Meet the Team
Find the right support for your game.
Cricket Mind brings together coaches and specialists with different backgrounds and areas of expertise — helping you find the person best suited to your game, your challenges and what you want to improve.
Our Team
Different expertise. One shared approach.
Each coach brings a different perspective, background and area of expertise — so the right fit depends on the player and what they need support with.
Briony Brock
Mindset Coach
Best for confidence, overthinking and performing under pressure.
Dr Steven Vaughan
Sport Psychologist
Best for deeper psychological support, performance anxiety and complex challenges.
Ben Silver
High-Performance Coach
Best for developing effective training and practice routines that transfer into match performance.
Jinal Mehta
Mindset Coach
Best for confidence, self-belief and developing a more consistent performance mindset.
Nathan Wood
Performance Mentor
Best for mentorship, career advice and leadership development.
Briony Brock
Mindset Coach
Best for: Best for confidence, overthinking and performing under pressure.
Briony is a sport psychology consultant and ECB Level 2 coach who helps cricketers perform with greater confidence, focus and composure under pressure. Her approach combines psychological insight with empathy and practical cricket experience, helping players build strategies they can use in both practice and matches.
Areas of expertise
- Confidence and self-belief
- Overthinking and performance pressure
- Emotional regulation
- Performance routines and preparation
- Responding to mistakes and setbacks
Selected credentials
- MSc Sport & Exercise Psychology, St Mary’s University, Twickenham
- ECB Level 2 cricket coach
- Progressing through the BASES accreditation route
- Middlesex Outstanding Contribution Award, 2023
- The Sun Grassroots Champion, 2024
- Experience supporting athletes across cricket, rugby, football and golf
Dr Steven Vaughan
Sport Psychologist
Best for: Best for deeper psychological support, performance anxiety and complex challenges.
Steven is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and Performance Psychologist at Lancashire County Cricket Club. He helps cricketers manage the psychological demands of performance with a practical, player-centred approach that supports both consistency and wellbeing.
Areas of expertise
- Performance anxiety and pressure
- Resilience and emotional regulation
- Injury setbacks and transitions
- Confidence and motivation
- Complex or recurring performance challenges
Selected credentials
- Chartered Sport & Exercise Psychologist
- HCPC registered
- Doctorate in Sport & Exercise Psychology
- Performance Psychologist at Lancashire County Cricket Club
- Experience across pathway and senior squads in high-performance environments
- Solution-focused brief therapy practitioner
Ben Silver
High-Performance Coach
Best for: Best for developing effective training and practice routines that transfer into match performance.
Ben is an ECB Level 4 coach with over a decade of experience across grassroots, talent pathways and elite cricket. He specialises in helping players improve the quality of their practice, prepare more effectively and transfer their training into competition with greater clarity and confidence.
Areas of expertise
- Training design and quality
- Practice-to-match transfer
- Decision-making
- Pre-game routines and preparation
- Skill development
Selected credentials
- ECB Level 4 cricket coach
- Former Head Coach, England Physical Disability Squad
- Professional and pathway coaching experience across Yorkshire CCC and Leicestershire CCC
- Expertise in skills coaching, practice design and player development
- Specialist in training under pressure, decision-making and performance routines
- Over a decade of experience supporting players from grassroots to professional level
Jinal Mehta
Mindset Coach
Best for: Best for confidence, self-belief and developing a more consistent performance mindset.
Jinal is a mindset coach and Sport & Exercise Psychology Consultant who helps cricketers manage pressure, recover from setbacks and develop practical psychological skills they can use in training and matches. Her calm, inclusive and athlete-first approach supports both performance and wellbeing, helping players feel understood while building greater clarity, resilience and consistency.
Areas of expertise
- Confidence and self-belief
- Emotional regulation
- Resilience and recovering from setbacks
- Pressure management
- Performance routines and psychological skills
Selected credentials
- Sport and Exercise Psychologist in Training (SEPiT)
- MSc Sport & Exercise Psychology, Brunel University London
- BA Psychology and Diploma in Counselling Psychology
- Member of the CASES Integrity Advisory Group
- Experience across cricket, football and tennis
- Supports athletes across junior, amateur, academy and elite levels
Nathan Wood
Performance Mentor
Best for: Best for mentorship, career advice and leadership development.
Nathan blends a background in professional cricket with high-performance coaching and mentoring. As the founder of Cricket Mind, he brings first-hand experience of the demands of the game alongside extensive work in player mentorship and international coach development.
Areas of expertise
- Performance direction and career management
- Player mentoring
- Coach and leadership development
Selected credentials
- Former First-Class cricketer with Lancashire
- Represented Young England
- ECB Level 4 coach
- Former Head of Coach Development for England Cricket
- Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Coaching
- Graduate of the UK Sport World-Class Mentoring Programme
Strength in Numbers
Different expertise. Joined-up support.
Cricket Mind brings together experience from professional cricket, high-performance coaching, international coach development and sport psychology.
That means players can access the kind of support that best fits what they are dealing with — from confidence, pressure and overthinking to deeper psychological challenges, practice design and performance development.
The right support depends on the player. The strength of the team is being able to match them accordingly.
Our Story
Want to know why Cricket Mind exists?
Discover the story, experience and philosophy that shaped Cricket Mind and the way we support players today.
