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On one of those typical scorching hot South African summer days I was being smacked around the park. Not pretty.

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This week's winner of the Cricket Show podcast question competition is Salman. He wins a free coaching course from PitchVision Academy.

The winning question was:

"I want to know secrets of winning matches, because we every week but we have not won a single match for 3 months. I am frustrated being Captain, I accept all the responsibility, either the opponents are too good or we are too weak. But we play competitively we just lost by inches. How do we win?"

Listen to the panels answer to his question here.

To enter your own question for the chance to win your choice of online coaching course send your questions in here.

Cricket Development Officer - Adult Participation and Community: Cumbria Cricket

Closing Date: 25th September 2013.

A full time position is available with Cumbria Cricket Ltd.

You will be involved in Young People and Adult Participation, School, Club Development, and Player Pathway Programmes within a proactive and forward-thinking Cricket Company. The role will be responsible for the Community Programme in Cumbria and in part deliver the company’s strategic outcomes. This includes working within:

Head Coach: Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Closing Date: 30th September 2013.

One of the key objectives of Glamorgan County Cricket Club is to develop and maintain a successful Glamorgan cricket team, and the Head Coach is charged with the responsibility of preparing the Team in order to compete successfully in all ECB domestic competitions.

The chosen candidate will be the senior official of the Glamorgan 1st XI, and exercise full control over all other Team Management personnel. The post holder will be accountable to the CEO / Director of Cricket for the performances of the Glamorgan Team, and as such will provide the day to day leadership of all formats of the game, and in conjunction with the Glamorgan Captain(s), Team Management and players, will promote the highest standards of behaviour and discipline.

The role provides the necessary leadership and guidance to the Team so as to develop and maintain its place as a successful and respected First Class County. The post holder exercises this role in close consultation and partnership with the Glamorgan Captain(s) who lead the Players on the field, and the CEO / Director of Cricket in order to develop and deliver policies to create sustainable success.

Cricket Operations Officer - Representative Cricket: Cricket New South Wales

Closing Date: 23rd September 2013.

Cricket NSW aims to be the Number 1 State for Australian player production, attendance, fan passion, team success, participation, and investment in the game.

A wonderful opportunity exists to join one of Australia's leading sporting organisations. This role is a full-time contract position and runs until 31 March 2015. This role is based in the Cricket NSW office at Moore Park, and reports to the General Manager, Cricket Operations.

The Cricket Operations department provides services for various representative team, match and practice session activities. Its future activities will range in level from ICC Cricket World Cup matches during February and March 2015, down to individual team practice sessions.

The department also administers the Sydney Cricket Association’s many competitions, and supports the activities of various boards, committees and sub-committees comprising honorary officials.

Your primary areas of responsibility will include:

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Coming up on the world's best cricket coaching show: The team help Salman end his 3 month losing streak, Mark Garaway talks about David Warner and dealing with getting dropped, and we introduce RoboBurners!

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GM Amateur Cricket: New Zealand Cricket

Closing Date: 27th September 2013.

Cricket is New Zealand’s staple summer sport with more than 100,000 people currently playing the game, making it one of the most widely played sports in the country.

New Zealand Cricket is responsible for the administration of the game in New Zealand, with delivery of grassroots, club, school and representative programmes managed through six regional Major Associations. New Zealand Cricket also administers the New Zealand men’s international team, The BLACKCAPS and the women’s international team, The White Ferns, as well as the New Zealand A, U19 teams and emerging players.

As a result of a recent strategic review, we have created a new role of GM Amateur Cricket, reporting directly to the CEO. This is a full time role based at NZC’s High Performance Centre at Lincoln University.

The main function of the position is to ensure that Major and District Associations deliver agreed amateur cricket priorities, including governance, administration, financial and relationship management, and to act as the “champion” for all levels of amateur cricket in NZC and the wider cricket and sports community.

I recently received an email from a coach who has a plan to become a professional coach He asks what is the best path and process he can follow to help him meet his goal.

Here is my reply. This is the first part and I will finish off in the next article (link at the bottom).

Kartik reflects the aims of millions of teenagers with this question,

"I need your help for improving my skills. I am a wicketkeeper and opening batsman. How to I get into the Indian cricket team before the age of 20?"

Yipes. That's one heck of a goal.