Do you bowl or coach leg spin? Do you want to improve your skills?

If you said ‘yes’ to that you want to act fast because I’m about to close both offers of free leg spin advice.

As you know I have been giving away free leg spin videos and articles to celebrate the launch of online coaching courses by Mohammed Haroon, our leg spin coach.

But we can’t do it forever so we are giving you a last chance to:

Let me be the first to welcome you to the exciting new PitchVision Academy pages, come in, take a look around and make yourself at home.

As you know, we have had the virtual decorators in to give the place a full makeover (if you are reading this in an RSS feed or email you can click here to check out our pimped ride).

This drill is part of the PitchVision Academy fielding drills series, for more in this series click here.

Purpose: A pre-match warm up that practices the skills of chasing down a ball in pairs and backing up.

Looking, thinking and acting like a batsman will give you the confidence to bat well, whatever your batting skills.

Jonathan Trott averaged 89 with the bat in the 2010-11 Ashes series in Australia, rising to number four in the Test rankings. He's become famous for his pre-shot batting routine, making a mark with his bat, and then marking the same spot with his foot.

When you play a team you’ve beaten before you relax. You have figured them out.

You don’t need special strategies you can play the cookie-cutter way: win the toss and bat first. It’s in the bag.

Every cricketer can benefit from being strong. And every cricketer can get stronger.

Unfortunately, a lot of players turn away from the idea of strength because they assume to be strong you need to look like a bulky bodybuilder. It’s a reasonable assumption, especially when you see that most gyms base training around bodybuilding methods made popular in the 1970s and ‘80s.

A few days ago I told you about the changes happening to PitchVision Academy, today I want to give you the details, but don’t worry it’s still business as usual for us.

The PitchVision Academy pages, which have been providing coaching tips, performance analysis and interactive leagues since 2008, are getting a complete makeover, making it easier on the eye and faster to get around.

PitchVision Academy Categories

To make it easy to search around the site, we have split PitchVision Academy up into categories.

Click on the links below to go to the latest content in each category.

Burners is on top form, giving advice to a worried batsman based on the bloke who delivers the morning dairy. It’s unmissable.

But aside from yogurt-based metaphors, we also have interviews with Chris Peploe, who tells us the secrets of Ealing CC’s club cricket success, and new contributor Leigh Lowry.