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 mistime...
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