This article has been written by the contributions of the community (and edited by the Director of Coaching). My thanks go out to Munwar Hussain, Rutej Mehta, Tev, AB, Kerron Ryan, TonyM, nurav_cool, shivbaba,  AjayBP, Coxy, Robin Collins and Paul Williams for their contributions.

In cricket we are obliged to give it our best in the field for a full innings, which is significantly more time than we spend bowling and almost always more than we spend batting. We can approach fielding from several angles.

Last week I asked for your thoughts on ways to become a better fielder. The best tip (chosen by me) wins a prize.

I’m happy to announce the winner is AB with a brilliantly argued case for shying at the stumps.

The competition was hard fought and a high standard, so watch out for more Ask the Readers soon!

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

"Why is it bad to shine a ball with sweat? What is the alternate solution to shine it?"

Listen to the panel’s 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. 

You are certainly not alone. Everyone who has played cricket wonders how good they really are.

Some people take that wonder and run with it. Doing everything right to give themselves the best chance of success. Others take that wonder and think they are doing things right.

But the chances are that you are making one of these classic mistakes and it’s railroading your efforts to become a cricketer.

The practice of shining the cricket ball for maximum swing has moved on a lot from the days of a quick rub on the bowler’s trousers. These days it’s an art and a science.

So this week the team discuss how to shine the ball and the importance of a "Team Shiner" in the mailbag. Other topics on the table in the show this week for Mark Garaway, Burners and David Hinchliffe are the role of franchises in T20 player development, how to bat down the order and how to get sneezed out.

Cricket nets with built-in instant feedback on your bowling sound like something from the distant future. In fact, that is exactly what is happening now at the refurbished Taranaki Cricket Association's indoor training centre in New Zealand.

This guide for young rep level cricketers aged 11-18 is of a series of introductory guides to PitchVision Academy, for the full list click here.

 We all have to field, and being a good fielder brings the advantage of getting ahead of others: Selectors tend to pick the better fielder in close match ups.

If you are passionate about cricket, you are passionate about being the best fielder you can be, so how do you do it?

And that is my Ask the Readers question for this week: How do you improve your fielding?

On the cricket show this week we talk spin bowling in India and Burners tells us all about the scourge of the GP in modern cricket.

There are questions on getting your chance to play, and how to rotate the strike, plus we almost get some gossip from Mark Garaway… almost.

A brand new, dynamic age-group tournament - the Delhi Premier League (DPL) - has completed trials with aspiring young cricketers this week. With a future IPL contract in mind, over 25,000 9-19 year old passion-fuelled cricketers applied. PitchVision was essential to the selection process.