Back foot batting shots are best used when the cricket ball is pitched on a shorter length (further away from the batter) or when the wicket has a lot of bounce.

Through the videos and drills below your players will learn defensive and attacking shots (strokes), whether it's a drive, hook, pull or, if the ball is wide of the crease, a cut shot. If right handed a back foot shot will be played off the batsman's right foot with a step back toward their stumps.

These shots are used to make the bowler pitch the ball at a fuller length and allow less risk front front shots to be played.

Back foot batting shots are best used when the cricket ball is pitched on a shorter length (further away from the batter) or when the wicket has a lot of bounce.

The videos and drills below take your players through the range of defensive and attacking shots (strokes), whether it?s a drive, hook, pull or, if the ball is wide of the crease, a cut shot.

If right handed a back foot shot will be played off the batsman?s right foot with a step back toward their stumps. These shots are used to make the bowler pitch the ball at a fuller length and allow less riskier front foot shots to be played.

A form of dismissal is to catch the ball without it touching the floor after it has hit the batsman's bat or glove.

A wicket keeper will have gloves to help catching the ball, but it is illegal for any other player to have a catching aid. Specialist catching positions, such as slip fielding (behind the batsman), are especially important for fast paced bowling.

Our drills highlight the correct techniques your players should be using, such as how to hold their hands together, for low (waist and lower) and higher catches.

These are game scenarios under drill conditions and are most useful when practice in a certain discipline is required, either in batting or fielding.

They are good at strengthening weak parts of your team?s skills base by allowing you to focus on a specific area of concern.

Conditioned games are particularly good in creating a fun and competitive element to the practice drills and sessions, and offer your players a break from repetitive practice.

Bowling comes in two categories: either fast or spin (slow) bowling. The videos and drills below show the technique required to do both types of bowling.

Fast bowlers aim to get the ball to the batsman as quick as possible and have a longer run up. Fast bowling aims to either swing the ball toward (inswing) or away (outswing) from the batsman while it is in the air, bounce off the ball's seam to make it move when it hits the pitch, land the ball half way up the wicket (a bouncer) or at the batsman's feet (a yorker).

Slow bowlers look to put as much rotation on the ball as possible to make it move off the pitch toward the bowler (off-spin) or away (leg-spin). A spin bowler will try to vary their speed and how the ball arrives (its flight) to the batsman. Depending on the amount of spin the ball can move in the air, known as drift.

These shots are used when the ball is pitched on a fuller length and the batsman takes a step forward towards the ball. If right handed the batsman plays front foot batting shots from his left leg.

The correct technique for front foot defensive or attacking shot are shown in the videos and drills below. The shot selected depends on the line of the ball and how close to the batsman it lands (pitches). Attacking shots are divided into either a drive (straight, on-drive or off-drive depending on which side of the field the ball is hit) or a sweep, which is normally played to slow bowlers.

Generally the ball should be played along the floor when playing a drive. However, a lofted drive is used to clear fielders who are close to the batsman and is a tactic for pushing back fielders to allow quick singles to be run.

In cricket the way a player carries out ground fielding and throwing the ball back to his fellow players is hugley important.

Through these drills your players will become adept at stopping the ball using the standard ?long barrier? technique (see video below) which involves the fielder forming a barrier with the bottom half of their leg. Good technique leaves the fielder in a kneeling position.

Throwing involves getting the ball as quickly to a fellow player without it bouncing. The goal is to run a batsman out (hitting the stumps before they reach the crease). A good technique is to have a solid standing stance, feet slightly apart, shoulders facing the direction you want the ball to travel. When coaching young people advise them to point to where they want the ball to go after release.

It is often under appreciated the importance of injury prevention. Our injury prevention section provides a number of simple drills, requiring minimal equipment, that your players can do in their own time in order to minimise their risk of an injury. This will ultimately enable your players to play the sport they love for longer, without having to take painful timeout to recover.

This is when the batsman runs to the opposite stumps to score a single run. The number of times this action is completed after one shot determines how many runs are scored.

The term 'rotating the strike' is used when batsman do this in a game to take pressure off themselves, and these drills will ensure your players are prepared for this.

Key to the success of  running between the wickets is how well the batsman's fellow batter 'backs-up'. This is when the non-striking batsman walks out of their crease after the bowler has released the ball to give them less distance to run to the opposite stump.

These videos pinpoint the correct technique and proper way to conduct certain cricketing actions.