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My old coach used to say fast bowling was always about running and efficiency. He'd make us run our guts out, then bowl relentlessly and then run more. At the end of training the batters would be walking away with sore hands from slips training whilst us bowlers wouldn't have enough energy to...

Getting hit in the balls is the one you want to worry about. LOL!

I tend to have the same problem of only having a legside, although I usually bat at 8. I tend to stand dead-in-front of off-stump, to force the bowler to bowl wide or dead on the stumps. If it's wide, I'm not good at cutting, but if it's on stumps or short I can pull or hockey shot it away...

Out the back of the hand tends to screw with my shoulder - I use out the side of the hand, has the same effect, but still doesn't make quite a loopy as the vid above.

I usually open the bowling, and should a batter straight away start to dominate, I usually go round to switch it up. And slower balls....and effort balls. Can be effective if you bowl well enough with the right field. Variation in pace is a better weapon though, having an effort ball, and a...