IPL Coach, Monty Desai is running a five day specialised Twenty20 bowling camp in Mumbai, powered by PitchVision ball tracking and video technology.

Running daily between 28th December 2015 and 1st January 2016 at the Venus Sports Academy, Goregaon (West), Mumbai, the camp is designed to improve Twenty20 bowling skills and help players take the next step to become a cricketer (ages 16 and over).

Iain Brunnschweiler is on tour, coaching England Under 19s in Sri Lanka. This is the second part of the diary, you can read part one here.

After this epic case study article, we got a comment from Facebook saying, "You could realistically be drilling/bowling close to 500 reps per week, which would get improvement.". Yet our case study players averaged a mere 38 reps per week, despite putting in 20 hours of sessions. The highest in any one week was 114. Miles away from 500.

Have we wasted our time?

More importantly, are you wasting your time if you can't put in 500 reps a week?

We had a wonderful throwing based question from Peter on the podcast recently. Peter was coming back from injury of the shoulder and looking to build a throwing technique which would take pain away from that area.

I suggested that he made his throwing action more efficient. This increases power and significantly reduces the chance of throwing injury. So, what does this look like?

When training for difficult operations, the US Navy SEAL commanders insist on "situations that are exponentially more stressful, chaotic, and dynamic than any combat operation".

They train hard so they can win easy.

This is a superb principle for cricket too.

Iain Brunnschweiler is on tour with the England Under 19 side Sri Lanka. Here's his diary: It's a mixture of great stories and lessons for players and coaches at any level.

Over the last 10 weeks, eight cricketers have been conducting an experiment in improving their cricket. Today, I want to give you the results of that hard work.

This is both a story and an evidence-based piece of research. There are lessons to be learned about every aspect of cricket coaching; how to improve, how long it takes to see changes, how to manage unexpected situations, dealing with people and dealing with your own mental game. There's a tale here for you that has taken well over 30 hours to construct.

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

The winning question was,

Closing date: 18th January 2016

The Hampshire Cricket Board is the overall governing body for Recreational Cricket in the county. Its aim is to ‘grow and improve the game to provide a cricketing future for all’. 

David Hinchliffe is joined by Sam Lavery and Mark Garaway to discuss breaks; when to have them, why you need them and how to manage them to get the best from them.

Then, listeners questions are asked about grips and helping a young batsman expand his game to be more assertive while maintaining good technique. Excellent questions both.

Download and listen now.