Bowling Variations
In normal one day cricket (not in the power plays), bowl to hit your length for the first four balls of each over.
Build up pressure early in the over, the batter wants to score, so you don’t let him score for the first part of the over.
The wicket taking ball ( the variation ) is typically the 5th ball of the over, if you don’t take a wicket with the 5th ball you bowl a ‘dot’ ball ( hit your optimal length ) again on the sixth ball so that the batter is kept at that end to hold the pressure on the batting team and hand it over to the bowler from the other end.
Variation for the 5th ball …
Width in the crease:
You can either go slightly wider in the crease and aim to bowl a full length for the batter to drive, caught at slip, gully or cover if he chases the ball and plays away from his body.
Even more potent if you can swing the ball away.
You can bowl an off cutter, like a fast off spinner, outside off stump to spin back and hit off or middle stump … or he mistimes and hits a catch to a fielder in front of the wicket.
If you know how to swing the ball, either in or away … bowl 4 balls that swing then put your fingers across the seam to stop it swinging and bowl straight for the LBW.
Palm ball : Put the ball deeper in your hand into your palm, but hold it with a normal grip, this will take pace off when you bowl the ball and often leads to the batsman mistiming their shot, inducing a catch, either in front of the wicket or behind.
Knuckle ball: Pull your fingers up on the seam so that you have less leverage, this is like the palm ball, it takes pace off the ball and induces a catch.
Those are some variations to play around with.
T20 Cricket: With the new ball in the power play let the shine and seam give the ball its variation, bowl fuller and aim to take wickets either bowled, LBW or caught. Use your bouncer occasionally to push the batter back off the front foot.
Outside of the powerplay make sure you change your pace up and down with variations and change lengths so that batters can’t just focus on one length to hit you off.
Practice – Practice – Practice to master these skills before using them in game time.
Rather master one skill at a time and use it well, than trying to bowling Liquorice All Sorts.
(from cricketlab)
Build up pressure early in the over, the batter wants to score, so you don’t let him score for the first part of the over.
The wicket taking ball ( the variation ) is typically the 5th ball of the over, if you don’t take a wicket with the 5th ball you bowl a ‘dot’ ball ( hit your optimal length ) again on the sixth ball so that the batter is kept at that end to hold the pressure on the batting team and hand it over to the bowler from the other end.
Variation for the 5th ball …
Width in the crease:
You can either go slightly wider in the crease and aim to bowl a full length for the batter to drive, caught at slip, gully or cover if he chases the ball and plays away from his body.
Even more potent if you can swing the ball away.
You can bowl an off cutter, like a fast off spinner, outside off stump to spin back and hit off or middle stump … or he mistimes and hits a catch to a fielder in front of the wicket.
If you know how to swing the ball, either in or away … bowl 4 balls that swing then put your fingers across the seam to stop it swinging and bowl straight for the LBW.
Palm ball : Put the ball deeper in your hand into your palm, but hold it with a normal grip, this will take pace off when you bowl the ball and often leads to the batsman mistiming their shot, inducing a catch, either in front of the wicket or behind.
Knuckle ball: Pull your fingers up on the seam so that you have less leverage, this is like the palm ball, it takes pace off the ball and induces a catch.
Those are some variations to play around with.
T20 Cricket: With the new ball in the power play let the shine and seam give the ball its variation, bowl fuller and aim to take wickets either bowled, LBW or caught. Use your bouncer occasionally to push the batter back off the front foot.
Outside of the powerplay make sure you change your pace up and down with variations and change lengths so that batters can’t just focus on one length to hit you off.
Practice – Practice – Practice to master these skills before using them in game time.
Rather master one skill at a time and use it well, than trying to bowling Liquorice All Sorts.
(from cricketlab)
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