Greg Chappell is a big fan of focussing on the outcome rather than the process of batting skills. Our friend Kelvin has been back in touch with me with a batting problem. This is what he said:

Cricket is a fun game to play. Especially when you are doing well, but sometimes it's not quite as easy to get up in the middle of winter to go for a run or make it down to nets twice a week.

We all have times where we don't want to do it (even me).

Whenever I get a little low in the motivation stakes I try these tricks to get me back into the swing of things.

Every now and again I’ll update you with my own schedule, just to give you an idea of how a club player can do it. Hopefully it will give you some context to my tips.

I'm back on the cricket fitness trail this week after last week's full rest. So it was up at 6am to get into the gym for an early start.

The cricket season is well and truly over now it's October. Still, here are a few links to make those dark evenings fly by.

• Run Fatboy Run sounds like a great idea for a lot of village players.
• Gimmie20 is one of them new fangled web2.0 sites but for fitness.
• Rahul Bhattacharya superbly parodies some of the less common sensical training methods that modern teams try. I hope I never go down the Buchanan road.

Imagine something so powerful it can literally increase your strength and burn off fat while you sleep, eat or surf the internet.

Imagine that it's free and that there are no negative side effects.

Imagine the possibilities: A leaner, stronger you would be able to hit the ball harder, bowl faster and be less tired at the end of a long session.

You can't help but admire Mark Ramprakash. Playing for Surrey, he finished the summer with an average of 103.54 and still had time to go dancing.

The Independent asked him how he did it (the batting, not the dancing) and his answers provoked some thought:

Captaincy is the hardest cricket skill to learn because the only way to get better at it is to actually be a captain. But if you have no experience, how are you going to get the job?
One way around this problem, and motivate younger players, is for established captains to hand a little bit of responsibility to his younger players for a short period.

This post is part of the Cricket Fielding Drills Week series. To go to part one click here.

It's the last day of the great big list of cricket drills. I thought it might be interesting to remember a key warning about using drills:

Be careful: Drilling in the wrong way is just as bad as not drilling at all.

This post is part of the Cricket Fielding Drills Week series. To go to part one click here.

Over the last few days you have learned a number of key fielding drills and games to improve your cricket.

I literally have no more drills that I can give you myself, so it's time to hand over to a few other places on the web where you can find free cricket fielding drills.

Today I have been reading Michael Vaughan's book 'Calling the Shots' about his time as England captain and something he wrote struck me.

Although he doesn't go into a lot of detail about the nuts and bolts of captaincy, he does give an insight on what it's like to be a captain, which is very like the post I did on club captaincy.