Sky Cricket Masterclass: Sam Billings gives wicketkeeping demo

Sky Sports Cricket has brought you a host of masterclasses so far this summer with Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and Daniel Vettori displaying their batting and/or bowling skills.

The attention turned to wicketkeeping recently, though, as Kent and England gloveman Sam Billings gave a fascinating demo at Canterbury during a guest commentary stint for Sky Cricket.

Billings' former Kent colleague and now Sky Sports expert Rob Key joined him at the St Lawrence Ground to see how the 26-year-old looks to keep to seamers and spinners.

Watch Billings' Masterclass in the video at the top of the page, where he showed some of the methods listed below - any aspiring young wicketkeepers, and some old ones, too, should take note!

• Why watching the ball all the way into your gloves, keeping your hands as open as possible, and catching out in front of you is crucial.
• Why the fingers-down approach works in England with the ball generally bouncing waist-high and why you should go up with the ball.
• The adjustments he makes when keeping to in-swing and out-swing bowlers and why you should not stand too wide.
• Why keepers should always expect batsmen to miss the ball and why he looks to move the ball back towards the stumps after taking it.
• Why it can be a "nightmare" when batsmen have different backlifts.

Billings, who received deliveries from Kent spinner Imran Qayyum, also detailed why MS Dhoni is so good keeping for India on spinning tracks.