20 years ago Caroline Foster was opening the batting for England.

10 years ago she was doing the ECB Level 4 coaching qualification..

Now she's one of the most respected coaches in the south west and working at a school in Taunton, with women's Hundred teams and in the boy's and girl's Pathway.

She's taken time out to talk to The icoachcricket Podcast about her work, her beliefs and how coaching is moving forwards....

Richard Johnson has been coaching for the last 18 years.

After a very successful time playing for England, Somerset and Middlesex, he's been coaching bowlers at Surrey and Middlesex.

He finished his role as Head Coach at Middlesex during last season.

He's been telling Tim Dellor about what he looks for when coaching young seam bowlers, what he thinks will happen in the Ashes, and what it's like to be sacked from a high profile coaching role.

Ian Renshaw is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities in skill adaptability and coaching.

Based in Brisbane and dad of Australian batter Matt Renshaw, he's honed his skills coaching his son, researching at universities, and working around the world over 40 years.

Ian has just released a book summarising his coaching beliefs. He's been sharing his thoughts on communication, constraints-led coaching and a whole range of other key issues.

Mark Garaway was part of Duncan Fletcher's coaching team exactly 20 years ago, when England Men's historic Ashes victory took place.

He's since been working in county and school set ups, and he's been a busy contributor to the ECB Coach Development programmes.

He met Tim Dellor at Millfield School, where he's Director of Cricket, to tell some stories about coaching over the years.

Kyle Hogg was a seam bowler for Lancashire, before retirement in 2014.

Since then he's worked in the entertainment industry, and is now back in cricket.

He had a spell coaching on the Lancashire Women's pathway, and now looks after the England Young Lions seamers.

He's back in the spotlight as the lead coach on the hit TV show "Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams". He's been talking about that series, and what he's learned on his journey back into cricket and coaching.

Martin Dighton, Senior Coach Developer at UK Coaching, talks to The icoachcricket Podcast about communication skills, and the importance of listening.

Martin explores noticing, observing players, and how building relationships and problem solving is central to good coaching.

Amongst other ground covered, how coaches react to their players winning and losing, and the importance of mentors for coaches at all levels of experience, is attention grabbing.

Peter Sturgess is a foundation stage coaching guru in football having spent 17 years working at the FA. Based in Wigan, supports Walsall, set up the Derby County FC Centre of Excellence, and has worked in lots of other football environments.

He has studied how best to accelerate the learning and development of young footballers, by modifying practices, and encouraging learning free from structure and organisation so often imposed by coaching systems.

Coach and coach developer, Iain Brunnschweiler has there are no shortage of stories

From overseeing Shane Warne's strength and conditioning at Hampshire, Brunchy spent several years heading up the England u17 programme before moving on helping Olympic fencing coaches win medals, and leading the academy at Southampton FC.

He continues to work for a variety of clients in sport and business and in this episode he discusses communication, getting to know players really well as people, and coach clarity of thought are the hot topics at Chievely Services.