About CPL
The Cricket Performance Lab is a team of multi sport professionals that is dedicated to the relationship between athletes and bat.
We have taken 20+ years of golf and baseball experience studying how athletes interact with the implement they are swinging and applied it to cricket.
Our mission is to help players find the perfect blend of performance and preference to maximise in game performance.
Members of the Cricket Performance Lab team are currently working closely with the multiple Major League Baseball clubs to help them through in game data analysis and detailed biomechanical testing for their hitters.
MEET THE TEAM
Liam Mucklow
Co-Founder
Liam is the founder of both Baseball Performance Lab and The Golf Lab. Liam developed The Golf Lab into one of the world’s most recognized applied golf research companies. He has taken the skills and expertise from the golf industry and applied them to baseball.
He is a three-time presenter at both the World Scientific Congress of Golf and the World Golf Fitness Summit. His presentations topics have ranged from findings on human movement and equipment performance studies to technology application for game improvement. Liam is the creator of Golf Lab Certified, a platform that has trained over 1000 coaches in 20 different countries on best practices for coaching with technology and performance-based club fitting. He currently sits on over 10 advisor boards to golf’s National governing bodies and golf technology companies. Liam is a member of the 2018/19 Golf Digest’s Top Young Teachers in America list and is a two-time award winner with the PGA of Canada. Most recently The Golf Lab has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Clubfitters in North America, on Golf.com.
Shannon Young
Co-Founder
Founder of Young Gun Cricket, Shannon is regarded as one of cricket’s most modern and innovative Coaches. A deep thinker about the game, Shannon created YoungGun Cricket and has changed the way the game is coached and played within one of the world’s leading cricket training facilities.
As a Level 3 High Performance Cricket Australia accredited Coach, Shannon has a wealth of playing and coaching experience in High Performance, Premier Cricket, School cricket and local club environments and is widely respected for his passion for the game and an inherent knowledge that he shares with players he mentors at every level of the game.
Shannon has drawn on over 20 years of coaching and playing experiences from around the world to design the Young Gun Coaching philosophy, direction, high performance academies and individual sessions that are the cornerstone of long term player development and complete game understanding.
While a traditionalist at heart, Shannon has embraced the modern age of cricket and has been at the forefront of thinking outside the square when creating a hybrid approach to ensuring the basic foundations of cricket are merged with the new age of the game.
Chris Hall
CO-FOUNDER
A Cricket Australia accredited level 3 High Performance Coach, Chris is an exceptional character with a true love for the game and helping the next generation of cricketers.
Following a successful county career with Lancashire in the north of England Chris made the move to Melbourne where he has held premier coaching positions with Casey South Melbourne as well as Specialist roles within the Cricket Victoria pathways, Caulfield Grammar, Frankston and Kingston Hawthorn.
Chris has built a reputation not just as an incredible coach, but a personality that enhances the experience of everyone he comes in contact with. Chris has built a reputation not just as an incredible coach, but a personality that enhances the experience of everyone he comes in contact with.