The pupils at Millfield are lucky as we have fantastic guest coaches pop in.

Last week, we used constraints based practice to develop batting skills. It’s one of the tactics that I have used in a back foot phase.

It’s really cold outside so we are confined to the cricket bubble for the winter. We have reached the stage of the batting programme where we are developing our back foot options vs pace.

Film reference coming up!

“It’s the way I play!”

Here comes the most ultimate name drop of all time!

Last week I had the great pleasure of working alongside England Test Match Batting Coach, Mark Ramprakash on the Level III Coaching course.

It's October so the winter is closing in around the UK. This causes a couple of challenges for the coaches and players at Millfield School.

Where does spin come from?

Ask any spinner or any coach this question and you can get a huge number of answers ranging from the pivot of the foot, through to the angle of the delivery stride.

This is largely to do with the open question. A better question is,

"which part of the body has the most significant role to play when generating spin?"

Here's what I think.

Every Friday, I head down to Millfield Prep School and work as an assistant coach for a good friend of mine, Head of Cricket Dave Beal. Dave played 1st Class cricket for Somerset and since then has helped developed countless 1st class cricketers in his time at Millfield.