Purpose: To practice close catching without the anticipation of an obvious feed from the coach.

Description: Fielders line up in a cordon behind the coaches left shoulder (if right handed). The coach feeds throws to the fielders by swinging his arm round. The coach should try and prevent the fielders from being able to anticipate the throw as it is hidden by his or her body.

I was shown that recently when I went to watch the four best amateur teams in the UK compete for the Cockspur Club Twenty20 Cup.

I have had a couple of questions recently on how to access the information contained in the PitchVision Academy archives. I thought I would clarify by giving you this simple guide.

The site is spilt into two:

• freely available content.
• premium online coaching course and ebooks.

There are several ways you can check out either or both, depending on how you want to find things.

I'm taking a few days holiday this week but don't fear. I have written several new articles that will appear over the coming days for you to enjoy. There is also a new miCoach Cricket Show this week.

in other words, you should not notice that I'm away!

However, if you are getting in touch for any reason, please remember it may take longer than normal for me to respond.

Everything will be back to normal next week.

As I am on holiday this week I have decided to go back to an old podcast I did in 2007. I spoke with sport nutrition expert Dr. John Berardi about a range of topics including:

• 5 ways to immediately improve your nutrition
• What to eat on matchday
• Tips on eating for health, appearance and performance
• The growing importance of fish oil

The links we discuss during our chat are:

It was my turn to make the teas one Saturday, so I was in the club kitchen buttering piles of bread. It was lucky I got there early because as I buttered away one of the selectors walked in.

"Hi David, you know you are skippering the 2nd XI today don't you?"

It was the first I had heard, a few hours before the start of play.

Every now and again I reveal what books are selling fastest through the Amazon store we have here on miCoach.

As you may already know, I get a small commission (about 4%) every time you buy a book, DVD or anything else through this site. I use the vouchers Amazon sends me to buy more books and help make miCoach better (and to keep it free).

So here are the latest bestselling cricket books through miCoach, in order of popularity:

Kevin and I return to answering your questions this week. If you have a question you are dying to have answered please contact us.

Some of the things we discuss include:

Purpose: To practice ground fielding, backing up and throwing under pressure.

Description: The wicketkeeper (WK) rolls the ball out to position 1. At the same time the batter sets of for a quick single. The fielder must throw down the non striker stumps to run the batsman out. He or she then runs to back of the queue at position 2.

You can have as many team nights out, boot camps or bonding sessions as you like. If there is no basic trust and understanding of responsibilities then the team will not gel, at least not in my experience.

Expertise from captains, coaches and senior players is required if a team does not come together naturally. Most players are cynical to traditional 'team building' techniques, even if they really want it to work.