Symptom: I'm bowling some nice balls, but every so often I seem to fire this horrible loopy waist-high full toss outside leg stump.
Suggestion: You are getting stuck side on, and trying to put oomph in and complete your action without, as it were, starting it. Your arm is trying to come over but your body is in the way and the only thing it can do is catapult out. The more welly you try and put in the more spectacular the full toss. Make sure you start your pivot *and keep going*. This doesn't require so much physical effort as mental effort to not let yourself chicken out as the momentum from your run up gets absorbed as you brace over your front foot. Don't get excited after bowling a good one, and then spoil the next one by exploding too soon. Try and spend as much time as possible over the front foot, and only 'explode' at the very very last minute, when you are balanced and as coiled and as high as you can go and are going to start to topple off balance.
Symptom: I'm bowling some nice balls, but every so often I seem to drag the ball short and wide outside off stump.
Suggestion: This is the evil twin of the Loopy Waist High Leg Stump Full Toss. You are getting stuck side on and trying to apply oomph from arm and shoulder without having pivoted round. Only this time, you are cheating and getting your body out of the way by collapsing slightly with the front leg and left shoulder. The solution is as for the last item, only make sure your left side and front foot do not collapse, but push you upwards with your shoulders level. Make sure your right-hand side, driven by your back foot, is pushing you forwards and through, as this will cause you to start to push round.
Symptom: I'm bowling some nice balls, but I keep bowling these balls that, although nice length and pace, and which turn and seem to have a bit of spin, are getting fired down the leg side.
Suggestion: You are starting your body rotation. This at least stops your body getting in way, which would cause the Loopy Waist High Leg Stump Full Toss or the Short Ball Dragged Down Outside Off. However, you are chickening out and not forcing yourself to keep going, so that you are completing the action and finishing the arm action when only partly round. Make sure as you start to pivot you *keep going*. As your body starts to resist going round you gently push harder and harder, ''coiling the spring'. Spend as much time and coil as high up as possible over the front foot before 'cracking the whip' and allowing yourself to explode through. Try and get up on your toes on your front foot as you pivot through and release (watching Shane Warne or Graeme Swann carefully on youtube is quite instructive) - the less surface area of your front foot you have in contact with the ground, the less friction will be there resisting as you try and pivot.
Symptom: The line's ok, it feels like I'm getting through the action and it's coming out of the fingers ok, and it's turning nicely if not spectacularly, but it's consistently short and lacking fizz. It's not a disastrously short length, but it just doesn't quite seem to 'get there' and sits up to be milked.
Suggestion: You are balanced and pivoting nicely, but possibly lacking height - particularly over the front foot - and whiplash from the arm as it comes through. Your trunk is not too collapsed but it feels cramped and slouchy - like you're bowling in a straightjacket - and doesn't have that nice, loose, braced posture. Get a bit more upright and high on the toes, particularly on the front foot, then use your back foot to push you 'up and over' as you bowl. If you are leaning forward then that will tend to give you a lower trajectory; the opposite will be true if you are leaning back.
Suggestion: You are getting stuck side on, and trying to put oomph in and complete your action without, as it were, starting it. Your arm is trying to come over but your body is in the way and the only thing it can do is catapult out. The more welly you try and put in the more spectacular the full toss. Make sure you start your pivot *and keep going*. This doesn't require so much physical effort as mental effort to not let yourself chicken out as the momentum from your run up gets absorbed as you brace over your front foot. Don't get excited after bowling a good one, and then spoil the next one by exploding too soon. Try and spend as much time as possible over the front foot, and only 'explode' at the very very last minute, when you are balanced and as coiled and as high as you can go and are going to start to topple off balance.
Symptom: I'm bowling some nice balls, but every so often I seem to drag the ball short and wide outside off stump.
Suggestion: This is the evil twin of the Loopy Waist High Leg Stump Full Toss. You are getting stuck side on and trying to apply oomph from arm and shoulder without having pivoted round. Only this time, you are cheating and getting your body out of the way by collapsing slightly with the front leg and left shoulder. The solution is as for the last item, only make sure your left side and front foot do not collapse, but push you upwards with your shoulders level. Make sure your right-hand side, driven by your back foot, is pushing you forwards and through, as this will cause you to start to push round.
Symptom: I'm bowling some nice balls, but I keep bowling these balls that, although nice length and pace, and which turn and seem to have a bit of spin, are getting fired down the leg side.
Suggestion: You are starting your body rotation. This at least stops your body getting in way, which would cause the Loopy Waist High Leg Stump Full Toss or the Short Ball Dragged Down Outside Off. However, you are chickening out and not forcing yourself to keep going, so that you are completing the action and finishing the arm action when only partly round. Make sure as you start to pivot you *keep going*. As your body starts to resist going round you gently push harder and harder, ''coiling the spring'. Spend as much time and coil as high up as possible over the front foot before 'cracking the whip' and allowing yourself to explode through. Try and get up on your toes on your front foot as you pivot through and release (watching Shane Warne or Graeme Swann carefully on youtube is quite instructive) - the less surface area of your front foot you have in contact with the ground, the less friction will be there resisting as you try and pivot.
Symptom: The line's ok, it feels like I'm getting through the action and it's coming out of the fingers ok, and it's turning nicely if not spectacularly, but it's consistently short and lacking fizz. It's not a disastrously short length, but it just doesn't quite seem to 'get there' and sits up to be milked.
Suggestion: You are balanced and pivoting nicely, but possibly lacking height - particularly over the front foot - and whiplash from the arm as it comes through. Your trunk is not too collapsed but it feels cramped and slouchy - like you're bowling in a straightjacket - and doesn't have that nice, loose, braced posture. Get a bit more upright and high on the toes, particularly on the front foot, then use your back foot to push you 'up and over' as you bowl. If you are leaning forward then that will tend to give you a lower trajectory; the opposite will be true if you are leaning back.