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 ...

Rock back and setting action You must have heard coaches and fast bowlers talk about the rock back action in the delivery stride. What is rock back? It is the leaning back of the body just prior to the bowler's delivering the ball. At the instance of the back foot landing for the ...

Release of ball - Pace Bowling In earlier lessons, we have discussed how the ball is gripped for the in swinger and the out swinger. We have also discussed the basic bowling action. But all this will be of no use if you do not learn how to release the ball correctly. You will do well ...

Grips for various deliveries To bowl well you need to learn how to grip the ball correctly. The various grips which shall be discussed in this section will neither guarantee success nor what was intended to be bowled. Because bowling skills largely depend on many components such as run-up, body position, front arm, wrist action ,etc., ...

The Open Action Last week we saw how to get into the classical side-on action for bowling. But if you have noticed over the years, most of the Caribbean fast bowlers have had an 'open' action. Players from the West Indies have always had a cavalier style of ...