David Hinchliffe defies his own healthy eating mantra to eat fizzy cola bottles while The Boss and Mark Garaway talk cricket.

The show includes the big announcements of Serious Cricket on PitchVision Academy and PitchVision's official partnership with Pace Bowling Australia Fast Bowling Clinics.

Toby Radford is our guest interview and we answer questions on improving net practice (including using BATEX) and how to make the most of your one chance at cricket trials.

A few weeks ago I was asked to do a session with a top class player who had lost his 'mojo' against spin.

When I asked him to tell me about his plans for our time together he said,

"I don't want to feel shotless when the ball spins, don't want to feel as if I am going to nick it to slip or short leg and I don't want to be stuck in the crease".

Paul wanted to know something:

"What 3 courses should be the first to be purchased to start becoming a good all-round cricketer?"

It's true, there are a lot of online coaching courses, and we often get queries about where to start.

The truth is that everyone is in a different place, so it's hard to pick out an all-encompassing 3 courses that will satisfy everyone.

But, judging from both sales and feedback, I have had a go at coming up with the big three essentials that should help anyone play or coach better cricket.

Becoming the Ranji Trophy’s highest ever run scorer takes relentless patience. You learn to bat the opposition out of the game by waiting and picking off the weak bowling.

Amol Muzumdar, who is in a see-saw competition with Wasim Jaffer to finish with the highest run tally, knows his game in this way. He has a strategy and he sticks to it.

But what if you are just starting out as a batter; how do you learn to play your own way and emulate this success in professional cricket?

Online coaching is what we do here at PitchVision Academy, which is why this week we are delighted to welcome Serious Cricket and their world-class coaches to the platform.

As you know, we are constantly seeking out talented players and coaches to give you the highest quality cricket coaching advice in the courses section.

Serious Cricket are in the same game and have gathered together 4 top coaches who we are adding to the fold here.

Serious Cricket have teamed up with PitchVision Academy to provide online cricket coaching from some top name coaches.

To celebrate the launch of the first course, Batting with Toby Radford we are giving away a free video on how to play the back foot defence.

Cricket is a game, but to do well you need to get serious. So who better to help you on your journey than the coaches at Serious Cricket?

To celebrate the arrival of Serious Cricket on PitchVision Academy You can get a free 10 week email-based coaching course that covers batting, fast bowling, spin bowling and wicketkeeping exclusively from the Serious Cricket coaches. Just enter your email below to get the goods.

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

The winning question was:

"I'm a fast-medium bowler and have read your guide on getting 5-wicket hauls but they don't seem to work for me. I have played about 20 club matches and a couple of matches for my college. But a 5-wicket haul always keeps eluding me. The maximum no.of wickets in a match for me has always been two. Even a 3-wicket or a 4-wicket grab would've made me happy. Please help."

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.

MCC President Philip Hodgson is interviewed this week by Martin Gleeson of Cricket India Academy. They talk cricket in Afganistan and Sri Lanka.

Burners plans his trip to Mumbai and David Hinchliffe and Mark Garaway answer coaching questions on taking 5 wicket hauls and the catching relationship between first slip and the wicketkeeper.

Slower balls and speed variations are important now more than ever where pitches are so flat that conventional swing bowling has a limited window of impact.

Here are 3 variations, as demonstrated by bowlers who have become masters of the slower ball.