Mindset. Development. Performance.
Cricket Mind Podcast
Long-form conversations about the thinking behind cricket performance — from confidence and pressure to coaching, development and decision-making.
Beyond technique
What you can’t see shapes how you perform.
Batting, bowling and fielding are visible. Mindset, preparation, decision-making and resilience are not.
The Cricket Mind Podcast explores the thinking behind performance — what helps players handle pressure, grow in confidence, learn from experience and develop over time, while also examining the environments, relationships and coaching that shape that journey.
This isn’t a highlights show.
It’s a performance conversation.
What we talk about
The conversations behind better performance.
From the mental side of competing to the environments that shape development, the podcast explores the parts of cricket that often sit beneath the surface.
Confidence & pressure
How players respond when expectations rise and performance starts to feel harder.
Preparation & routines
The habits, thought processes and approaches that help players feel ready to perform.
Learning & development
How players improve over time, deal with setbacks and make sense of their experiences.
Decision-making
What influences the choices players make before, during and after competition.
Coaching & environment
How coaches, parents, teams and development environments can help — or sometimes hinder — progress.
The realities of the game
Selection, form, mistakes, uncertainty and the challenges players encounter throughout their cricket journey.
Meet your hosts
Experience from both sides of performance.
Nathan Wood
Ex professional cricketer and former Head of Coach Development for England Cricket. Nathan brings lived experience of high-performance cricket alongside years of work in player and coach development.
Briony Brock
A mindset coach with an MSc in Sport Psychology, Briony works with performers across cricket to help them understand confidence, pressure, focus and emotional regulation.
Together, they combine lived experience, psychology and coaching insight to explore what really shapes performance and development in cricket.
Listen your way
Watch or listen wherever suits you.
Catch every episode on your preferred platform — whether you want to watch the full conversation or listen on the move.
Latest episodes
Fresh conversations from the Cricket Mind Podcast.
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Take it into your game
Turn insight into performance.
If something you hear on the podcast resonates with your own game, our 1-to-1 mental performance coaching can help you turn insight into practical strategies you can actually use.