📍 THIS WEEK’S RADAR

• ⭐ Prep = mindset. Roy, Mills, Morgan, Doull show how the best gear up to play.

• 🏏 Maxwell’s smother drive 

• 🎯 Back foot collapse kills pace — fix stride, fix alignment, free the action.

• 🧤 Straight out the Royals Playbook with Sid Lahiri

• 🧠 Evolve your coaching: meet the player, not the past.

• 💬 Strauss on “celebrity coaches”.

• 💼 This week’s trending jobs.

⭐HOT THIS WEEK

The Art of Preparation

Eoin Morgan and Simon Doull stopped by South Brave's training session and spoke to Tymal Mills and Jason Roy about their preparations ahead of a match. Coaches, players, fans - what can you take from this? How can this shape your preparation?

🏏BATTING LAB

Glenn Maxwell On The Smoother Drive

He's one of cricket's most destructive players and in this video, Glenn Maxwell shows us how to play his smother drive.

🎯BOWLING LAB 

Back Foot Collapse: The Momentum Killer in Fast Bowling 🏏

Back foot collapse at Back Foot Contact (BFC) is a common fault in young fast bowlers and it’s costing both speed and efficiency. When the back knee flexes excessively, the bowler’s centre of mass drops, momentum slows, and the delivery stride lengthens. This not only wastes energy but makes it harder to bowl over a braced front leg, reducing power transfer into the ball.

Causes include an over-long or high pre-delivery stride, excessive run-up speed, or a poor run-up angle. Bowlers who approach from too wide often have to redirect momentum towards the target at BFC, adding stress to hips and knees and prolonging time spent on the back foot. As the figures show below, the longer a bowler stays in this position — especially with the torso still behind the back foot — the more momentum is lost before moving forward.

Coaching focus: keep pre-delivery strides compact, align the final steps straight at the target, and train bowlers to “get off the back foot quickly” into front-foot contact. Efficiency at this phase sets up everything that follows — from front-leg stability to ball release speed.

🧤FIELDING LAB

Straight Out The Royals Playbook

High energy. Sharp skills. Coach fielding the pro way with Sid Lahiri — strategies you can take straight to your next session.

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🧠THE MIND GAME

Do Coaches Evolve With Time And With the Player in Front of Them?

The biggest mistake we can make as coaches? Thinking that the way we coached 10 years ago is still good enough today.

Athletes arrive with more than skill - they bring a story, mindset, learning style, and emotions that may be ahead of or behind their physical ability. The challenge for coaches? Evolve with them.

Sport, science, and player needs have shifted. We now know the adolescent brain develops into the mid-20s, modern environments affect focus, and decision-making under pressure can be trained. If coaching methods stay stuck in the past, players pay the price — with misread behaviours, lost confidence, and untapped potential.

Evolving as a coach means adjusting drills to how the player responds, factoring in mental and emotional development, asking more questions, and reflecting after sessions on whether you coached the person in front of you or just the version you expected.

The real question: are you coaching the sport, or the person playing it?

💡OTHER OPINIONS

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