THE NEED TO CONCENTRATE All cricketers who have a burning desire to reach their potential and achieve their goals need to maintain awareness of all the changing situations before and during a match. Concentration will help him to focus his mind on relevant situations and not be overly affected by extraneous factors. The following are the ...
Nail the Manipulators I am really surprised why it took so long for the authorities to realise that some bowlers are using unfair means to swing the ball in international matches. Sarfaraz Nawaz, that ‘great’ fast medium bowler of the ‘seventies takes the credit for inventing and mastering this art of ‘doctoring’ the ball’ and it ...
Everyone has a sell by date, but it has to be handled well: Balvinder Sandhu By Arunabha Sengupta On February 1, 2012, 10:27 am
Unfair to ask 'Big Three' to retire: Balwinder Singh Sandhu By CricketCountry Staff On January 19, 2012, 3:51 pm Tags: Balwinder Singh Sandhu, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, India, Australia, AusvsInd, BCCI, IPL After Indian team’s disappointing loss in the ongoing Test series in Australia, questions have been raised about the future of the ...
BOWLING SKILLS : Stability of front arm When the front arm is pulled to the side of the body, it is blocked from moving any further and hence isolated. This stability of the front arm helps to stop the movement of the left side of the body and the right side of the body moves fast to ...
Bowling Action You must have seen that different bowlers bowl with different actions and get the ball to do things like swing, pace in the air and nip off the wicket differently. When you analyse all actions - at the test level or at the local club level - bowlers can be broadly divided into three ...
Have you been lucky enough to have watched Michael Holding bowling? He was called the 'Rolls-Royce' of fast bowlers because he had such a smooth run up to the wicket. It was effortless, accelerating and flowing. The Late Malcolm Marshall on the other hand had a short run up. He sprinted in and bowled at ...
Bowling Run Up - Speed Every bowler has his own speed of run up which is developed over many years of hard work in the nets and in matches. There is no hard and fast rule for speed of run up, either for a fast bowler or a spinner. No two bowlers have the same bowling ...
Running straight to the point of delivery Watch the run ups of all bowlers playing at the international level. One thing common among them, amidst diverse builds and diverse actions, will be that they run straight to the point of delivery. If you see the footmarks of the bowlers after a long spell on TV, you ...