was on a path to fast bowling glory. He was in the Natal team, and the speed gun was showing the high 130s. He took pride in knowing that the batsmen were afraid of his speed.

“There is no better feeling in the world. The battle is already half over.”

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 5 videos uploaded from PitchVision systems around the world this week.

David Hinchliffe, Mark Garaway and Sam Lavery get together to discuss field settings. How much is instinct, and how much is planning? Then the team delve into the question of how we measure cricket thinking, and how that links back to whether you should have a mid off or an extra slip.

Plus in the mailbag reader's questions are answered on how to throw further, and the coaching language used when batting against a bowling machine.

And, don't miss Gara's soapbox, it's a cracker!

After many months of hard work, the CSA High Performance Centre in Pretoria, South Africa ihas opened.

The Proteas team were on hand throughout the opening by CSA General Manager Corrie Van Zyl, and the honour of bowling the official first ball went to international quickie, Morne Morkel.

I have known, worked with and admired Graeme Smith for many years. Over the years he taught me some valuable coaching lessons.

I first met "Biff" when he was a 18 year old lad straight out of school. He played some club cricket in the UK and was in my Hampshire Board XI for a few games. I was impressed with his maturity and sense of fun; less impressed with his "grubby" technique.

The key lessons that I learnt from the great man are:

Getting up 30 minutes early might be all you need to improve your cricket.

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We are looking for sessional cricket coaches, Male & Female, who would be interested in helping us to get more young people playing cricket.